Short List: New & Noteworthy

Song of Brooklyn, by Marc Eliot, an oral history of "America's favorite borough," featuring Brooklynite contributors such as Spike Lee and Arthur Miller.

The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway's novel inspired by true events, about a cellist in besieged Sarajevo who vows to play for 22 days at the site of a bomb blast that killed 22 people.

The Plague of Doves, Louise Erdrich's 13th novel, set in and around an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota where a mysterious killing in 1911 continues to haunt relationships between whites and Indians generations later.