Complete book coverage for March 28, 2010

William Lindsay Gresham’s novel ‘Nightmare Alley’ draws deeply on autobiographical sources to tell the story of a doomed carnival hustler.

A writer finds that his fictional lark has been turned into a reality by someone else.

A definitive chronicle of the growth and achievement of the first black U.S. president by the prize-winning New Yorker editor.

Can global warming be funny? The author sets aside his grimmer preoccupations to follow a hapless scientist who steals a colleague’s work.

The author seeks an answer to why she shakes uncontrollably. In the process, she tries to conquer her untamed other self.

Sacred space: an exploration of the Sabbath as a religious ritual and cultural idea.

A secular Jewish family in 1980 is defined - and pulled apart - by its convictions.

It was his father Gilbert’s final novel, but it still needed polishing. Can a son find the right words?

Also reviewed: ‘Things Seen’ and ‘Solar Poems’

Fiction Weeks on list1.The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a college graduate become intertwined as they change a Mississippi town.42 2.House Rules by Jodi Picoult (Atria: $28) A teenager with Asperger’s syndrome is accused of murder.2 3.The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson (Knopf: $25.95) A hacker implicated in two murders must revisit her past to prove her innocence. 30 4.The Silent Sea by Clive Cussler (Putnam: $27.95) A search is afoot for buried pirate treasure on a small island off the coast of Washington.15.Angelology by Danielle Trussoni (Viking: $27.95) A nun races to find a secret artifact before the evil Nephilim, a race of fallen angels, find it.16.Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (Grand Central: $21.99) The ax-wielding president seeks vengeance against vampires for the death of his mother. 27.Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney (Amulet: $12.95) The adventures of Greg Heffley, a wise-cracking kid trying to survive middle school. 58.The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: $25) An elderly mother and her two grown daughters’Austen-esque lives play out in Connecticut and Manhattan.29.The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper: $26.99) A writer’s escapades encompass 1930s Mexican artist communities and Cold War America. 13 10.Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson (Random House: $25) An English widower fights to keep greedy relatives from selling a valuable family heirloom. 111.Split Image by Robert B.

Fiction 1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ($14.95) 2.