1) Anne-Marie Slaughter recommends Three Books about China, which look at that nation's leaders, economy, and its past; 2) Tennis great Billie Jean King's new book "Pressure is a Privelege" revisits the historic battle of the sexes game with Bobby Riggs; 3) Writer Tony Giardina says you must read "Movie Love in the Fifties" by James Harvey; 4) "My Mercedes Is Not For Sale" by Dutch journalist Jeroen van Bergeijk shows that nearly everyone in Africa wants to buy one; 5) Children's book author Lauren Child, creator of the characters Clarice Bean, and Charlie & Lola LESS

1) Vientiane, the capital city of Laos is the setting for Colin Cotterill's "Dr. Siri" mystery novels; 2) 2008 is the year of Richard Wright's centennial - Juan Williams speaks with Julia Wright, daughter of the author of "Black Boy" and "Native Son"; 3) Three Books with "Bark and Bite" for the dog days of summer; 4) Writer Walter Dean Myers tries to convey the African American experience in fiction to another generation; 5) "Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States" by Chris Fair brings together the foods and politics of Iran, Iraq and North Korea LESS

1) "The Obama Nation" by Jerome Corsi is hitting bookstore shelves and bestseller lists - despite factual inaccuracies; 2) A deeper look at the political "Swift-booking" industry; 3) In "Warrior Girls" Michael Sokolove explores the risk of injuries faced by young female athletes; 4) A continuing fight over the rights to some of John Steinbeck's most famous books; 5) Historian Jason Goodwin uses the Istanbul of the past in his mystery novels, including his latest, "The Snake Stone"; 6) Alan Cheuse reviews "The Gift of Rain" and "Mosquito" - two novels set in Southern Asia LESS

1) Matt Beynon Rees sets his new mystery, "The Samaritan's Secret" in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank; 2) The owner of a bookstore in Decatur, Georgia is soliciting funds from customers to help pay bills; 3) Writers from Santa Cruz attempt to capture the play of light and sun on the Pacific Ocean; 4) Alan Cheuse reviews Nobel prize winner Doris Lessing's new novel "Alfred & Emily"; 5) Publication of the controversial historical novel "The Jewel of Medina" by Sherry Jones was postponed over concerns of offending Muslims LESS

1) Morning Edition's "Crime in the City" series goes to Glasgow, Scotland with the novelist Denise Mina, whose protagonist is the depressive Maureen O'Donnell; 2) "In Lincoln's Shadow" chronicles the race riots of Springfield, Illinois that erupted a century ago; 3) Michael Chabon's alternate-history novel "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" wins this year's Hugo award for Science Fiction; 4) George Orwell's diary reconceived as a blog, with each entry posted 70 years to the day later; 5) Patricia Nell Warren writes about the lives of gay athletes in her upcoming book "The Lavender Locker Room" LESS

1) Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1970, and wrote "The Gulag Archipelago" has died at the age of 89; 2) Virginia Woolf may have been accurately representing the the way the brain works in her novel "Mrs. Dalloway"; 3) Brunonia Barry's novel "The Lace Reader" is a self-publishing success story; 4) Three Books on being in a band: Tom Perotta's "The Wishbones", "Mom, Have You Seen My Leather Pants?" by Craig A. Williams, and "Fargo Rock City" Chuck Klosterman; 5) A family falls apart in Jennifer Haigh's novel "The Condition" - in which a daughter is diagnosed with Turner Syndrome, a genetic disorder that can prevent puberty in girls LESS

1) Librarians attending the "Comic-Con" convention looking for the latest Japanese manga to put on their shelves; 2) Sheryll Cashin writes her family's history of activism in "The Agitator's Daughter"; 3) Discarded Shopping lists are the inspiration for Hillary Carlip's book "a la Carte" as she transforms herself into the creators of the lists; 4) The novel "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" is set during the World War II occupation of the island off of Britain; 5) "A Few Seconds of Panic" by Stefan Fatsis describes his brief opportunity to be an NFL field goal kicker LESS

1) Randy Pausch, the professor whose "Last Lecture" led to the best-selling book about his life and lessons learned, has died at the age of 47; 2) Three Books on the topic of the environment: "American Earth", "Where the Wild Things Were", and "The Carbon Age"; 3) Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has a new book called "Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters"; 4) Three Books on Pirates, both historical and contemporary: "Under the Black Flag", "Dangerous Waters", and about pirates of intellectual property, "Free Culture" LESS

1) The most dangerous days in U.S. history: the Cuban Missile Crisis, in Michael Dobbs' new book "One Minute to Midnight"; 2) "Daring To Look" by Anne Whiston Spirn collects the iconic depression-era photographs and less well-known writings of Dorothea Lange; 3) The thriller "Illegal Action" by Stella Rimington, the former head of Britain's MI-5 intelligence agency; 4) "Three Books" on the topic of baseball; 5) The summer camp experience is remembered and deconstructed in "Camp Camp: Where Fantasy Island Meets Lord of the Flies"; 6) Alan Cheuse reviews two short story collections: "Lost in Uttar Pradesh" by Evan S. Connell, and Claire Keegan's "Walk the Blue Fields" LESS

1) Joseph Wambaugh brings experience with police departments and knowledge of the city of Los Angeles to his mystery novels and non-fiction works; 2) Henry Fleming, the protagonist of "The Red Badge of Courage" is the latest subject of the series "In Character" ; 3) Lawyer and author Stephen L. Carter's latest novel is "Palace Council"; 4) A blend of botany, faith, and mythology in Christina Meldrum's debut novel "Madapple"; 5) Kay Ryan, the newly named next U.S. Poet Laureate LESS