NYT Books

In an unusual act of literary synergy, two vibrant coming-of-age tales with the same title have arrived one week apart.

The celebrated German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck considers the relics of an earlier age in a newly translated essay collection.

His new collection draws from his ambitious practice of the form over nearly four decades.

A new reissue of Siegfried Kracauer’s 1928 novel “Ginster” offers a darkly humorous window into one German conscript’s inglorious journey.

Philippe Sands considers the case of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, who eluded efforts to bring him to account for state-sponsored terror in Chile.

“Shadow Ticket” follows a dancing private eye on the hunt for a missing cheese heiress. It gets even wackier from there.

In “I’m Not Trying to Be Difficult,” the star restaurateur Drew Nieporent evokes a glittering age in Manhattan hospitality.

An exuberant new biography by Jeff Chang charts the action star’s life and legacy as a breakout Asian American celebrity who paved the way for others.

In “Gotham at War,” Mike Wallace shows how the American fight against the Nazis started years before World War II, in the Big Apple.

Whether you’re Team Edward, Team Jacob or just Team Fun Book, these novels offer a similar blend of romance, fantasy and horror.