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Each month,Boris Kachkaoffers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations.

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You should read as many of them as possible.

See his picks fromlast monthand next month.

A small revolution in memoir to match the one she led in theology decades ago.

Why Religion?: A Personal Story, by Elaine Pagels (Ecco, November 6)

If youve come this far in the Berlin oeuvre, resistance is futile.

(Note: Both books available through the link below.)

After 1964sHerzogmade him world-famous, Bellow became more conservative and more imperious especially toward women.

Evening in Paradise and Welcome Home, by Lucia Berlin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 6)

Leader also shows how deeply biographical Bellows novels were: ruthless autofiction in a gilt postwar American frame.

To say this is the biography Johnson deserves is no compliment to him.

(Spoiler alert: Johnson worked with Trump.)

The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005, by Zachary Leader (Knopf, November 6)

Boynes novel is about high literature but has lower, juicier ambitions, at which it wildly succeeds.

The stakes rise as a man Koredes crushing on begins dating Ayoola.

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The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century, by Mark Lamster (Little, Brown, November 6)

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The Feral Detective, by Jonathan Lethem (Ecco, November 6)

A Ladder to the Sky, by John Boyne (Hogarth, November 13)

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