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“The Rouse,” by China Miéville, is a decade-spanning epic about a secret military unit trying to channel supernatural forces.

In “Exit Party,” by Emily St. John Mandel, two versions of America’s future crash into each other.

In John Green’s “Hollywood, Ending,” two young actors navigate the highs and lows of Hollywood.

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In “When America Roared,” Jonathan Kaufman draws together a bushel of figures who thrived in one fateful decade.

In “Ausländer,” Michael Moritz, the managing partner of a venture capital firm, examines his inheritance.

In “True North,” the veteran travel writer Paul Theroux crisscrosses the country of his forebears for insights about how it differs from his own.

In “Live Laugh Love,” Kristin Kobes Du Mez examines how Christian women absorbed the idea that material abundance was evidence of divine favor.

In a new book, the fashion historian Kate Strasdin looks at the makers who designed the monarch’s sartorial persona.

In Sarah Anderson’s satirical novel, “Fallow,” a debt-laden woman becomes a professional surrogate for a corporate behemoth.