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After devoting her first novel to her wild mother, Violaine Huisman focuses her second on her father, a man who amassed wealth, love affairs and stories.

Tae Keller’s new novel, “When Tomorrow Burns,” offers reassuring answers to the question, “What do you do when your biggest fear comes true?”

In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

A new book by Patrick Radden Keefe retraces the secret life of a 19-year-old Londoner who fell in with a gangster underworld.

In this novel, a group of authors race to finish a mystery manuscript, only to find themselves part of a lethal plot.

The Polish best seller “Hexes of the Deadwood Forest” is like a post-porn fever dream of Eastern European magic realism crossed with a plant-based “Joy of Sex.”

In Emma Straub’s latest novel, “American Fantasy,” a pop group’s midlife return provides fodder for both comedy and redemption on the high seas.

“Corto Maltese,” Hugo Pratt’s influential 1967 graphic novel, returns, with just as much to say about childhood during wartime.

In Caro Claire Burke’s novel, “Yesteryear,” a homesteading momfluencer can no longer hide the scandal swirling just below the surface.

The well-born protagonist of Nancy Lemann’s novel “The Oyster Diaries” returns home and immediately feels like an outsider.