The Humbling

by Philip Roth

Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)

an exhibition at the Museum Rietberg, Zurich, April 9–July 12, 2009; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 6, 2009– January 10, 2010

The Book of Genesis

illustrated by R. Crumb

My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran

by Haleh Esfandiari

Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression

by Morris Dickstein

First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process

by Robert D. Richardson

Too Much Happiness: Stories

by Alice Munro

Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery

by Steve Nicholls

A Meaningful Life

by L.J. Davis, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem

The Third Reich at War

by Richard J. Evans

The Holocaust in the Soviet Union

by Yitzhak Arad

A Gate at the Stairs

by Lorrie Moore

My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century

by Adina Hoffman

Florence 1900: The Quest for Arcadia

by Bernd Roeck, translated from the German by Stewart Spencer

What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe

by Anthony Grafton