After a hiatus following the death of his wife and collaborator, Dick Francis is back with a new novel set at the racetrack, “Under Orders.” In nonfiction, look for another biography of Allen Ginsberg, “I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg,” by Bill Morgan. Augusten Burrough’s much-ballyhooed memoir, “Running With Scissors,” is finally out in paperback. And looking ahead to next month, you can expect “Dear John,” a new novel from Nicholas Sparks.
FICTION
Under Orders, by Dick Francis, Putnam, 320 pages, $25.95|Francis centers his first novel in six years on ex-jockey and detective Sid Halley as he investigates three deaths that occur on the same day at a racetrack.
God Don’t Play, by Mary Monroe, Ken sington, 320 pages, $24|In the author’s third novel in the “God Don’t” series, Annette finally has it all. And then someone starts sending her hate mail.
Memorial, by Bruce Wagner, Simon & Schuster, 507 pages, $26|Wagner moves away from the Hollywood he featured in earlier novels by examining the lives of four members of an ordinary family in Los Angeles.
NONFICTION
I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg, by Bill Morgan, Penguin, 720 pages, $29.95|The author who served as the beat poet’s archivist and bibliographer, recounts Ginsberg’s life.
The Epidemic: A Global History of AIDS, by Jonathan Engel, Smithsonian, HarperCollins, 400 pages, $28.95|Engels takes us from the onset of the epidemic in the 1980s to the present, taking into account science, politics and culture.
Outside the Box, by Lynn Sherr, Rodale, 376 pages, $25.95|The ABC correspondent tells about her life as one of the first women to break through in broadcast journalism.
PAPERBACKS
Running With Scissors, by Augusten Burroughs, Picador, 315 pages, $14|The memoir of a man whose mother gave him away as a child to be raised by her psychiatrist, who bore a resemblance to Santa Claus.
The Sisters, by Robert Littell, Penguin, 312 pages, $14|Two veteran CIA operatives, known as the Sisters of Death and Night, put their heads together to plan the perfect crime.
The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy, by Charles R. Morris, Owl, 382 pages, $18|The lives of the four giants of the Gilded Age, a time of massive economic growth that made America the richest nation in the world, are brought into focus.
COMING UP
Dear John, by Nicholas Sparks, Warner, 288 pages, $24.99, Oct. 30|John Tyree has joined the Army and meets Savannah Lynn Curtis on leave. She vows to wait for his tour of duty to end. But then comes 9/11 and everything changes.
Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Writings of Benjamin Franklin, edited by Edmund S. Morgan, Yale University Press, 336 pages, $26, Nov.|Morgan gathers familiar and unfamiliar writings on many subjects that give insight into Franklin’s mind.
Don’t Make Me Stop Now, by Michael Parker, Algonquin, 288 pages, $12.95, paperback, Jan.|As in the author’s previous collection, “If You Want Me to Stay,” some of the less fortunate side effects of love are examined.
