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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.”

Not all books tell readers what to call the main character. An editor recommends two that don’t.