The best new books to read: Top releases, updated weekly

Each week, The Post compiles the buzziest new books.Have a look at our favorite titles in recent weeks.

Michel Houellebecq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)The latest from the celebrated French writer is set in a chaotic, troubled France in the year 2027.Paul Raison, an adviser to the country’s financial minister, navigates both personal and professional turbulence.

After his dad has a stroke, Raison leaves Paris and returns to his hometown in the country, where he and siblings try to heal their relationships with their ailing patriarch.Michael Silver (W.W.

Norton & Company)Longtime sports journalist Silver looks at how Kyle Shanahan shook up the football world when, in 2008, he became the NFL’s younger offensive coordinator and developed a bold new approach to coaching.Dava Sobel (Atlantic Monthly Press)Sobel was a Pulitzer finalist with “Galileo’s Daughter.” Here she zones in on Curie, looking at not just her famous scientific achievements but also how she blazed a path for women in science by training young women in her lab.Edited by Zibby Owens (Zibby Books)Seventy-five writers, including Daphne Merkin, Annabelle Gurwitch and The Post’s David Christopher Kaufman share thoughts on Jewish faith and culture — and how both have been tested and reimagined in the year since the Hamas attack on Israel.Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough (Random House)The late Lisa Marie teamed up with her daughter to write down the stories of her extraordinary life.Presley recalls her youth at Graceland, the horror of finding Elvis’s dead body, her marriage to Michael Jackson and much, much more.Oliver Burkeman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Burkeman’s “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals” was a bestseller thanks to its streamlined, witty and practical advice.

Here he applies the same approach to self-reflection, offering up 28 short chapters to reflect upon.Louise Erdrich (Harper)The latest from Erdrich, who won a Pulitzer prize for “The Night Watch...

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