The themes of this collection are a good way to characterize the author himself: a minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards of statistical reasoning.

It’s not even Thanksgiving, and some Christmas-related books are already creeping up the list and Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel, “The Lacuna,” enters the hardcover fiction list at No. 5.

Jonathan Safran Foer is just the latest in a long line of distinguished literary vegetarians.

Chaucer’s lusty pilgrims return in a Modern English incarnation.

The unfinished “Original of Laura” comes ready for devotees to read and remix.

Philip Roth’s novel stars an aging actor who can no longer act.

In the autumnal novel of Maureen Howard’s cycle of seasons, an 80-something narrator shares her inner Manhattan.

Reconstructing officials’ false and ineffectual responses to 9/11.

To the Editor:.

Mary Karr’s third memoir layers the pangs of recovery with those of motherhood, divorce and making art.

In his new memoir, Harold Evans recalls an exuberant run in 20th-century journalism.

The professor of psychiatry who discussed her own manic depression in “An Unquiet Mind” revisits her husband’s death from cancer.

James McManus explores the characteristically American history of poker.

A fictional metamorphosis conveys what it means to be alien.

The story of 2008’s crash, and an effort to size up the problem.

Mystery novels by Stuart Neville, Derek Nikitas and Susan Kandel; and collections of crime fiction set in Boston and Pheonix.

In Paul Auster’s latest novel, the protagonist indulges passions new and forbidden.

The Harvard psychologist acknowledges that academic explainers have their own faults.

To the Editor:.

Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE BOOK OF GENESIS: ILLUSTRATED, by R. Crumb
2. FINAL CRISIS: LEGION OF THREE WORLDS, by Geoff Johns and George Perez
3. THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young
4. ULTIMATUM, by Jeph Loeb and David Finch
5. THE WALKING DEAD, BOOK 1, by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard