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Elizabeth Stromme’s noir about a writer for hire; Karen Tei Yamashita’s magic realist dystopia.

Carl Sandburg’s boyhood; Carolyn Forché’s political awakening.

Marianne Faithfull was a star in her own right; Peggy Caserta was a hippie tastemaker. Their memoirs are riveting.

An atheist in a convent; a bloodthirsty reality show hostess.

People cross boundaries in Alan Hollinghurst’s “The Spell” and Penelope Lively’s “The Photograph.”

Not all books tell readers what to call the main character. An editor recommends two that don’t.

A Chinatown hotel; an adventuress on the make.

Joan Aiken’s neo-Gothic; Joseph Roth’s family epic.

Rachel Ingalls’s lion god; Haruki Murakami’s cat whisperer.

A dinner party at the other woman’s house; the evening before a jail sentence.