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Norris Church Mailer has been a model, a teacher and an author. Her memoir, A Ticket to the Circus, covers her childhood as Little Miss Little Rock, the story of how she met her husband, Norman Mailer, and of the 33 years they spent together.

Karl Marlantes' debut novel, 30 years in the making, follows Waino Mellas, a young Ivy League student sent to Vietnam to lead a platoon. Reviewer Michael Schaub says that Marlantes comes closer than anyone before to capturing the "unrelenting terror and enormity" of the Vietnam War.

The last thing a grad student needs is another reading list, but don't worry — this one will help. Author Adam Ruben recommends three titles that will help you get through the languorous slog of post-baccalaureate education.

Milo Burke makes a hilarious failed artist, frustrated husband and recently unemployed office drone in Sam Lipsyte's The Ask, an artfully delivered dark comedy that considers the decline of middle-class America.

It took Karl Marlantes 30 years to write Matterhorn, an exhaustive and unsparing war novel. Walter Mosley takes up a new detective case in Known to Evil.

Lionel Shriver's novel So Much for That tells the story of Shep Knacker, who is about to retire to a tropical island when his wife gets diagnosed with cancer. To keep his insurance, Shep has to keep his hated job, but he soon discovers that even the full coverage of the fully employed may not be enough to keep him afloat.

Simon Johnson is co-author of the book 13 Bankers, about how deregulation and Wall Street's relationship with Washington contributed to the financial crisis. Johnson says there's no virtue whatsoever in huge banks

Jane's Fame, Claire Harman's book about the author of Emma and Sense and Sensibility, reveals the gap between her legacy — modest, indifferent to fame and devoted to her characters — and her ambition.

The anthology of African-American nature poetry features work by contemporary writers, and writers like 18th century poet Phillis Wheatley. Camille T. Dungy, the editor of the collection, says the poems offer a different view of the natural world.

Another animal fable from Life of Pi author Yann Martel, and New Yorker editor David Remnick shows how President Barack Obama's life intersects with the story of race in America.