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Kiran Desai’s “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” is the favorite, but books by Andrew Miller, Katie Kitamura and Susan Choi are also in the running for the prestigious award.

Katherine Rundell, Christopher Paolini and other writers mark the 75th anniversary of the book’s U.S. publication: “It taught me to long for big pleasures.”

Meeting traveling nurses during the pandemic led to “Sacrament,” her 10th novel. “Our memories will be indelible,” she says, “like my father’s stories of the Dust Bowl.”

Restrictions on publishers and sellers have grown more severe. Volumes are being pulled from shelves or redacted like secret documents, but bookstores remain important sources of community.

With “Entertaining,” a seminal cookbook that’s being newly reissued, the original lifestyle influencer changed the culture and built her empire.

The Public Theater will present the play, which Martyna Majok adapted from the best-selling memoir.

In Guillermo del Toro’s new version, the answer lies in how deeply it explores the relationship between creator and created.

Mark Z. Danielewski has returned with “Tom’s Crossing,” a 1,200-page western that is both more accessible than his earlier work and “the book of my life.”

In Gráinne O’Hare’s witty debut, “Thirst Trap,” 30th birthdays — and an unexpected death — signal new horizons (if not sobriety) for three longtime friends in Belfast.

The best-selling fantasy writer Holly Black recommends novels that blend the thrills of a well-executed crime with intrigue and sorcery.