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Fashionistas and celebrities gathered for a new book filled with candid shots of the understated Gen X star.

A wildly prolific son of Texas, McMurtry was a tangle of contradictions. Here’s where to start.

This captivating adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s novel, a collaboration with Handspring Puppet Company, follows a man and his ailing mother during a civil war in South Africa.

“Prophet Song,” a novel by Paul Lynch, is set in Dublin during a political crisis.

Samantha Harvey’s fifth novel, “Orbital,” follows a day in the life of six international astronauts circling Earth on a space station.

In Gabrielle Korn’s debut novel, “Yours for the Taking,” a feminist cultural icon runs a lifesaving artificial habitat, but a secret, and controversial, agenda guides her project.

It’s been a roller coaster of a year. Thankfully, we’ve had novels to whisk us to days gone by, even if those eras had their own highs and lows.

In “Flores and Miss Paula,” Melissa Rivero takes readers inside a Brooklyn apartment where family ties are uncomfortably snug.

In “Most Delicious Poison,” Noah Whiteman explores nature’s fine line between killing and curing.

Our columnist picks the year’s best.