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In a memoir and a novel, the characters deal with grief by singing in front of strangers.

A gentle and clever comic novel; a poetic and tender essay on addiction.

An underground party memoir; an argument for nonhuman life.

The Nobel laureate’s “Small Memories” is a mix of peasant life, boyhood adventure and wide-eyed wonder.

A late-life fantasia; a surviving twin’s breakthrough.

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.”