A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
By Gil Courtemanche, translated by Patricia Claxton (Vintage $13.95)
A novel about an affair between a foreign journalist and a Hutu waitress at a Rwandan hotel.
Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You
By Alice Munro (Vintage $13)
The author’s second collection of stories is a celebration of female relationships.
Living to Tell the Tale
By Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Vintage $14.95)
The first volume of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s autobiography.
The Prism and the Pendulum: The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in Science
By Robert P. Crease (Random House $14.95)
A look at the beauty found in scientific experiments, from ancient times to the present.
The Boy Who Loved Windows
By Patricia Stacey (Da Capo $14.95)
The author shares her family’s experience raising an autistic son.
The Amateur Marriage
By Anne Tyler (Ballantine $14.95)
A novel about a disintegrating marriage from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Breathing Lessons.”
Luscious Lemon
By Heather Swain (Downtown $13)
In this novel, a chef unexpectedly becomes pregnant just as she’s opening her own restaurant.
You Belong in a Zoo!: Tales From a Lifetime Spent With Cobras, Crocs, and Other Extraordinary Creatures
By Peter Brazaitis (Villard $14.95)
A former curator of animals at New York City’s Central Park Zoo writes about his work.
Elizabeth Costello
By J.M. Coetzee (Penguin $14)
A Nobel Prize-winning novel about a woman’s life as told through a series of formal addresses.
The Girl Who Played Go
By Shan Sa (Vintage $13.95)
A novel about a Japanese soldier and a young girl set during the 1930 Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
Daughter’s Keeper
By Ayelet Waldman (Sourcebooks $14)
A novel about a woman who unknowingly becomes involved in a drug deal and turns to her mother for help.
The Fisher King
By Anthony Powell (University of Chicago $14)
A new edition of a 1986 novel that explores the relationship between a dancer and an older war hero and photographer.
Siegfried
By Harry Mulisch (Penguin $14)
A novel about a couple who raised the son of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun.
Parasites Like Us
By Adam Johnson (Penguin $14)
A novel about an anthropology professor who records humanity’s last days after the apocalypse.
First Loves
By Ted Solotaroff (Seven Stories $14.95)
The founder of American Review writes about his marriage and his wife’s struggle with manic depression.
The Colossus of New York: A City in Thirteen Parts
By Colson Whitehead (Anchor $12)
Linked prose poems explore life in New York City.
Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think
By Victor Davis Hanson (Anchor $14.95)
Examines the consequences over time of selected military battles.
The Middle Mind
By Curtis White (HarperSanFrancisco $14.95)
Argues that American intellectual and cultural imagination is eroding.
Oracle Night
By Paul Auster (Picador $14)
A novel about a writer with a prophetic notebook, by the author of “The Book of Illusions.”
The Chess Artist
By J.C. Hallman (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s Griffin $13.95)
A history of chess and accounts of encounters with people who revere the game.
Housekeeping
By Marilynne Robinson (Picador $14)
A new edition of a 1980 debut novel about the coming of age of two sisters.
Deep Survival
By Laurence Gonzales (Norton $14.95)
Uses science and storytelling to explore the art of survival in the wilderness and in everyday stressful situations.
Not the End of the World
By Kate Atkinson (Back Bay $13.95)
A collection of short fiction featuring unusual characters.
Mirror, Mirror
By Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks $14.95)
A reworking of the classic fairy tale “Snow White.”
Chasing the Sea
By Tom Bissell (Vintage $14.95)
The author’s record of his travels in Uzbekistan.
Genesis
By Jim Crace (Picador $14)
A novel about an actor’s experiences with women and the ways lust can frustrate and subjugate us.
Mr. Timothy
By Louis Bayard (Perennial $13.95)
A novel that imagines Timothy Cratchit of “A Christmas Carol” as an adult.
Life With an Idiot
By Victor Erofeyev (Penguin $15)
A collection of stories, translated from Russian, written from 1978 to 1990.
The Mrs. Dalloway Reader
By Virginia Woolf et al. (Harvest $14)
Includes Virginia Woolf’s novel “Mrs. Dalloway,” related correspondence and other writings by Woolf, and essays by E.M. Forster and others.
Elroy Nights
By Frederick Barthelme (Counterpoint $13)
A novel about a 50-year-old professor and the 20-something students he hangs out with after leaving his wife.
