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An editor recommends an Irish novel about a banker in trouble and a Swiss novel about schoolgirl obsession.

A poet’s letters; a collection of reminiscences.

Ditch the dye; live with style.

Ditch the dye; live with style.

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.