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He opened the door for future generations of poets of color to use their own voices.

“Into Siberia” traces the journalist George Kennan’s long-forgotten trip to Russia in 1885.

Paul Thomas Murphy’s “Falling Rocket” focuses on the explosive trial that divided the London art world.

It was an amazing year for horror. Here are 10 great titles that stood out.

“Prophet Song,” a novel by Paul Lynch, is set in Dublin during a political crisis.

Samantha Harvey’s fifth novel, “Orbital,” follows a day in the life of six international astronauts circling Earth on a space station.

In Gabrielle Korn’s debut novel, “Yours for the Taking,” a feminist cultural icon runs a lifesaving artificial habitat, but a secret, and controversial, agenda guides her project.

It’s been a roller coaster of a year. Thankfully, we’ve had novels to whisk us to days gone by, even if those eras had their own highs and lows.

In “Flores and Miss Paula,” Melissa Rivero takes readers inside a Brooklyn apartment where family ties are uncomfortably snug.

In “Most Delicious Poison,” Noah Whiteman explores nature’s fine line between killing and curing.