TELEGRAPH AVENUE, by Michael Chabon. (Harper/HarperCollins, $ 27.99.) Chabon's abounding comic novel about fathers as well as sons in Berkeley as well as Oakland, Calif., juggles multiple plots as well as mounds of cocktail enlightenment references in astonishing prose.
LITTLE AMERICA: The War Within a War for Afghanistan, by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. (Knopf, $ 27.95.) A beautifully created as well as deeply reported comment of America's troubled impasse in Afghanistan.
EMBERS OF WAR: The Fall of an Empire as well as a Making of America's Vietnam, by Fredrik Logevall. (Random House, $ 40.) An impressive story of a French dispute in Vietnam which America took on.
THOMAS BECKET: Warrior, Priest, Rebel: A Nine-Hundred-Year-Old Story Retold, by John Guy. (Random House, $ 35.) Both darkly comic as well as deeply tragic, this biography, aided by an array of source materials, is a portrait of a saint with copiousness of shadows.
THE REVISED FUNDAMENTALS OF CAREGIVING, by Jonathan Evison. (Algonquin, $ 23.95.) A man whose young kids died in a freak collision cares for a infirm teenager in this funny, relocating novel.
MONKEY MIND: A Memoir of Anxiety, by Daniel Smith. (Simon & Schuster, $ 25.) Smit! h's flee t, funny as well as productively exhausting discourse attempts to grapple with a lifetime of anxiety.
THE SECOND WORLD WAR, by Antony Beevor. (Little, Brown, $ 35.) This powerful account of World War II stresses diplomacy as well as battles, as well as a writer is no respecter of reputations.
SHOUT HER LOVELY NAME, by Natalie Serber. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $ 24.) The stories in Serber's first collection are intelligent as well as nuanced.
SARAH THORNHILL, by Kate Grenville. (Grove, $ 25.) A slashing conclusion to a tough-hearted fictional trilogy about a colonizing of Australia.
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