Weekend picks for book lovers

• 'Love Anthony' focuses on autism
• 'The Oath' examines the current Supreme Court and its relationship with President Obama
• Other books of note: 'My American Revolution,' 'Talking to the Dead,' 'The Cutting Season'

What should you read this weekend? Here are a few suggestions from USA TODAY's book staff.

Love Anthony by Lisa Genova; Gallery Books, 309 pp., $26; fiction

Lisa Genova's novels ring true. A neuroscientist who worked in research before trying her hand as a novelist, she wisely decided to hang around the world she knows well. Still Alice, her highly acclaimed debut novel, was about a woman battling Alzheimer's.

And now she's written a novel that focuses on one of today's hot-button medical issues -- autism.

Love Anthony revolves around the life of a young boy (Anthony) who dies before he reaches the age of 10, and his family which struggles with the challenges of raising an autistic child. Anyone who has had even a passing contact with an autistic child will relate.

USA TODAY says *** ½ out of four. "Beautifully written and poignant to the point of heartbreak… Try not to weep."

The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin; Doubleday, 352 pp., $28.95; non-fiction

Toobin -- New Yorker staff writer, attorney and CNN analyst -- draws on first-hand interviews with the justices and their clerks for this portrait of the court and its relationship with the president.

USA TODAY *** ½. A "polished and thoughtful dissection of the current Court."

My American Revolution by Robert Sullivan; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 259 pp., $26; non-fiction

Sullivan, who lives in Brooklyn, offers a personal look at less-celebrated landmarks from the American Revolution, visiting forgotten and neglected sites in New York and New Jersey.

USA TODAY says *** ½. "A delightful and quirky history lesson."

Talking to the Dead by Harry Bingham; Delacorte, 352 pp., $26, fiction

Welsh Detective Constable Fiona Griffiths -- who rivals Lizbeth Slander in guts and determination -- is on the hunt for the killer of a young mother and her daughter in one of Cardiff's rougher neighborhoods.

USA TODAY says ****. "Gritty, compelling."

The Cutting Season by Attica Locke; Harper, 384 pp., $25.99; fiction

A woman who works at a Louisiana plantation where her ancestors were once enslaved gets pulled into finding a murderer.

USA TODAY says ***. "Dripping with southern Gothic atmosphere."

Contributing reviewers: Craig Wilson, Matt Damsker, Bob Minzesheimer and Carol Memmott