Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
By Thomas E. Ricks
Penguin $16
A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent looks at the tactical successes and the strategic failures of the war in Iraq.
Islamic Imperialism
By Efraim Karsh
Yale University Press $17
The author argues that Islamic imperial tradition is to blame for contemporary acts of Islamic aggression.
Talk Talk
By T.C. Boyle
Penguin $14
A novel about a wrongly accused deaf woman and her boyfriend, and their search for the man who stole her identity.
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
By Julie Phillips
Picador, $18
The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning biography of the woman who became the science-fiction writer known as James Tiptree Jr.
Brothers
By Da Chen
Three Rivers $14.95
A novel about sons of a Chinese general — one raised in wealth, one in poverty — and the path that brings them together.
Chew on This
By Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson
Houghton Mifflin $8.95
Adapted from Eric Schlosser’s “Fast Food Nation,” this book for younger readers goes behind the scenes of the fast-food industry.
Poison
By Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
Norton $15.95
A novel about the life and death of a brilliant, womanizing poet, by a former University of Chicago professor.
The Faith Club: A Muslim, a Christian, a Jew — Three Women Search for Understanding
By Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver and Priscilla Warner
Free Press, $14
Three women band together after 9/11 to explore their questions about one another’s religions.
