CATHERINE THE GREAT: Portrait of a Woman, by Robert K. Massie (Random House, 688 pp.)
Pulitzer Prize-winning Russian historian and biographer Robert K. Massie (鈥Peter the Great,鈥 鈥淣icholas and Alexandra,鈥 鈥淭he Romanovs鈥) offers up yet another compelling portrait of a Russian royal 鈥 this one a truly remarkable figure. (November)