Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, champion of women’s rights (and men’s, as she would say) is the subject of Notorious RBG, an enjoyably readable biography filled with opinion excerpts and marginalia from her landmark arguments in the cause of equal rights.

In Fuzzy Mud, children’s author Louis Sachar, famous for his earlier Holes, writes a cautionary tale of cell division gone mad. It’s a perfect selection as we head into the spring season.

And Bill Bryson is back in the United Kingdom, having drawn the longest straight line possible on the map of Great Britain. In The Road to Little Dribbling, he proceeds along that line, from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath, on another quirky tour of his adopted country.