WEST OF HERE , by Jonathan Evison (Algonquin, $24.95). A voracious story packed with daring folks who dream of carving lives onto the last frontier: the uncharted interior of the Olympic Peninsula in 1889. — R.C.
Washington Post critics pick the best books for summer reading
NONFICTION
BOSSYPANTS , by Tina Fey (Little, Brown, $26.99). Just because she’s funny doesn’t mean she’s not fuming.
— Nicole Arthur
BRANCH RICKEY, by Jimmy Breslin (Viking, $19.95). The story of the man who integrated baseball told with Breslin’s inimitable grit and grace.
— Steven Levingston
CHINABERRY SIDEWALKS , by Rodney Crowell (Knopf, $24.95). A memoir of Crowell’s childhood that is wistful and profane, heartbreaking and hilarious, loving and angry, proud and self-lacerating. — J.Y.
CRAZY U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College , by Andrew Ferguson (Simon & Schuster, $25). Ferguson gives parents of high school seniors insight into the wacky science of college admissions. — S.L.
ENDGAME: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall — From America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness , by Frank Brady (Crown, $25.99). A biography worthy of its charismatic subject. — M.D.
IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin , by Erik Larson (Crown, $26). Reads like an elegant thriller.
— Philip Kerr
LOST IN SHANGRI-LA: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II , by Mitchell Zuckoff (Harper, $26.99). After their Army plane crashes in New Guinea, the three survivors find themselves trapped in a merciless jungle surrounded by tribes engaged in cannibalistic warfare. — David Grann
THE MAGNETIC NORTH: Notes from the Arctic Circle , by Sara Wheeler (Farrar Straus Giroux, $26). In this smashing book, the author introduces the reader to the aching beauty the Arctic region.
— D.D.
MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything , by Joshua Foer (Penguin Press, $26.95). A formerly absent-minded young man recounts how he became the 2006 U.S. memory champion. — M.A.
NO BIKING IN THE HOUSE WITHOUT A HELMET , by Melissa Fay Greene (Farrar Straus Giroux, $26). A thoughtful story of a couple who expanded their family to embrace five orphans from Bulgaria and Ethiopia. — Suki Casanave
RAWHIDE DOWN: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan , by Del Quentin Wilber (Henry Holt, $27). Although the book ostensibly covers only one day, it actually deals with a larger historical footprint. — David Baldacci
READING MY FATHER , by Alexandra Styron (Scribner, $25). An attempt by the daughter of William Styron to make sense of the discrepancy between her father’s deeply moral novels and his egregious behavior. — Heller McAlpin
STOLEN WORLD: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery , by Jennie Erin Smith (Crown, $25). These reptile traders are stunningly innovative, dizzyingly incompetent and quite sociopathic. — Carolyn See
THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan, by Jeff Greenfield (Putnam, $26.95). A book political junkies will adore.
— Bryan Burrough
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