Bring Up the Bodies By Hilary Mantel (Holt, $28)

The dark second novel of what will be a trilogy tracks the fall of Anne Boleyn.

Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic

By Joe Jackson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30)

An unexpectedly gripping account of the quest to fly nonstop from New York to Paris during the Roaring Twenties.

A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and Hopeful

By Gideon Lewis-Kraus (Riverhead, $26.95)

A witty, deeply felt memoir that chronicles Kraus’s journey on three historical

pilgrimage routes.