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Kristen Arnett’s new novel, “Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One,” follows a woman grappling with grief and love while pursuing her true passion: clowning.

In the memoir “Firstborn,” Lauren Christensen writes about losing the daughter she was expecting.

In “Funny Because It’s True,” Christine Wenc offers an idiosyncratic history of The Onion, the publication that made the media its chief satirical target.

For almost four decades, Michael Connelly has set his characters loose in a city of big dreams and lucky breaks. Now they’re facing an altered landscape. So is he.

The New York Historical honor goes to Randall K. Wilson, whose “A Place Called Yellowstone” chronicles a landscape “capable of bridging ideological divides.”

Saou Ichikawa’s award-winning novel, “Hunchback,” is narrated by an heiress with a rare genetic disorder and a brilliant, cynical mind.

Our columnist on the month’s best releases.

In Stuart Nadler’s novel “Rooms for Vanishing,” four characters search for and grieve one another across separate timelines.

In “The Fisherman’s Gift,” a man finds a lost child on a Scottish beach after a storm, a discovery that unlocks a town’s suppressed drama.

When a woman shot her married lover in 1870s San Francisco, all of America took sides.