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Reading picks from our staff critics and Book Review editors.

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A haunting horror novel set a century ago in the American West, Eleanor Catton’s first novel in a decade, a Ukrainian war diary and much more.

Novels from Ann Patchett and James McBride, a biography of the Chinese American movie star Anna May Wong and a handful of edgy thrillers — including one about a scuba driver swallowed by a whale.

Buzzy novels from Katie Kitamura and S.A. Cosby, Shirley Jackson’s letters, and two tales of mysterious death, one from the Victorian era, the other from India in the 1980s.

Memoirs from Sarah Polley and Bill Barr, new novels from NoViolet Bulawayo, Claire-Louise Bennett and Pankaj Mishra, and plenty more.

Novels from Ali Smith, Jean Hanff Korelitz and Mieko Kawakami; a debut Y.A. romance by Casey McQuiston; a sequel to Elif Batuman’s “The Idiot” and much more.

Novels from Jonathan Franzen, Amor Towles and Tiphanie Yanique; histories of Black cinema and music in America; and plenty more.