Complete book coverage for Sept. 6, 2009

Yes, the history, culture and countryside are to be savored, but why let them come between you and a good book?

His new book, ‘The Anthologist,’ is a novel within an novel featuring a character who sheds light on his creator.

A new retrospective, which includes uncut versions of some of his short stories, takes us farther along on his path.

The story of a headstrong, independent woman in 19th century England.

Charlie Huston’s ‘My Dead Body’ takes readers into a murky world of vampish thugs beneath the city.

What was true and false about her life? Only Coco knows.

A sympathetic, well-wrought story of a brilliant young woman’s slow crawl toward self-understanding after her life is upended by a horrible accident.

The music critic’s diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome at age 45 represented a personal epiphany of sorts.

A young scientist’s journey to 18th century Australia becomes a meditation on the West’s influence -- not always for the better -- on so-called primitive peoples.

Plus: ‘Going Away Shoes’; ‘Across the Endless River’

Fiction Weeks on list1.The White Queen by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone: $25.99) The wars of the Plantagenets, who ruled England before the Tudors, enmeshed with the mystery of the missing princes in the Tower of London.2 2.South of Broad by Pat Conroy (Nan A.

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