Malcolm X By Manning Marable (Viking, $30)
A new biography offers a more complete look at the life of the cultural icon.
The Sisters Brothers By Patrick deWitt (Ecco, $24.99)
Picaresque misadventures punctuate this Western yarn, humorously spun.
The Year We Left Home By Jean Thompson (Simon and Schuster, $25)
Lyrical novel follows a Midwestern family through 40 years of disappointments and triumphs.
Big Girl Small By Rachel DeWoskin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25)
Sardonic, self-aware narration propels this wonderful novel about high school.
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