Editor’s Choice
Hold Tight, by Harlan Coben, $26.95. Parents will find this compulsive page-turner from Edgar- winner Coben (“The Woods”) particularly unnerving. A sadistic killer is at play in suburban Glen Rock, N.J., outside New York City, but somehow he’s less frightening than the more mundane problems that send ordinary lives into chaos. Publishers Weekly
FICTION
Dictation, by Cynthia Ozick, $24. A carefully honed, sharply intelligent new collection of four stories shows Ozick (“The Heir to the Glimmering World”) at the height of her stylistic powers. Ozick’s stories ingeniously put scholarship in the service of human flowerings. Publishers Weekly
Lady Lazarus, by Andrew Foster Altschul, $25. In this gleeful, difficult debut, Altschul lays into an easy target — cynical celebrity culture — and meticulously crafts an over-the-top pop mirror world for his young heroine. Altschul registers some razor-sharp cultural observations and executes some thrilling high dives. Publishers Weekly
NONFICTION
Havanas in Camelot, by William Styron, $23. Mostly assembled by Styron shortly before his death in 2006, these perfectly crafted and deeply expressive essays range effortlessly from smoking stogies with JFK to his run-ins with editors during the editing of his first novel, “Lie Down in Darkness.” Publishers Weekly
Yeltsin: A Life, by Timothy J. Colton, $35. When President Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) left office in 1999, he was unpopular in Russia and viewed as a buffoon by some internationally, but it would be a mistake to underestimate his influence on contemporary Russia. Colton’s book offers a finely detailed portrait of a key international leader. Publishers Weekly
The Bishop’s Daughter, by Honor Moore, $25.95. Having told the sad, extraordinary story of her maternal grandmother, the painter Margarett Sargent, in “The White Blackbird” (1996), Moore offers a painfully honest memoir of her father, Paul Moore (1919-2003), the Episcopal bishop of the diocese of New York from 1972 to 1989. Publishers Weekly
PAPERBACKS
Free Food for Millionaires, by Min Jin Lee, $13.99. In her noteworthy debut, Lee filters through a lively postfeminist perspective a tale of first-generation immigrants stuck between stodgy parents and the hip new world. Publishers Weekly
Where Have All the Leaders Gone? by Lee Iacocca, $15. Iacocca is outraged. Now 82, he has seen the U.S. overcome some of its worst crises, including the Great Depression and World War II, through great leadership. Now, he says, our government has fallen under the grip of arrogant ideologues and spineless detractors. Booklist
At Some Disputed Barricade, by Anne Perry, $15. Fans of the first three books in this WWI series from Perry, best known for her Victorian police procedurals, will eagerly pick up this fourth volume to learn more of the ongoing saga of the three Reavley siblings. Publishers Weekly
COMING UP
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom, by Simon Winchester, $27.95. Winchester (“The Professor and the Madman”) relates the story of the growth of China and the eccentric and adventurous scientist who defined its essence for the world. (May)
Made in the U.S.A., by Billie Letts, $24.99. Letts tells the fictional story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair and frightening the world is before they finally find a place where they belong. (June)
