EDITOR’S CHOICE
Run, by Ann Patchett, $25.95
“Run” is a novel with timeless concerns at its heart – class and belonging, parenthood and love – and if it wears that heart on its sleeve, then it does so with confidence. | Publishers Weekly
FICTION
Dark of the Moon, by John Sandford, $26.95 | Sandford keeps the reader guessing and the pages turning while (protagonist Virgil) Flowers displays the kind of cool and folksy charm that might force (“Prey” series hero Lucas) Davenport to share the spotlight more often. | Publishers Weekly
NONFICTION
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War, by Michael J. Neufeld, $35 | Neufeld, chair of the Space History Division at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, offers what is likely to be the definitive biography of Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), the man behind both Nazi Germany’s V-1 and V-2 rockets and America’s postwar rocket program. | Publishers Weekly
Agent ZigZag: True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal, by Ben Macintyre, $25.95 | London Times associate editor Macin tyre (“The Man Who Would Be King”) adroitly dissects the enigmatic World War II British double agent Eddie Chapman in this intriguing and balanced biography. | Publishers Weekly
The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising In Islam’s Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda, by Yarolav Trofimov, $26 | Trofimov has crafted a compelling historical narrative, blending messianic theology with righteous violence and the Saudi state’s sclerotic corruption with the complicity of the official religious institutions. | Publishers Weekly
PAPERBACKS
Thunderstruck, by Erik Larson, $14.95 | Erik Larson has done it again. … just as in his last book, “The Devil in the White City,” he has taken an unlikely historical subject and spun it into gold. The formula is simple enough, though the finished books verge on alchemy. | The New York Times
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories, by Susanna Clarke, $13.95 | Materials from British folklore are reworked with beguiling narrative energy and mischievous wit in this first collection from the English author of the wonderful adult fantasy “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.” | Kirkus
Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, $13.95 | After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. | Kirkus
COMING UP
JANUARY
Night Train to Lisbon, by Pascal Mercier, translated by Barbara Harshav, $25 | A classical-language teacher in Switzerland finds an extraordinary book that makes him question how to change his boring and routine existence.
DECEMBER
The Nuclear Jihadist, by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins, $25 | The authors tell the story of Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan, whose loose-knit organization sold nuclear weapons, blueprints, parts and the expertise to assemble the works into a do-it-yourself bomb kit.
FEBRUARY
Person of Interest, by Susan Choi, $24.95 | According to the publisher, the book exposes “the paranoid subtexts of American culture in an age of terror and asks how far one man can run from his past.
