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Emily Cockayne’s “Penning Poison,” a history of anonymous letters, reveals the ways we’ve been torturing one another, verbally, for centuries.

Isle McElroy’s second novel, “People Collide,” puts a pair of bored newlyweds in each other’s shoes.

Vincenzo Latronico’s novel “Perfection” explores the capital of Europe’s expat scene in its heyday.

Laurent Binet’s novel “Perspective(s)” begins with an artist lying dead in a Florentine chapel.

In Catherine Chidgey’s seventh novel, “Pet,” a motherless 12-year-old girl falls under the intoxicating spell of a mysterious teacher at her Catholic school in New Zealand.

“Piglet,” by Lottie Hazell, is a tantalizing layer cake of horror, romance (sort of) and timely questions about the power of appetite.

In Fernanda Trías’s novel “Pink Slime,” one woman holds out in her town after an environmental disaster, trapped in a limbo of indecision.

Jason Schreier’s “Play Nice” tells the story of Blizzard Entertainment from its fratty, debauched ’90s heyday to the height of its corporate glut.

“Playboy,” an autobiographical novel by the writer Constance Debré, follows a woman who left her husband and job in search of pleasure.

The wonders of the ocean and the terrors of A.I. meet in Richard Powers’s new novel, which considers the future of an environmentally challenged Polynesian island.