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What should you read this weekend? USA TODAY's picks for book lovers include Dennis Lehane's new Prohibition crime novel, and a modern Rear Window-style thriller by Linwood Barclay.

Live By Night by Dennis Lehane, William Morrow, 402 pp., fiction

It's easy to see why Leonardo DiCaprio's production company has bought the film rights to Live by Night, Dennis Lehane's Prohibition-era novel.

Lehane, who's had three novels — Mystic River, Shutter Island and Gone, Baby, Gone — turned into popular movies, writes screen-ready dialogue.

Live By Night, set between 1926 and 1935, mostly in Boston and Tampa, shares a few characters with Lehane's The Given Day. Its protagonist, Joe Coughlin, is the youngest son of Boston's deputy police chief who battled his older son, Danny, a union leader, in The Given Day. Joe grows up to be a gangster, or as he prefers to think of himself, an outlaw.

USA TODAY says *** out of four. "A gangster/love story with familiar themes about betrayal and loyalty…a delight to read."

Trust Your Eyes by Linwood Barclay, New American Library, 498 pp., fiction

Thomas Kilbride, obsessed with Whirl360.com (think Google Street View), thinks he has witnessed a murder during a virtual visit to a New York City street in Barclay's thriller.

USA TODAY says ****. "Trust Your Eyes is the web equivalent of
downloading pure entertainment straight into your brain."

The Round House by Louise Erdrich, Harper, 317 pp., fiction

On a North Dakota reservation in the late 1980s, an Ojibwe woman is viciously attacked and raped and left traumatized. Her 13-year-old son, Joe, narrates the story years later as an adult reflecting back on a horrific summer of his youth.

USA TODAY says ****. "Among Erdrich's best work… impossible to forget."

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."

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

Genova (Still Alice) tackles one of today's hot-button medical issues -- autism. Her new novel is about a young boy (Anthony) who dies before he reaches the age of 10, and his family's struggles with the challenges of raising an autistic child.

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

Contributing reviewers: Bob Minzesheimer, Carmela Ciuraru, Carol Memmott and Craig Wilson

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