NONFICTION

When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone,by Gal Beckerman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; $30). Soviet Jewry’s underground support networks.

The Icarus Syndrome,by Peter Beinart (Harper; $27.99). Three needless wars and American grandiosity.

The Publisher,by Alan Brinkley (Knopf; $35). On the creator ofTime andLife.

Leo & His Circle,by Annie Cohen-Solal, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti (Knopf; $35). The dazzling success of a mid-century art dealer.

Tocqueville’s Discovery of America,by Leo Damrosch (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $27). Reconstituting the journey.

Four Fish,by Paul Greenberg (Penguin Press; $25.95). An argument for smart aquaculture.

Empires and Barbarians,by Peter Heather (Oxford; $34.95). How medieval Europe became the modern West.

Charlie Chan,by Yunte Huang (Norton; $26.95). A quirky hunt for the real detective.

Common as Air,by Lewis Hyde (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $26). A historical approach to intellectual property.

Christianity,by Diarmaid MacCulloch (Viking; $45). The subtle shadings of a complicated history.

Operation Mincemeat,by Ben Macintyre (Harmony; $25.99). The Second World War spy caper.

All the Devils Are Here,by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera (Portfolio; $32.95). How two decades of haplessness led to the financial crisis.

The Emperor of All Maladies,by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner; $30). The history of cancer.

Curfewed Night,by Basharat Peer (Scribner; $25). A journalist’s account of the Kashmiri war.

Adam Smith,by Nicholas Phillipson (Yale; $32.50). How the man of feeling became the god of finance.

Life,by Keith Richards (Little, Brown; $29.99). A slurry romp.

And the Show Went On,by Alan Riding (Knopf; $28.95). The world of the arts in Nazi-occupied Paris.

Diaghilev,by Sjeng Scheijen, translated from the Dutch by Jane Hedley-Prôle and S. J. Leinbach (Oxford; $39.95). New revelations about the dancer.

Cleopatra,by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown; $29.99). The siren queen, artfully examined.

Supreme Power,by Jeff Shesol (Norton; $27.95). F.D.R.’s court-packing scheme.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,by Rebecca Skloot (Crown; $26). The source of the first undying cell line.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan,edited by Steven R. Weisman (PublicAffairs; $35). Writings from an adventurous mind and an eventful life.

Claude Lévi-Strauss,by Patrick Wilcken (Penguin Press; $29.95). Antihumanist, polymath, and autodidact.

The Warmth of Other Suns,by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House; $30). The heroic exodus from the South.

The Master Switch,by Tim Wu (Knopf; $27.95). Finding patterns in the fates of information empires.

FICTION AND POETRY

Everything,by Kevin Canty (Nan A. Talese / Doubleday; $25.95). One year’s turmoil for five appealingly aimless Montanans.

Parrot & Olivier in America,by Peter Carey (Knopf; $26.95). A comic historical picaresque.

Nox,by Anne Carson (New Directions; $29.95). On the contours of absence.

Summertime,by J. M. Coetzee (Viking; $25.95). A fictionalized memoir.

By Nightfall,by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $25). An art dealer and a precocious ex-addict.

The Privileges,by Jonathan Dee (Random House; $25). A cynical novel of insider trading.

Room,by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown; $24.99). A horror story redeemed by radiant prose.

The Unnamed,by Joshua Ferris (Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown; $24.99). A man derailed by a perambulatory illness.

The Quickening Maze,by Adam Foulds (Penguin; $15). An intricate homage to two nineteenth-century poets.

The Cookbook Collector,by Allegra Goodman (Dial; $26). Romantic entanglements during the dot-com boom.

To the End of the Land,by David Grossman, translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen (Knopf; $26.95). A hike in the Galilee carries two characters into the past.

Long, Last, Happy,by Barry Hannah (Grove /Atlantic; $27.50). Slyly witty stories in a posthumous collection.

Canti,by Giacomo Leopardi, translated from the Italian by Jonathan Galassi (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $35). A lucid new translation.

The Long Song,by Andrea Levy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $26). A Jamaican’s enslavement.

The Ask,by Sam Lipsyte (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $25). Satirizing America after the meltdown.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,by David Mitchell (Random House; $26). A formidable historical novel.

February,by Lisa Moore (Black Cat; $14.95). The consequences of grief.

Skippy Dies,by Paul Murray (Faber & Faber; $28). Irish boarding-school life, told with grinning morbidity.

The Invisible Bridge,by Julie Orringer (Knopf; $26.95). A capacious Holocaust love story.

Foreign Bodies,by Cynthia Ozick (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; $26). A taut retelling of “The Ambassadors.”

Mr. Peanut,by Adam Ross (Knopf; $25.95). The novel as Möbius strip.

Nemesis,by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; $26). The 1944 polio outbreak is the backdrop for a tragic fall.

The Best of It,by Kay Ryan (Grove /Atlantic; $24). Economical, melancholy poems.

My Hollywood,by Mona Simpson (Knopf; $26.95). A novel of manners about modern motherhood.

Private Life,by Jane Smiley (Knopf; $26.95). A woman constrained by marriage to an eccentric scientist.

03,by Jean-Christophe Valtat, translated from the French by Mitzi Angel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $12). Adolescent attachment in an ambitious monologue.