Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE BOOK OF GENESIS: ILLUSTRATED, by R. Crumb
2. BLOOM COUNTY: THE COMPLETE LIBRARY, VOL. 1, by Berkeley Breathed
3. BATMAN: CACOPHONY, by Kevin Smith and Walter Flanagan
4. THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young
5. BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE, by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland

Wine and food aficionados will find much to savor in Peter Mayle's The Vintage Caper, a classic mystery story set in Hollywood, ...

John Irving packs a lot too much at times into his 12th novel. But if you like sprawling family stories with sexual complications, ...

Britain's Queen Mother lived to be 101. William Shawcross appears to have covered every moment of those 101 years in his exhaustive, ...

The story of the critical transformation of the Army in Iraq, told through profiles of four generals.

These dystopic Stalin-era stories, which read like dream diaries, went unpublished for decades.

A dialogue between two World Series stars, Reggie Jackson and Bob Gibson, about their glory days.

This historical novel’s lustful, murderous protagonist has a tie to the author.

Earlier this year, the novelist Jane Smiley was a judge for the Man Booker International Prize.

In this novel of obsessive fandom, a reclusive singer-songwriter’s new album upends several lives.

Story collections by Lydia Davis and Sherman Alexie; novels by Anita Shreve, Michael Mewshaw, and Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt.

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This novel is a courageous and entertaining meditation on the sublime and the trivial, written in an all-question format.

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A highly political biography of a transformative figure in modern photojournalism, the documentary photographer Dorothea Lange.

A comedy of manners about a musician coming of age in status-conscious 1980s Bombay.

In his serious graphic rendering of the Bible’s first book, R. Crumb resists the temptation to exaggerate the text’s most strange or sordid aspects.

Virtually all thinkers about foreign policy today are proposing a return to something old.

Paperback books of particular interest.