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“The Divorcées” whisks readers to a ranch in Reno, where unhappy wives once stayed to establish Nevada residency so they could file for divorce.

Shubnum Khan’s “The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years” braids a rich historical love story with a contemporary coming-of-age tale in South Africa.

In Laila Lalami’s new novel, a woman finds herself trapped in a nightmarish system of surveillance and detention.

In Evie Wyld’s new novel, “The Echoes,” a woman mourns her partner while also contending with the traumatic past she left behind.

In “The Editor,” Sara B. Franklin argues that Judith Jones was a “publishing legend,” transcending industry sexism to champion cookbooks — and Anne Frank.

In a new biography, Dava Sobel focuses not just on the legendary physicist and chemist, but on the 45 women who worked in her lab.

A college dropout becomes caretaker to a Lithuanian widow in Ocean Vuong’s florid new novel, which seeks to find the dignity in dead-end jobs.

In a new novel by Olga Tokarczuk, guests at a mountain retreat face a dark and cryptic threat.

“The End of Eden” is Adam Welz’s moving, chilling elegy for biodiversity as we know it.

Britain’s youngest code-breakers, brought to life in a new nonfiction book by Candace Fleming, were normal teenagers: playing pranks, attending dances.