The picks this week include a solid dose of politics in Consent of the Networked (internet policy), Delirium (social policy), and A Single Roll of the Dice (foreign policy); a trio of thrillers in The Fear Index, Defending Jacob, and The Dark Rose; a moving piece of pop-fic from bestseller Kristin Hannah; a lit-fic import from Edward St. Aubyn; a chronicle of America’s pioneering gay writers from Christopher Bram; and a religion bonus pick in Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s latest, the controversy-courting Kosher Jesus. Plus: a comic cultural commentary on How to Be Black, and a winning posthumous volume from children’s book author Diana Wynne Jones.
Adults
January 30
Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedomby Rebecca MacKinnon (Basic, $26.99; ISBN 978-0-465-02442-1).
Delirium: How the Sexual Counterrevolution Is Polarizing America by Nancy L. Cohen (Counterpoint, $27; ISBN 978-1-58243-801-6).
Defending Jacob by William Landay (Delacorte, $26; ISBN 978-0-385-34422-7).
At Last by Edward St. Aubyn (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25; ISBN 978-0-330-43590-1).
How to Be Black by Baratunde Thurston (Harper, $24.99; ISBN 978-0-06-200321-8).
Home Front by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's, $27.99; ISBN 978-0-312-57720-9).
A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran by Trita Parsi (Yale Univ., $27.50; ISBN 978-0-300-16936-2).
January 31
The Fear Indexby Robert Harris (Knopf, $25.95; ISBN 978-0-307-95793-1).
February 1
Kosher Jesus by Shmuley Boteach (Gefen, www.gefenpublishing.com, $26.95; ISBN 978-965-229-578-1).
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed Americaby Christopher Bram (Hachette/Twelve, $27.99; ISBN 978-0-446-56313-0).
The Dark Rose by Erin Kelly (Viking/Pamela Dorman, $26.95; ISBN 978-0-670-02328-8).
Children’s/YA
February 1
Earwig and the Witch by Diana Wynne Jones, illus. by Paul O. Zelinsky (Greenwillow, $15.99; ISBN 978-0-06-207511-6).
