What We're Reading

NPR highlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

Best of the Month

Amazon's editors make their selections for the best books of March.

National Book Critics Circle Awards

The winners of the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced last week.

Fiction:

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Biography:

How to Live: Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell

General Nonfiction:

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Autobiography:

Half a Life by Darin Strauss

What We're Reading

NPR spotlights new books in What We're Reading.

Indie Next

Check out the recommendations from independent booksellers in the March Indie Next List.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos

Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear by Seth Mnookin

Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books by William Kuhn

Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home, Uncovering the Tragic Reality of PTSD by David Phillips

April Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming releases:

Fiction:
I'll Walk Alone by Mary Higgins Clark
Miles to Go by Richard Paul Evans
Secret Life of Damian Spinelli by Dianne Miller
Crunch Time by Diane Mott Davidson
Ghost Story by Jim Butcher
No Rest for the Wicked by David Baldacci, et. al.
Elizabeth I by Margaret George
The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer

44 Charles Street by Danielle Steel
The Sixth Man by David Baldacci
Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts
Save Me by Lisa Scottoline
Mobbed by Carol Higgins Clark
The Silver Boat by Luanne Rice
Eve by Iris Johansen
Treason at Lisson Grove by Anne Perry
Born of Shadows by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Bel-Air Dead by Stuart Woods
My New American Life by Francine Prose

Nonfiction:
Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
Through My Eyes by Tim Tebow
The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs by Jim Rasenberger
Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being by Martin Seligman
A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher by Joel Achenbach
First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth by Marc Kaufman