NYT Books

A new novel, “The Butcher’s Daughter,” imagines the haunting past of Mrs. Lovett, the infamous baker who assisted the serial killer Sweeney Todd.

In “The Deserters,” Mathias Énard weaves the story of a lone soldier with that of a brilliant scholar.

Through an arduous summer of hiking, 13-year-old Finn Connelly finds common ground with his late firefighter father in Kate Messner’s new verse novel.

In “Girl on Girl,” Sophie Gilbert makes a searing case that trends from the 1990s and 2000s, online and off, damaged young women in deep, dark ways.

In “Medicine River,” Mary Annette Pember examines a national shame — and the trauma it wrought in her own family.

The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize winner’s trilogy about the war animates an entire world — from battlefields and commanders to sounds and smells.

Keith McNally tracks his staggering successes — and failures — in his new memoir, “I Regret Almost Everything.”

In the unsentimental memoir “The Golden Hour,” Matthew Specktor ponders, among others, the father who succeeded in a punishing business now in its waning glory.

In “Waste Wars,” Alexander Clapp shows us in depressing detail just what our Big Junk industry is doing to the rest of the world.

In a new book, the mathematical epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explains how certainty, even in math, can be an illusion.