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Summer reading is clearly on the horizon, with a new novel from Scott Turow, P.D. James musing on the mystery genre, John Vaillant on the Siberian tiger, S.C. Gwynne on the Comanche Nation and time to catch up on Bob Woodward's look at Obama's Wars.

Summer reading picks are on the way: the movie tie-in edition of David Nicholl's U.K. sensation One Day and the latest from John Grisham and Stephen King. In nonfiction, it's time to get superfreaky about economics, and comedian Jimmy Fallon offers a little thanks.

In June 2009, the Iranian government executed a violent crackdown on hundreds of thousands of Iranians who protested against the re-election of President Ahmadinejad. In the process, journalist Maziar Bahari was arrested and imprisoned for 118 days. To learn about his experience, host Michel Martin speaks with Bahari, whose new book is Then They Came For Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival.

Moviegoers' fascination with superheroes may be dying down, but author Mat Johnson knows that caped crusaders are alive and well in the medium that started it all. These three books will be kryptonite to your comic book woes.

In the mountains of eastern Kentucky, a lonely, landlocked lighthouse, a great cat sanctuary, and a women's prison set the scene for Michael Koryta's latest thriller. It's spooky and supernatural, but also grapples with real world questions of love, loss and trust.

Science all but confirms that humans are hard-wired to respond to music. Studies also suggest that someday music may even help patients heal from Parkinson's disease or a stroke. In The Power of Music, Elena Mannes explores how music could play a role in health care.

Oscar Hijuelos has written eight novels exploring the Cuban-American experience. In 1990, he became the first Hispanic writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His latest work, a memoir called Thoughts Without Cigarettes, describes growing up Cuban in New York's Morningside Heights neighborhood.

Bonnie Jo Campbell's Once Upon a River is a violent but inspiring tale, packed with colorful river dwellers, factory workers, farmers, hunters, housewives and, at its center, a teenage girl with an iron gut and a heart to match.

Jim Shepard writes what he knows, but he also likes to write what he doesn't know. "I think literature is, in some ways, about the exercise of the empathetic imagination," Shepard says. "I'm always interested in stretching that capacity." You Think That's Bad is his latest collection of short stories.

Set in the late 1980s, Eleanor Henderson's bittersweet Ten Thousand Saints follows three teens as they search for belonging in a rapidly changing Manhattan.