The "international story of intrigue" centered on a scramble to capture a suspected terrorist leads the list of the newly released.

Do not be misled by the adorable dogs on the cover of David Rosenfelt's seventh mystery novel, 'New Tricks.' This is a well-plotted ...

On a June night in 1993, the cargo ship Golden Venture ran aground near Queens, N.Y., while attempting to smuggle 286 Chinese ...

In this week's mix: Love and war, the lives of nuns, a Dickens of a novel, and three British women with three different reasons ...

Another movie tie-in gives a boost to a book; Swedish computer-hacker heroine Lisbeth Salander is virtually unstoppable; and ...

Best-selling author Stephen White has written 16 psychological thrillers. He's a psychologist, like one of his main characters. ...

No entertainer's journey more acutely reflects the shifts and struggles in race relations through the 20th century than that ...

Stephenie Meyer's four-book Twilight series has sunk its fangs into USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list with no signs of letting ...

The protagonist of Ward Just’s novel turns away from Washington, power and professional success.

In Colum McCann’s New York novel, everything “is built upon another thing.”

Top 5 at a Glance
1. LISTEN TO THE WIND, by Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth
2. GALLOP!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder
3. GOLDILICIOUS, written and illustrated by Victoria Kann
4. SWING!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder
5. EXPLORER EXTRAORDINAIRE!, by Jane O’Connor

This short political history revisits Jimmy Carter’s 1979 “malaise” speech about America’s limitations.

Biotechnology is ushering in changes that sound freakish today but will soon seem utterly normal.

Detective novels by Rennie Airth, Harry Dolan, Steve Hockensmith and Theresa Schwegel.

Poetry collections by W. S. Merwin, G. C. Waldrep, Angie Estes and Eilean Ni Chuilleanain. Plus a book of essays about contemporary photography.

Two books about Wal-Mart focus on its culture, its technology and its labor practices.

Christopher Caldwell gives the question of Islam in Europe its most sustained and thoughtful treatment to date.

Werner Herzog’s journals add another layer to the legend of “Fitzcarraldo.”

William T. Vollmann’s 10 years combing the down-and-dirty borderlands of California and Mexico.

In this story collection, characters search in vain for links to nature, to history and to one another.