Odds Against Tomorrow

by Nathaniel Rich

Act of Congress: How America’s Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn’t

by Robert G. Kaiser

The Civil War and American Art

an exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., November 16, 2012–April 28, 2013, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, May 21–September 2, 2013

House of Earth

by Woody Guthrie, edited and introduced by Douglas Brinkley and Johnny Depp

L’Héritage de Vichy: Ces 100 mesures toujours en vigueur [The Heritage of Vichy: One Hundred Measures That Are Still in Force]

by Cécile Desprairies, with a preface by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Umbrella

by Will Self

The Accursed

by Joyce Carol Oates

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

by David Quammen

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

by Mohsin Hamid

Five Star Billionaire

by Tash Aw

Beggar’s Feast

by Randy Boyagoda

The Lives of Margaret Fuller

by John Matteson

Margaret Fuller: A New American Life

by Megan Marshall

China Hand: An Autobiography

by John Paton Davies Jr.

The Cambridge History of Musical Performance

edited by Colin Lawson and Robin Stowell

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

by Lawrence Wright

Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

by Jenna Miscavige Hill, with Lisa Pulitzer