Katherine Heiny marries wit and wonder in Standard Deviation (Knopf). Jonathan Gould tries a little tenderness with Otis Redding (Crown). John McEnroe singles out and doubles down in But Seriously (Little, Brown). Anthony Horowitz'sMagpie Murders (Harper) nests in the crime-fiction tradition. The streets are paved with paparazzi in Kevin Kwan'sRich People Problems (Doubleday). Julia Glass climbs into A House Among the Trees (Pantheon). Will Bardenwerper expertly examines Saddam Hussein, The Prisoner in His Palace (Scribner). Teju Cole sees through the Blind Spot (Random House). Thomas Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie recapture the campaign trail on The Road to Camelot (Simon & Schuster). Fascism festers on the farm in Thomas E. Ricks's dual biography of Churchill and Orwell (Penguin Press). Richard A. Clarke and R. P. Eddy caution against calamity in Warnings (Ecco). Dickensian deeds direct Alain Mabanckou'sBlack Moses (New Press). Sarah Perry'sThe Essex Serpent (Custom House) coils around our minds. Ann Beattie'sThe Accomplished Guest (Scribner) never overstays her welcome. Catherine Lacey has all The Answers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Adam Lashinsky's Wild Ride (Portfolio) surges with Uber gossip. Andrew Essex foresees The End of Advertising (Spiegel & Grau). Jessica Flint and Anna Kavaliunas cook up Matcha (Dovetail). Laughter trumps sorrow in candid comedian Eddie Izzard'sBelieve Me (Blue Rider). The sun sets on the 70s surf scene in Daniel Riley'sFly Me (Little, Brown). And Kevin Hart lays out the life lessons in I Can't Make This Up (37 Ink). S.C.