EUROPE BETWEEN THE OCEANS: 9000 BC to AD 1000 
By Barry Cunliffe (Yale)

BEETHOVEN WAS ONE-SIXTEENTH BLACK and Other Stories 
By Nadine Gordimer (FSG)

NUREYEV: The Life 
By Julie Kavanagh (Pantheon)

AUSTERITY BRITAIN: 1945–51 
By David Kynaston (Bloomsbury)

NETHERLAND 
By Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon)

OLIVE KITTERIDGE 
By Elizabeth Strout (Random House)