Telegraph Avenue By Michael Chabon (HarperCollins, $27.99)

Saga of two couples running besieged vinyl and midwife businesses rocks a big multicultural mix of love, loss, change, and how we live now.

Bill and Hillary By William H. Chafe (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28)

A chronicle of the marriage of America’s power couple.

Subversives By Seth Rosenfeld (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $40)

Rosenfeld explores Ronald Reagan’s role as a longtime informant to
J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.