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In the 70s, Gail Sheeny's classic Passages shepherded readers through adulthood. In Daring: My Passages y (Morrow), Sheehy (a V.F. contributing editor) recounts her own struggles on the rocky journey from 60s reporter to celebrated journalist, wife, and mother. Mandy Aftel's seductive Fragrant (Riverhead) plumbs the power of ancient and exotic smells to ignite desire, discovery, and transcendence. Jonathan Dorman's Landslide (Random House) argues that ¾⅞¾¾¾ Z the dueling ¾: mythologies of L.B.J. and Reagan in the 60s triggered the death of consensus politics. Matt Bai nails the Gary Hart affair as the moment politics went tabloid in All the Truth Is Out (Knopf). New Republic editor Franklin Foer commemorates 100 years of Insurrections of the Mind (Harper). Poet Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf) presents a radical portrait of our "post-racial" society. The poems in Dorothea Lasky's Rome (Liveright) conquer grief and lust with abandon. How Google Works (Grand Central) is one of the great Digital Age mysteries; the company's top dogs Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg explain. New York Mid-Century (Vendome) was the epicenter of the art world; Annie Cohen-Solal, V.F contributing editor Paul Goldberger, and Robert Gottlieb relive the glory. Dylan Landis's Rainey Royal (SoHo Press) is like its heroine: fierce, winning, and sharp as a blade. Rhonda K. Garelick sews up the life of fashion revolutionary and branding genius Coco Chanel in Mademoiselle (Random House). The attempted assassination of Bob Marley sparks Marlon James's A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead). The saucy Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, and Sophie Mas divulge How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are (Doubleday). Britain's demon interviewer Lynn Barber makes hay in A Curious Career (Bloomsbury). "Serial wife" Margo Howard's philosophy is Eat, Drink and Remarry (Harlequin). Steve Almond drafts the incendiary Against Football (Melville House). Arthur Elgort displays his five decades' worth of photographs in The Big Picture (Steidl). The 25th anniversary edition of V.F contributing editor Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker (Norton) pays off. Lenny Kravitz sets it out in Lenny Krcivitz (Rizzoli). Jean-Pierre Laffont saw America from the 1960s to the 1990s as a Photographer's Paradise (Glitterati). John Lahr raises the curtain on Tennessee Williams (Norton). Atul Gawande meditates on Being Mortal (Metropolitan). Kevin Garvin (with John Harrisson) plates Neiman Marcus Cooks (Rizzoli). Mario Batali serves America— Farm to Table (Grand Central) with Jim Webster. All of Hilary Gumbel's royalties from Unichef (Glitterati) go to UNICEF. ELISSA SCHAPPELL