Readers recommend: 'The Viceroy of Ouidah' by Bruce Chatwin and many more

Tom Connelly of Smelterville, Idaho, writes:

I got lucky at Hasting's discount counter today and added Bruce Chatwin's "The Viceroy of Ouidah"; "Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov, A Life in Letters and Diaries," edited by J.A.E. Curtis, and "The Guide," by R.K. Narayan, to little bibliotheca. Soon will finish Michael Gruber's "Book of Air and Shadows." Also found a Nero Wolfe novel, "Fade to Black," by Robert Goldsborough, at a local library lobby store.