Best Books of the Month

Amazon's editors have selected their choices for the best books of August.  This month's selections include new titles from Mary Roach (Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex), Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections), and Laura Lippman (What the Dead Know, Life Sentences).