Culture Picks are items reviewed by CL critics that you may, uh, actually want to shop for.

Here’s a selection of paperback books reviewed by writer John Grooms. Click here for full reviews.

• The Translator: A Memoir by Daoud Hari

$10.40 from Amazon.com

• Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris

$11.56 from Amazon.com

• Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

$8.97 from Amazon.com

• Life Class by Pat Barker

$10.17 from Amazon.com

• Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock

$10.17 from Amazon.com