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The best-selling author Brynne Weaver recommends novels that dial up the emotional drama for high-stakes payoffs.

Lily King’s new novel, “Heart the Lover,” is a profoundly affecting story of romantic entanglement by a master of the genre.

A crackling new biography captures the formidable personality and often eerie writings of the “Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” creator Muriel Spark.

“Picket Line,” which was inspired by Cesar Chavez and his union campaigns, has been published for the first time.

“What We Can Know” follows a scholarly quest amid the ruins of civilization.

Jane Austen’s classic, about the tortured romance of two people frazzled by miscommunications and assumptions, still feels fresh 250 years after Austen’s birth.

In October, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Stephen Graham Jones’s latest horror novel, about an Indigenous man who is turned into a vampire.

In the small-scale world of Laura Amy Schlitz’s novel “The Winter of the Dollhouse,” the emotional stakes are both intimate and enormous.

Dan Chaon’s latest novel, “One of Us,” dances around a great showman, a demented “uncle” and a cast of fascinating misfits.

In “We Love You, Bunny,” the novelist Mona Awad revisits the gleefully vicious campus satire of her 2019 hit, “Bunny.” We’re all ears.