Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

This biography of Elizabeth Taylor keeps the spotlight trained on her most glorious, and most fiery, years.

A family’s fortunes rise and fall over the 300 years of Hungarian history that gracefully unfold in this novel.

John Freeman urges compulsive e-mail users to step away from the in-box.

This concluding volume to a sprawling Norwegian trilogy is less a great novel than an overextended riff on greatness’s trimmings and one itinerant soul’s hunger for them.

This exuberant novel set in a drug-addled, alternate-reality Manhattan is at its heart a traditional story of moral and intellectual development.

Top 5 at a Glance
1. NEW MOON, by Mark Cotta Vaz
2. WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel
3. THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, by Gary Chapman
4. THE POWER OF NOW, by Eckhart Tolle
5. THE LOVE DARE, by Stephen and Alex Kendrick with Lawrence Kimbrough

Top 5 at a Glance
1. JIM CRAMER'S GETTING BACK TO EVEN, by James J. Cramer with Cliff Mason
2. CRUSH IT!, by Gary Vaynerchuk
3. POSTSECRET: CONFESSIONS ON LIFE, DEATH, AND GOD, by Frank Warren
4. GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2010, edited by Craig Glenday
5. HOW TO RAISE THE PERFECT DOG, by Cesar Millan with Melissa Jo Peltier

Top 5 at a Glance
1. I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max
2. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
3. GLENN BECK’S ‘COMMON SENSE’, by Glenn Beck
4. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls
5. THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE, by Max Brooks

Top 5 at a Glance
1. SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM, by Uwem Akpan
2. THE SHACK, by William P. Young
3. THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, by Audrey Niffenegger
4. OLIVE KITTERIDGE, by Elizabeth Strout
5. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson

Top 5 at a Glance
1. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom
2. ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others
3. HIGHEST DUTY, by Chesley B. Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow
4. TRUE COMPASS, by Edward M. Kennedy
5. MOONWALK, by Michael Jackson

Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown
2. PURSUIT OF HONOR, by Vince Flynn
3. NINE DRAGONS, by Michael Connelly
4. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett
5. THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks

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Top 5 at a Glance
1. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, by Barb Bersche and Michelle Quint
2. LEGO STAR WARS, by Simon Beecroft
3. JULIE ANDREWS’S COLLECTION OF POEMS, SONGS, AND LULLABIES, by Emma Walton Hamilton and Julie Andrews
4. SKIPPYJON JONES, LOST IN SPICE, by Judy Schachner
5. WADDLE!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder

Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham
2. CROSS COUNTRY, by James Patterson
3. HEAT LIGHTNING, by John Sandford
4. TRUE DETECTIVES, by Jonathan Kellerman
5. JUST AFTER SUNSET, by Stephen King

Four outstanding collections of great writing across diverse fields of interest should keep readers' attention this fall.

The book: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen (Henry Holt, $22)The book

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Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown
2. A TOUCH OF DEAD, by Charlaine Harris
3. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett
4. THE PROFESSIONAL, by Robert B. Parker
5. THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks