Recommended English book list: Obama‘s latest Memoir

6. The Kingdom

Author: Jo Nesbo.

Translator: Robert Ferguson.

Publisher: Knopf, 10 November

The Master of Norwegian crime fiction -- our columnist once said, no one can “make my flesh creep like Nesbaud” -- depicts a family of two brothers bound together by a family secret.

7.  The Nine Lives in Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State

Author: Declan Walsh.

Walsh is a long time international correspondent for The New York Times, reported from Pakistan and lived there for nearly a decade before being fired from government television in 2013. Over there, he painted a portrait of the country based on the lives of nine people, including this country’s founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

8. Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

Author: Lauren Redniss

Publisher: Random House, 11 November

For years, members of the San Carlos Apache tribe have fought to keep this copper-rich land from being mined. Redniss is a writer and artist who combines reports and illustrations to record the battles going on in southern Arizona, including oral history, anthropological records, etc.

9. The Orchard

Author:  David Hopen.

Publisher: Ecco, 17 November

As the protagonist of this debut novel, teenage Ari grew up in an ultra-orthodox Brooklyn community, and studied alone for years. But his sudden move to an affluent Florida suburb, where “everyone has chagall”, made him reconsider his beliefs and values.

10. The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography

Author Hilary Holladay.

Publisher: Nan A. Talese, 17 November

This is a comprehensive biography of Rich. When Rich died in 2012, she was one of the most popular poets of her generation and a leading representative of feminism in the United States. Holladay spent many years writing the book and made Rich’s constant self-reinvention of a central theme of her work.

11. Strongman: Mussolini to the Present

Author: Ruth Ben-Ghiat.

Publisher: NORTON, November 10

The writer is an Italian history professor, and he connects U.S. President Donald Trump with a range of figures around the world, from Libya's Moammar Gadhafi to Russia's Vladimir Putin.