COMPELLING NEW HISTORY of the Amistad uprising: deeply revelatory about the lives of its African leaders.

IMPRESSIVE NEW BIOGRAPHY of the Brontës reveals much about father and brother as well as the famous sisters.

CHARMING, OPEN-HEARTED MEMOIR of a writer’s new marriage, religious reawakening, and breast cancer experience.

FIRST-PERSON STORIES of people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria paint a nuanced picture of the disease’s impact.

A MARVELOUSLY ENJOYABLE TOUR of so-called “living fossils”—the world’s oldest (and strangest) organisms.

GORGEOUS LITTLE ART book is a collage of impressions–in photos and text–of the owner of a lost address book.

A YOUNG US WRITER’S memoir of three pilgrimages (including the famed Camino de Santiago) has wit, lacks oomph.

THE “GOLDEN AGE” 8th-century Islamic empire of Harun al-Rashid, and its impact on today’s world. Enlightening!

FRENCH WRITER AND BOOK collector Jacques Bonnet shares slyly insightful thoughts on his 40,000-volume library.

ENGAGING, CANDID MEMOIR of parenting as a gay dad from comic actor/screenwriter Dan Bucatinsky; tons of charm!