This week, a fistful of mystery-thrillers (The Jaguar, Vulture Peak, The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen, The Rook) bump up against bios of Elizabeth II and the Obamas, as well as a fascinating memoir from the "godfather of rap." For more details, check out the reviews linked below, as well as our interviews with journalist Jodi Kantor, author of the aforementioned biography The Obamas, and novelist Adam Johnson, whose title The Orphan Master’s Son will take readers into the totalitarian heart of darkness that is present-day North Korea.
Adult
January 9
A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948by James Barr (Norton, $27.95; ISBN 978-0-393-07065-1).
January 10
The Jaguar: A Charlie Hood Novel by T. Jefferson Parker (Dutton, $26.95; ISBN 978-0-525-95257-2).
Elizabeth the Queen: Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith (Random, $30; ISBN 978-1-4000-6789-3).
Lunatics by Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel (Putnam, $25.95; ISBN 978-0-399-15869-8).
The Last Holiday by Gil Scott Heron (Grove, $25; ISBN 978-0-8021-2901-7).
The Obamas by Jodi Kantor (Little, Brown, $29.99; ISBN 978-0-316-09875-5). Embargoed, review forthcoming.
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (Random House, $26; ISBN 978-0-8129-9279-3).
Vulture Peak by John Burdett (Knopf, $25.95; ISBN 978-0-307-27267-6).
The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen by Thomas Caplan (Viking, $26.95; ISBN 978-0-670-02321-9).
January 11
The Rook by Daniel O'Malley (Little, Brown, $25.99; ISBN 978-0-316-09879-3)
Children’s and YA
January 10
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Penguin, $17.99; ISBN 978-0525478812). Embargoed, review forthcoming.
A Million Suns by Beth Revis (Razorbill, $17.99; ISBN 978-1-59514-398-3). 200,000 copies. Series kick-off review.
