Sheila Bair, the former head of the FDIC, gives a comprehensive and accessible breakdown of the 2008 financial crisis. Details of behind-the-scenes negotiations and revelations about the power players offer a better sense of the bigger economic picture we face.
Set in Saudi Arabia, a middle-aged American businessman finds himself obsolete, waiting in the desert for the King's arrival. Dave Eggers' National Book Award-nominated novel tells a compelling tale of how we, globally, got to this moment in time.
"I told President Obama I'm ready to fight alongside him until November," said former President Bill Clinton. Clinton's most recent book is an excellent source describing his current political views, and it addresses some pertinent questions about our government today.
What better timing? With Occupy Wall Street well under way, in a new book, The High-Beta Rich, by Wall Street Journal columnist Robert Frank, we actually get a balanced, unvarnished look into the community of the top one percent.
Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings: A New York Epic
A New Tale from Paulo Coelho: Manuscript Found in Accra
A Modern Classic That Endures: Robert Penn Warren's All the King’s Men
Oceans Eleven Comes to the YA Set: Ally Carter's Perfect Scoundrels
Some Heat Before Summer: Long Simmering Spring by Elisabeth Barrett
Alice Munro
Barbara Kingsolver
George Saunders
Haruki Murakami
Abigail Pollak
Allyson Pearl
Andrew Agudo
Jen Marshall
Joe Muscolino
Rita D. Jacobs
