This article originally appeared in the September 2016 issue of ELLE.

If you fancy photographs of famous men turning our ideas of sexiness upside down: Red-Blooded American Male, by Robert Trachtenberg ( ). Channing Tatum, Tracy Morgan, Jonah Hill, Kevin Hart, Will Arnett (on the cover, his shapely legs in fishnets), and many more.

If you like a postmodern, high-concept Brady Bunch with a happy blending, but also death, guilt, and literary betrayal: Commonwealth ( ), by Ann Patchett. The author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder swears she made this one up, "but it's made from things I knew and understood."

If you are worried about the media-proclaimed narcissism epidemic, Kristin Dombek's clear-eyed and empathic reported book-length essay, The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism ( ), will engage and surprise you.

If you like the idea of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar meets Katharine Graham's Personal History, you will love Ruth Franklin's biography, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life ( ). Jackson merged horror and comedy, love of career and love of motherhood in her works, and achieved and suffered greatly as a consequence.

If you are among the multitudes who have a Bill Murray story (viz: "I was in the airport bar, and who sat down next to me but Bill Murray?"), The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing ( ), by Gavin Edwards, will speak to you.

If you dig best seller Colson Whitehead's ingenious novelistic stylings (Zone One, The Intuitionist), you'll follow teen slave Cora to the ends of the earth in The Underground Railroad ( ), an inspired and wrenching twist on the perilous antebellum journeys by slaves in the South to freedom in the North.

If you can't sleep and need an antidote to your troubled nocturnal thrashings, Lenny editor Jessica Grose's delightfully sly second novel, Soulmates ( ), features a scandalous mystery at a remote yoga retreat and a sleuthing divorcée named Dana.

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