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Tayari Jones, Ann Patchett, George Saunders and Veronica Roth return with new novels; Jennette McCurdy makes her fiction debut; and more.

Javier Moro’s new novel focuses on a 19th-century architect who left an indelible imprint on the city.

He was a founder of More, which skewered the foibles of the press in the 1970s, and later wrote a critical biography of the psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim.

“The Freedom Manifesto,” by María Corina Machado, will lay out the Nobel laureate’s vision for a “new era,” its publisher said.

“People We Meet on Vacation,” “Wuthering Heights” and “Project Hail Mary” are some of this year’s most anticipated adaptations.

In his enthralling “The Spy in the Archive,” Gordon Corera tells the story of an unlikely hero embedded within the heart of the agency.

In the Goncourt winner “Watching Over Her,” Jean-Baptiste Andrea traces the personal and political entanglements of a sculptor whose swagger belies his physical stature.

In “Advance Britannia,” Alan Allport shows the fighting from the perspective of England and its colonies.

“This Is Where the Serpent Lives,” by Daniyal Mueenuddin, recalls the power of Russian classics.

Lola Lafon’s book “When You Listen to This Song” is a hit in its native France. Now in English, it explores identity, loss and memory in wholly new ways.