THE BIG FELLA: Babe Ruth and the World He Created, by Jane Leavy. (Harper Perennial, $18.99.) This detail-packed biography of the baseball legend recounts his eventful life and tracks the machinations behind his rise to an unprecedented kind of celebrity in the United States. Our reviewer, John Swansburg, said Leavy “captures Ruth’s outsize influence on American sport and culture.”

IDENTITY: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment, by Francis Fukuyama. (Picador, $17.) Fukuyama argues that an exaggerated call for recognition of group identity links movements like the “woke” activists on college campuses, white nationalism and politicized Islam — and that their demands are undermining liberal democracies. Our reviewer, Anand Giridharadas, called it a “smart, crisp book.”

THE COLLECTED NOVELS OF CHARLES WRIGHT: “The Messenger,” “The Wig,” and “Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed About.” (Harper Perennial, $17.99.) Wright’s groundbreaking trilogy about the down-and-out New York City life of a solitary, working-class intellectual originally came out between 1963 and 1973. “Reading Wright is a steep, stinging pleasure,” The Times’s Dwight Garner wrote.

FEAR: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward. (Simon & Schuster, $18.) The veteran journalist ventures inside the contentious Trump administration in its first year, finding a “nervous breakdown of the executive power of the most powerful country in the world.” The Times’s Dwight Garner called Woodward’s book “a slow tropical storm” that “delivers on the promise of his title.”