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Every month, Editorial Director Sara Nelson and the editors at Amazon.com sift through hundreds of books to discover their favorite titles. Here’s what they chose for the best of the season:
Fiction
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We Are Water
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Help for the Haunted
(William Morrow) |
Tatiana
(Simon & Schuster) |
Wally Lamb |
John Searles |
Martin Cruz Smith |
Another unputdownable doorstop of a novel—this one about marriages, gay and otherwise—from the beloved author of She’s Come Undone. |
Help for the Haunted is John Searles’ masterful thriller about a family that helps haunted souls. |
Remember Arkady Renko, the hero of Martin Cruz Smith’s Gorky Park? He’s back … in Tatiana, an espionage extravaganza set in a Kremlinized Soviet state. |
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My Notorious Life
(Scribner) |
Night Film
(Random House) |
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Kate Manning |
Marisha Pessl |
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My Notorious Life investigates in a Dickensian way, the life and times of one of New York’s most infamous 19th century midwives. |
Night Film is Marisha Pessl’s lurid and wonderfully relentless novel about a down-and-out reporter who investigates a woman’s disappearance. |
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Nonfiction
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Camelot’s Court
(Harper) |
Five Days at Memorial
(Crown) |
Warrior Princess
(Skirt) |
Robert Dallek |
Sheri Fink |
Mindy Budgor |
Another Kennedy book—but this one is erudite and intelligent, published on the 50th anniversary of the assassination. |
Five Days at Memorial is Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s shocking look inside a hospital that barely weathered Hurricane Katrina. |
Mindy Budgor’s account of training to become the first female Massai warrior will stun you with its bravery. |
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David and Goliath
(Little, Brown and Company) |
Lawrence in Arabia
(Doubleday) |
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Malcolm Gladwell |
Scott Anderson |
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About why it’s sometimes better to be the underdog than the big shot. Enough said. |
Historian Scott Anderson explains how the folly of the past has created the present anguish of the Middle East. |
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