NYT Books

For the obsessed protagonist of Marisa Kashino’s darkly comic debut novel, “Best Offer Wins,” real estate is blood sport.

Olga Tokarczuk’s “House of Day, House of Night” brings together a constellation of characters and legends in a Polish border region.

In December, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Ian McEwan’s latest novel, about a long-lost poem, the 2014 dinner party where it was read and the future dystopia that embraced it.

Jennifer L. Holm’s “Outside” and Rebecca Stead’s “The Experiment” both feature well-meaning grown-ups who do everything to protect their kids — and fail.

In a bold new history, Sven Beckert traces the origins of our modern economy, from global port cities to the halls of power.

In the thrilling “Family of Spies,” Christine Kuehn tells the story of learning the darkest of secrets.

Carla Kaplan’s biography “Troublemaker” focuses on the fierce political commitments of the journalist best known for “The American Way of Death.”

The title of Daniel Swift’s book “The Dream Factory,” about the creative and capitalist conditions of Elizabethan drama, tellingly evokes the commercial aspirations of old Hollywood.

In “The Butterfly Thief,” Walter Marsh tells the story of a notorious crime and its eccentric perpetrator.

In a new book, Paul Gillingham tells the story of a nation that has thrived because of its diversity, not in spite of it.