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In her debut novel, “King of the Armadillos,” Wendy Chin-Tanner explores immigration, illness and opportunity through the story of a teenage immigrant who is diagnosed with Hansen’s disease.

Fabienne Josaphat’s novel “Kingdom of No Tomorrow” sets a love triangle amid late-1960s Oakland and Chicago.

Sonia Purnell’s biography of Pamela Harriman argues that the Democratic stalwart and former ambassador was more than the men she cultivated.

A new history by Fergus M. Bordewich examines Ulysses S. Grant’s battle against white supremacist terror.

“Knife” is an account of the writer’s brush with death in 2022, and the long recovery that followed.

A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5,000 years of the country’s past, showing how long before colonial powers defined its borders, it was a place with a common history.

In C Pam Zhang’s “Land of Milk and Honey,” a chef finds herself in an elite community for the superrich in the Italian Alps, one of the last places on Earth where crops still grow.

In “Language City,” the linguist Ross Perlin chronicles some of the precious traditions hanging on in the world’s most linguistically diverse metropolis.

Tracy Daugherty’s new biography is the first comprehensive account of the prolific novelist who brought us “Lonesome Dove,” “The Last Picture Show” and more.

“Last Acts,” by Alexander Sammartino, is a satire of contemporary America set at a firearms shop in Phoenix.