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Jane Austen’s classic, about the tortured romance of two people frazzled by miscommunications and assumptions, still feels fresh 250 years after Austen’s birth.

In October, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Stephen Graham Jones’s latest horror novel, about an Indigenous man who is turned into a vampire.

In the small-scale world of Laura Amy Schlitz’s novel “The Winter of the Dollhouse,” the emotional stakes are both intimate and enormous.

She published her first book of poems at 49 and her first work of prose, the acclaimed novel “Rattlebone,” six years later.

Then: His favorite writer. Now: “So earnest, so didactic, so humorless.” His own new novel is “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother).”

Our critic finds some of the author’s sense and sensibility in this month’s best selections.

In her book, coming out next week, she revisited her breakneck campaign, explaining her choices and outlining missteps — of hers and others. She hinted at a return to politics.

Raised Buddhist in Texas, Amie Barrodale came to embrace the teachings. Years of practice inform her odd, and oddly funny, debut novel, “Trip.”

Dan Chaon’s latest novel, “One of Us,” dances around a great showman, a demented “uncle” and a cast of fascinating misfits.

In “We Love You, Bunny,” the novelist Mona Awad revisits the gleefully vicious campus satire of her 2019 hit, “Bunny.” We’re all ears.