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Nobel winner Elie Wiesel continues to remind us of the brilliant possibilities of the philosophical and political novel; Eric Jay Dolin returns with a rich, highly readable story of America's first voyages to the Middle Kingdom; Newbery Medal winner Laura Amy Schlitz delivers a gloriously intricate multi-voiced gothic fantasy; and more
Hollywood operators and creative washouts collide in Jess Walter's superb romp; Science writer Sam Kean impressively renders esoteric DNA concepts accessible to lay readers; Newbery Medalist Rebecca Stead explores the dimensions of friendship in an intimate Brooklyn setting; and more
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Rajesh Parameswaran marvels with an inventive and witty debut story collection; Inside Job director Charles Ferguson provides a concise, cogent assessment of the 2008 banking disaster and how the fallout has affected the country; Jim Murphy and Alison Blank pen an engrossing biography of tuberculosis, illustrating it with a wealth of eye-opening archival images; and more
Jo Baker offers up an impressive family saga that is poignant and rarely predictable; Michael J. Sandel returns with an exquisitely reasoned, skillfully written treatise on big issues of everyday life; Mary Downing Hahn dissects the effects of a double murder on a whole community in a gripping historical thriller; and more
A joyful return to Africa turns into a nightmare in Paul Theroux’s great new novel; Robert Caro delivers the eagerly anticipated fourth volume in his epic Lyndon Johnson biography; The man who discovered T. rex receives an affectionate, energetic appreciation from Tracey Fern and Boris Kulikov; and more
Toni Morrison returns with a deceptively rich and cumulatively powerful novel about a black soldier’s return from the Korean War; acclaimed novelist Jonathan Franzen pens an unfailingly elegant and thoughtful collection of essays; Kristin Cashore takes readers back to the Seven Kingdoms in an exhilarating and provocative companion to Graceling and Fire; and more
Sarcastic, rule-breaking FBI agent Andy Fisher returns in Jim DeFelice’s latest thriller; MSNBC host Rachel Maddow delivers a hardhitting debut about how the country has lost control of its national-security policy; Traction Man and Scrubbing Brush are back for their most dangerous adventure yet! Will Beach-Time Brenda™ spell the end of the daring duo?; and more
A young woman struggles to understand herself in Catherine Chung’s luminous debut; Alison Bechdel returns with a psychologically complex, ambitious, illuminating successor to Fun Home; Laura Vaccaro Seeger applies her die-cut genius to the color green, with sublime results
A hard-shelled, sporadically soft-hearted protagonist shines in Bernard Cornwell’s latest; acclaimed novelist Rick Moody shows off his considerable gifts for parsing music; an abandoned bus becomes a flourishing urban community center in Bob Graham’s latest; and more
Lauren Groff delivers an astonishing second novel filled with revelations; Winston Groom provides essential reading for Civil War buffs and a great overview of a key battle for neophytes; Multiple-award–winner Sonya Hartnett crosses from YA to chapter books, ably abetted by Ann James; and more
Nathan Englander offers up a rich, emotionally complex collection of short stories; Philip Taubman provides a timely portrait of an alliance of former Cold War mavens now committed to nuclear disarmament; Shane W. Evans follows up last year’s stunning Underground with an equally powerful look at the 1963 March on Washington; and more
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