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Meg Howrey’s novel “Body Language” doesn’t skimp on the kind of absurd humor that thrives in a crucible.

In “The Ghost of the Mountains,” Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi proves there is no substitute for old-fashioned field study.

The best-selling author Linwood Barclay recommends his favorite thrillers set in the corporate world.

In “Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings,” Jared Diamond considers the impact leaders might have had on the course of their civilizations.

“The Everest Mystery” takes on the enduring puzzle of two climbers’ fates — and pays tribute to the often-overlooked Sandy Irvine.

In “53 Days,” the historian Timothy W. Ryback shows how the Nazis used democratic means to destroy German democracy.

“American Scoundrel” traces the career of Roy Cohn, whose smash-mouth politics continue to shape our own.

The journalist Jon Ronson finds metaphor and meaning in the story of one man’s baronial fantasia and others like him who are living unmoored from reality.

Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.

In “Up on Cove Mountain” Earl Swift confronts a place — and a tragedy — that haunts him.