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As soon as Upon a Time There Was Reality, by Jack Zipes (Yale). Zipes, an achieved scholar of fairy tales, explores the style’s enduring attraction and its social features on …

Adrift within the South, by Xiao Hai, translated from the Chinese language by Tony Hao (Granta). At fifteen, the author Xiao Hai left his house city to seek out work …

The Rolling Stones, by Bob Spitz (Penguin). It began in 1961: “Two boys meet at a prepare station one morning, in a suburb east of London.” The teenager-agers, Mick Jagger …

Paradiso 17, by Hannah Lillith Assadi (Knopf). This novel of exile and reminiscence chronicles the lifetime of Sufien, a Palestinian man displaced as a toddler by the Nakba, whose story …

Underlake, by Erin L. McCoy (Doubleday). This surreal début novel riffs on the concept of drowned cities: cities seized by the federal government and submerged, by way of dam building, …

Of Loss and Lavender, by Sinan Antoon, translated from the Arabic by the creator (Different Press). The central characters of this contemplative novel are two Iraqi males—unknown to one another—who …

Go Mild, by Maria Semple (Putnam). This comedian novel is narrated by Adora, a divorced, middle-aged thinker who lives in Manhattan as a part of what she calls a “coven”: …

See You on the Different Facet, by Jay McInerney (Knopf). This elegiac novel, the fourth in a sequence concerning the marriage of Russell and Corrine Calloway, takes place through the …

Half His Age, by Jennette McCurdy (Ballantine). This consuming novel, written by a former little one star who can be the creator of a best-selling memoir, tackles an unsettling topic: intimacy …

A Lovely Mortgage, by Mary Costello (Norton). “I’ve been attempting to account for sure occasions in my life,” Anna, this novel’s forty-five-year-old narrator, tells us by the use of introduction. …