NYT Books

My sister and I fought so bitterly over our copy of “Little Women” that our mother had to buy a second one. Obviously, we didn’t learn much from the story.

“A Truce That Is Not Peace,” the Canadian novelist Miriam Toews’s first nonfiction book since 2001, is a discursive reflection on her father’s and sister’s suicides, 10 years apart.

Austyn Wohlers’s novel, “Hothouse Bloom,” sets a solitary woman’s reawakening in a setting steeped in biblical imagery.

The writer Michael Thomas recounts his struggles, successes and fraught family history in mesmerizing detail.

“Vulture,” by Phoebe Greenwood, follows a journalist’s downward spiral in Gaza.

Life on the red planet? “Bosh and nonsense,” said one astronomer. But according to “The Martians,” plenty of self-appointed experts argued otherwise.

A graduate student must venture into the underworld to save the professor she accidentally killed in this bold new novel.

A new biography by Susana M. Morris reveals the struggles, passions and triumphs that shaped the science fiction icon and her books.

Charlotte McConaghy’s novel about one isolated family, a mysterious stranger and the secrets they all hold is just the thing for late summer.

In September, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Jane Austen’s classic, about the tortured romance of two people frazzled by miscommunications and assumptions.