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Mona Awad’s new novel, “Rouge,” indicts the quest to be fairest of them all.

In Kevin Wilson’s novel “Run for the Hills,” half siblings drive cross-country searching for the father who abandoned them.

The 1991 novel turns a private disturbance into bracing social commentary.

“Ruth,” by Kate Riley, is an absorbing novel about a woman torn between curiosity and purity.

For her new book, “Salvage,” the Trinidadian-born writer Dionne Brand rereads classic English novels, teasing out evidence of the ravages of colonialism.

“Same as It Ever Was,” by Claire Lombardo, is a 500-page, multigenerational examination of the ties that bind.

“Same Bed Different Dreams” is the rare sophomore novel that has the wild, freewheeling ambition of a debut.

In her new novel, “Sandwich,” Catherine Newman explores the aches and joys of midlife via one family’s summer week at the beach.

In “Saving Five,” Amanda Nguyen tells a winding story of pain, justice and stratospheric accomplishment.

A book by the historian Justene Hill Edwards charts the rise and fall of the Freedman’s Bank, founded at the end of the Civil War for the formerly enslaved.