NYT Books

Josh Weil’s new novel follows an autistic trapper on an odyssey during the California gold rush.

Set in the decades after the Great Hunger, “Land” is a rich portrait of family life amid Ireland’s long struggle against British rule.

In a quietly devastating new book, two journalists chart the protest movements fighting for change inside the country.

In “1873,” the historian and financier Liaquat Ahamed traces the political consequences of booming markets that left a lot of people behind.

A collection of Harold Bloom’s letters details the working life of one of America’s most influential intellects.

In “Rabbit, Fox, Tar,” a white neighborhood’s local election is complicated when a mysterious, dark-skinned woman suddenly appears in town.

In Sonia Feldman’s novel, “Girl’s Girl,” the delicate balance of a Gen Z friend group is unsettled over one Ohio summer.

Meg Wolitzer and Charlie Panek’s “Found Sound” and Aida Salazar’s “Stream” send their protagonists on a listening (and healing) tour of real life.

In June, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss a novel about a tradwife who wakes up in 1855, living the pioneer life she has been performing online.

In her book “Sublimation,” Isabel J. Kim reimagines the dilemmas of immigration through a science fiction story about scheming clones.