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In a group portrait of America’s first female astronauts, Loren Grush details the basics of training and the challenges of sexism without lionizing her heroines.

The title character in Jon Klassen’s new chapter book, “The Skull,” is the personification of his unique brand of expressionless humor.

In Fiona Warnick’s cozy coming-of-age novel, an aimless college graduate finds an unconventional way to process her difficult transition into adulthood.

A memoir by the late Uri Shulevitz that reads like an adventure novel and a novel by Daniel Nayeri that feels utterly real.

A new book investigates the alarming practices of an eminent British psychiatrist who believed in treating mental illness with high-risk physical interventions.

Scarlett Thomas’s latest novel, “The Sleepwalkers,” recounts the tale of a couple’s disastrous getaway, told through letters, transcripts and more.

Prudence Peiffer’s “The Slip” is a group biography of six visual artists and the work they created on the edge of Manhattan in the 1950s and ’60s.

Rosie Schaap’s new memoir, “The Slow Road North,” recalls her grief and her subsequent move out of Brooklyn.

In “The South,” a Malaysian man recalls the life-changing period he spent on his family’s dilapidated farm when he was a teenager.

In “The Spinach King,” John Seabrook recounts how his grandfather turned a family farm into an industrial behemoth, and exposes the greed and malfeasance behind the prosperous facade.