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In “Born Equal,” Akhil Reed Amar paints a sprawling portrait of 19th-century America in thrall to its founding moment.

“Born in Flames,” by the historian Bench Ansfield, recounts how the wave of urban arson in the 1970s devastated poor communities while enriching building owners.

Mike Mignola’s “Bowling With Corpses” is full of suspicious shadows and offbeat jokes.

In “Boy From the North Country,” a writer returns home to be with his dying mother and learns some shocking secrets.

In her new book, “Brainwyrms,” Alison Rumfitt reimagines contemporary anti-trans bigotry as a ravenous helminth that causes its hosts to go violently mad.

Gabriel Smith’s shape-shifting debut, “Brat,” cycles through a multiverse of strange possibilities.

Gabriel Smith’s shape-shifting debut, “Brat,” cycles through a multiverse of strange possibilities.

In Lauren Beukes’s surreal new book, “Bridge,” a young woman embarks on a metaphysical quest to find her family before a fearsome hunter does.

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts.

Inspired by the true story of the first woman condemned as a witch in medieval Ireland, “Bright I Burn,” by Molly Aitken, features a protagonist as dangerous as she is beguiling.