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The author of the InvestiGators series recommends books from his childhood as well as more recent faves.

As these books show, the United States has long struggled to reconcile its imperial ambition with its founding ideals, prompting detractors at home and abroad.

“We the People,” by Jill Lepore, won the history prize, and Daniel Kraus received the fiction prize for “Angel Down.”

The nonfiction and novels we can’t stop thinking about.

The best-selling author Kelly Yang recommends mysteries set in Tinseltown, from the down and dirty to the deliciously dishy.

Just 22 and still a student, Nelio Biedermann has been compared to Thomas Mann thanks to “Lázár,” his sweeping family saga.

Tucker Carlson Books, a joint venture between Carlson’s media company and Skyhorse Publishing, will put out books by Russell Brand, Milo Yiannopoulos and more.

Zealous officials burned their predecessors’ romance novels. Now, young Muslim women in northern Nigeria publish their erotic books in installments on WhatsApp.

Our columnist on the month’s best new releases.

She vividly recalls what the novel, and others like it, meant to her mother. Her own new book is “The Glorians: Visitations From the Holy Ordinary.”