Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies By Ben Macintyre (Crown, $26)

Ben Macintyre spins a WWII spy story that details the lies and exploits of a band of British double agents that had the Germans looking the other way on D-Day.

The Way of the World By Nicholson Baker (Simon and Schuster, $25)

Nicholson Baker’s 14th book prompts reflection on his extraordinary writing career.

All We Know: Three Lives By Lisa Cohen (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $30)

A gorgeously written book that makes a kind of map of female genius and its myriad enemies.