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Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
A married couple makes a suicide pact in Lionel Shriver’s new novel, “Should We Stay or Should We Go.”
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A fan of crime novels, the former police commissioner loves Michael Connelly’s hero Harry Bosch — but adds, “I don’t have a favorite villain.”
The author of “The Fault in Our Stars” is back on the best seller list with his first book for adults. This time, he’s telling readers who he is.
Jeff Shesol’s “Mercury Rising” explores the careers of John Kennedy and John Glenn as a way to cut through the rhetoric of space exploration.
“Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch” sets a literal witch hunt in 17th-century Germany.
“Forget the Alamo,” by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford, and “A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles,” by Bill Minutaglio, have many strange stories to tell about the Lone Star State.
From a grisly ’90s true-crime story to slapstick comedy to family heartbreak, these narrators know how to keep your attention.
Paul Mendez’s debut novel, “Rainbow Milk,” traces the legacy of one family’s decision to leave the Caribbean.
An excerpt from “Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir,” by Akwaeke Emezi
An excerpt from “Animal,” by Lisa Taddeo
The British scholar Elinor Cleghorn’s new history traces medicine’s sexism from Hippocrates to today.
Three cross-cultural narratives in Rupert Thomson’s new novel paint a picture of Barcelona during the early 2000s.
In “Hola Papi,” the writer John Paul Brammer mines his own experiences and traumas to deliver wisdom for queer readers.
Carlo Rovelli’s “Helgoland” explores the world of the smallest particles and asks what makes them unique.
In “The Profession,” Bratton, with his co-author, Peter Knobler, offers an engaging account of his half-century in law enforcement.
In “Life on the Line,” Emma Goldberg takes readers behind the hospital curtains in New York City at the peak of the pandemic.
The story collection “Transmutation” follows protagonists across the gender spectrum filling their days with TV, Twitter and revenge.
A selection of recent visual books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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