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A middle-age man fighting illness and marital woe heads west in Ben Markovits’s poignant new novel, a Booker Prize finalist.

Two novels center on small acts of valor, from a little onion’s quest to free his unjustly imprisoned father to an orphaned boy carrying messages for the French Resistance.

Ian McEwan’s latest novel, one of the Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2025, is a literary mystery about a scholar’s search for a long-lost poem.

In January, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Xenobe Purvis’s debut novel, about a small English village grappling with a dangerous rumor.

Betty Fussell’s new memoir offers insights on aging, stories about love and a recipe for coyote pie.

In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who underwrote empires in Asia and North Africa.

The teen detectives and alien enigmas of the Nova Scotia-set “Hobtown Mystery Stories” return for a third supernatural outing.

Tracy K. Smith, a former U.S. poet laureate, makes the case in a new book of criticism.

“Furious Minds,” by Laura K. Field, traces the ascendancy of hard-right thinkers whose contempt for liberal democracy is shaping American politics.

In “Cape Fever,” a young maid finds herself dealing with ghosts from the past and a manipulative employer.