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BOOKS

Take a look at this trio of new books hitting the shelves:

“BEFORE YOU JUDGE ME: The Triumph and Tragedy of Michael Jackson’s Last Days,” by Tavis Smiley and David Ritz (Little, Brown; $27)

The television and radio host rejoins his collaborator from “Death of a King” and “My Journey With Maya” to chronicle the King of Pop’s final 16 weeks, as he prepared for a comeback tour and battled drug addiction and health problems.

“THE MANDIBLES: A Family, 2029-2047,” by Lionel Shriver (Harper, $27.99)

The new novel by the author of “We Need to Talk About Kevin” and “Big Brother” returns with an apocalyptic family saga set in a future America where the economy has collapsed, thanks to Chinese hackers and the introduction of a new international currency, the bancor. The Mandibles, expecting to inherit a fortune, instead must fend for themselves in a rudderless society.

“MY FATHER AND ATTICUS FINCH: A Lawyer’s Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama,” by Joseph Madison Beck (W.W. Norton, $25.95)

Was the Atticus Finch of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” inspired by a real-life figure? (We’ll leave the Atticus of “Go Set a Watchman.”) In this memoir, Beck tells the story of his father, an attorney who defended a black man accused of raping a white woman in a highly publicized trial when Harper Lee was 12.