The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
By Lawrence Wright
Vintage, $15.95
This account of the rise of Islamic terrorism and the five decades leading up to 9/11 won the Pulitzer Prize.
Jia
By Hyejin Kim
Midnight Editions, $14.95
This fact-based novel follows an oppressed orphan as she struggles to survive in modern North Korea.
All Aunt Hagar’s Children
By Edward P. Jones
Amistad, $14.95
Fourteen short stories depicting black life in 20th Century Washington, D.C., from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
State of Denial
By Bob Woodward
Simon & Schuster, $16
A look inside the Bush administration and the war in Iraq.
Sharp Objects
By Gillian Flynn
Three Rivers, $14
A thriller from a Chicago writer about a young reporter’s reluctant return to her hometown to cover a murder of two girls.
Fortunate Son: The Life of Elvis Presley
By Charles L. Ponce de Leon
Hill and Wang, $15
A biography that focuses on Elvis Presley’s fame within the historical and cultural contexts in which he lived.
A Stronger Kinship: One Town’s Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith
By Anna-Lisa Cox
University of Nebraska Press, $19.95
The story of the people of Covert, Mich., who lived in a mixed-race community during the 1860s.
Flight
By Sherman Alexie
Black Cat, $13
An orphaned Indian boy travels back and forth through key moments of American history.
Stick Out Your Tongue
By Ma Jian
Picador, $11
This fictional tale of life in Tibet, first published in 1987, led the Chinese government to ban Ma Jian’s future works.
