A WOMAN’S PILGRIMAGE ON the track of her brilliant, elusive father, who died when she was a child. Poignant. B PLUS

THIS IS HOW YOU SAY GOODBYE: A DAUGHTER’S MEMOIR
St. Martin’s Press
2013

GLOBETROTTING THIEF/WRITER Charlie Howard finds himself in the midst of an international incident. Smart fun! B PLUS

THE GOOD THIEF’S GUIDE TO BERLIN
St. Martin’s Press
2013

THE MILGRAM OBEDIENCE EXPERIMENTS revisited, including interviews with some participants. Revelatory stuff! B PLUS

BEHIND THE SHOCK MACHINE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE NOTORIOUS MILGRAM PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENTS
New Press, The
2013

AN ODD, BRILLIANT SON’S last days with his odd, brilliant father, finely wrought as an odd, brilliant novel. B PLUS

THE QUARRY
Redhook
2013

OPEN-HEARTED, SMART MEMOIR of two stepbrothers on very different paths, and the childhoods that shaped them. B PLUS

THE LOOKING GLASS BROTHER
St. Martin’s Press
2013

HARROWING SWEDISH THRILLER weaves a taut, grim, suspenseful tale of murder and insanity. Complex and chilling! B PLUS

THE FIRE WITNESS
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2013

NARWHALS! A LOVE LETTER to the beautiful tusked whales of the Arctic touches on their changing ecosystem. B PLUS

NARWHALS
University of Washington Press
2013

FASCINATING MEMOIR FOLLOWS a daughter’s exploration of her mother’s self-reinvention after a brutal childhood. B PLUS

SHE LEFT ME THE GUN : MY MOTHER’S LIFE BEFORE ME
Penguin Press
2013

VIDEO GAMES AS LIFE, life as a video game, in this coming-of-age story about four friends in the industry. B PLUS

YOU
Little, Brown & Company
2013

THE SPELLMAN FAMILY RETURNS, as lovingly dysfunctional as ever, putting their private-eye prowess to work. B PLUS

SPELLMAN NOVELS #06: THE LAST WORD
Simon & Schuster
2013