Jonathan Yardley

"Memorial Wars"

Michael Dirda

"Charles Dickens"
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Ron Charles

"The Lacuna"
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Recommended Reading

Book World presents its list of good books, including Pete Dexter's "Spooner."

• National Book Festival Video: Meet the Authors

'Dutch' in soft cover

Find out what books are hitting the paperback shelves, including William F. Buckley Jr.'s "The Reagan I Knew."

• "Ford County" by John Grisham
• "The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver
• "The Humbling" by Philip Roth

Doh! The joke's on us

John Ortved's "The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History" gives readers a colorful account of TV's longest-running program.

• "The Battle for America: The Story of an Extraordinary Election" by Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson
• "The World Has Curves: The Global Quest for the Perfect Body" by Julia Savacool

Advantage: Agassi

From fledgling prodigy to winner of all four tennis major titles, Andre Agassi produces an honest, substantive, insightful autobiography.

• "Louis D. Brandeis: A Life" by Melvin I. Urofsky

• Book review: 'Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife,' by Francine Prose
• Book review: 'The Natural History of Unicorns,' by Chris Lavers
• Poet's Choice: 'Terminal Etude' by Alissa Valles
• Washington Area Literary Calendar: Nov. 6-15, 2009
• Burroughs shares his holiday stories
• Less poetry, music but big Miami book fair goes on
• Chinese author Nien Cheng's graceful end
• Irving still spinning fiction from real life
• Palin book tour to start Nov. 18
• Grisham's short stories long on characters
• Amazon.com extends Internet price war on books

Coming to Style: Nov. 2-7

• Monday: "Risk," by Colin Harrison
• Tuesday: "Sarah From Alaska," by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe | and "The Persecution of Sarah Palin" by Matthew Continetti
• Wednesday: "The Lacuna," by Barbara Kingsolver | "The Humbling," by Philip Roth | Roundup of New Books in Paperback
• Thursday: "Charles Dickens," by Michael Slater
• Friday: "Ford County," by John Grisham
• Saturday: "Angel Time," by Anne Rice | (See the Style section on Sat.)

Coming to Outlook: Sun., Nov. 15

• The mysteries of superfreakonomics.
• Growing up in the bin Laden family.
• Why Moses belongs on Mt. Rushmore.
• Hope for animals among stories of extinction.
• And the negative side of positive thinking.