Complete book coverage for March 14, 2010

Stories soar to imaginative heights and into unexpected dimensions in ‘Real Unreal: Best American Fantasy, Volume 3.’

Biographer Laura Skandera Trombley gives the author’s 450-page rant against a former personal assistant the historical context and credibility that had been long missing.

A comic-strip genius covers his political activism, creative process and more in a frank, delightful memoir.

The cruelties of war are explored through the eyes of a Korean War orphan.

Crises, the author shows in his latest story collection, can also produce unexpected moments of grace.

This collection, published after his death, holds little treasures.

A masterful, but unfinished novel of life in Stalin’s Russia.

Plus: ‘Breakfast With Socrates,’ ‘Still Life’ and ‘Ripe’

Fiction Weeks on list1.The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a college graduate become intertwined as they change a Mississippi town.40 2.The Man From Beijing by Henning Mankell (Knopf: $25.95) A transcontinental search is under way for the truth behind a massacre in a Swedish village. 2 3.The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson (Knopf: $25.95) A hacker implicated in two murders must revisit her past to prove her innocence. 28 4.Split Image by Robert B.

Fiction 1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ($14.95) 2.