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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.

Florida in the early 1960s; California in the mid-1980s.

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

Barry Gifford’s bohemian scrapbook; Elizabeth McCracken’s eulogy for a mother.

A love affair between jurors; reclaiming a classic.

A haunted author; haunted dolls.

Murder mysteries by the men who brought you Winnie-the-Pooh and Daniel Day-Lewis.