Float Up, Sing Down: Stories

For fans of the author’s novel Zorrie, these linked tales will feel like home.

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop: A Novel

By Hwang Bo-reum; translated by Shanna Tan

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop: A Novel

A bookstore in suburban Seoul brings outsiders together.

Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

An appealing look at the civil-rights icons’ private lives.

Alphabetical Diaries

By Sheila Heti

Alphabetical Diaries

These inwardly focused ruminations are alternately solipsistic and sublime.

The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians

A witty, mostly winning compilation of the columnist’s previous work.

Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin

Meet the gutsy aviators who drifted silently into battle.

Mr. Breakfast

By Jonathan Carroll

Mr. Breakfast

A down-on-his-luck everyman is given a peek at the road not taken.

The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae

By Myke Cole and Michael Livingston

The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae

A fascinating history of the storied Greek battlefield.