FICTION

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, here.]

Alice McDermott, here.]

Javier Marías, A Tale for the Time Being” target=“_blank”>A Tale for the Time Being (Viking) [Read our review here.]

Donna Tartt, here.]


NONFICTION

Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital” target=“_blank”>Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Crown)

David Finkel, here and our author Q&A here.]

George Packer, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief” target=“_blank”>Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief (Knopf) [Read our review here.]

POETRY

Frank Bidart, Stay, Illusion: Poems” target=“_blank”>Stay, Illusion (Knopf) [Read our review here.]

Denise Duhamel, Elegy Owed” target=“_blank”>Elegy Owed (Copper Canyon)

Carmen Gimenez Smith, Wave” target=“_blank”>Wave (Knopf)

Aleksandar Hemon, The Faraway Nearby” target=“_blank”>The Faraway Nearby (Viking)

Jesmyn Ward, here.]

Amy Wilentz, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East” target=“_blank”>Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Doubleday)

Leo Damrosch, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven” target=“_blank”>Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (Knopf)

Linda Leavell, Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis” target=“_blank”>Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis (Cornell University Press)

CRITICISM

Hilton Als, Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations” target=“_blank”>Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations (Liveright)

Jonathan Franzen, Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers” target=“_blank”>Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Franco Moretti, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena” target=“_blank”>A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (Hogarth) [Read our review here.]

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