What Is the What
By Dave Eggers
Vintage, $15.95
A novel based on the real struggles of one of Sudan’s Lost Boys.
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
By Fareed Zakaria
Norton, $15.95
A look at democracy in the U.S. and around the world.
The Splendor of Silence
By Indu Sundaresan
Washington Square, $14
In this novel, a U.S. soldier goes to India in the 1940s to find his missing brother but instead finds forbidden love.
Murder in Amsterdam
By Ian Buruma
Penguin, $15
Details the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, whose movie advocated Muslim women’s civil rights.
Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made
By Jim Newton
Riverhead, $17.95
Examines the late chief justice’s path to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Small Acts of Sex and Electricity
By Lise Haines
Unbridled, $14.95
In this novel, jealousy surrounding longtime girlfriends leads one to abandon her privileged life and leave her husband and children to the other.
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
By Daniel Mendelsohn
HarperPerennial, $15.95
The author combines personal memory and scholarly history to uncover his family’s tragic past during the Holocaust, in this winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award.
Cion
By Zakes Mda
Picador, $14
A novel about a professional South African mourner’s visit to the U.S.
The Confession
By James E. McGreevey
Harper, $16.95
The memoirs of the gay former New Jersey governor.
