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

Told in his own voice, this posthumous work by the cranky provocateur is as much a moving tribute as it is a taste of what could ...

When the dome comes down on a rural town in Stephen King's intriguing Under the Dome, we are slammed up against the wall of a ...

After co-scripting the screenplay for Where the Wild Things Are and writing a novelization, Dave Eggers has signed a movie deal ...

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.

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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

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. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, by Nancy Butler and Hugo Petrus
4. THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young
5. ULTIMATUM, by Jeph Loeb and David Finch

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1. WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel
2. NEW MOON, by Mark Cotta Vaz
3. MORE DINERS, DRIVE-INS AND DIVES, by Guy Fieri with Ann Volkwein
4. THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, by Gary Chapman
5. BUY KETCHUP IN MAY AND FLY AT NOON, by Mark Di Vincenzo

Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE BLIND SIDE, by Michael Lewis
2. OUR CHOICE, by Al Gore
3. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
4. FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
5. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls

Top 5 at a Glance
1. PUSH, by Sapphire
2. BED OF ROSES, by Nora Roberts
3. SAY YOU’RE ONE OF THEM, by Uwem Akpan
4. THE SHACK, by William P. Young
5. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson