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Theo Baker was still an undergraduate at Stanford when he broke the story that would eventually end a university president’s tenure. How to Rule the World is his account of that investigation, and it reads less like a triumphant campus memoir than a sober dispatch on how institutions protect their

One swing. That is all it takes to turn a Massachusetts golf course into the scene of an accident that will not stop echoing. Chris Bohjalian, the prolific author of psychological page-turners like The Flight Attendant and The Lioness, opens The Amateur with a premise so simple it feels almost

Some marriages end with warning signs nobody wanted to read. Belle Burden’s Strangers is about the other kind, the marriage that looked, from the outside and the inside, like it was working, until it wasn’t. The memoir debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list, an unusual

There is a very specific kind of reader who hears the premise of Dungeon Crawler Carl and immediately knows whether they’re in or out, and Matt Dinniman has built an empire on the ones who are in. Originally self-published, the series has become one of the great word-of-mouth publishing stories

Some books ask you to keep up. Theo of Golden asks you to slow down, and right now a remarkable number of readers are doing exactly that. Three years after Allen Levi quietly self-published it, the novel has climbed to the top of the New York Times Combined Print &

Ten years of war between humans and vampires have left the world without daylight, and Carissa Broadbent’s “The Lion & the Deathless Dark” wastes no time reminding readers that darkness, in this series, has never just been weather. The novel opens the Bloodborn Duet, a new arc within Broadbent’s Crowns

A chance encounter at a museum, a face out of the past, and forty-five years of unspoken history — Ann Patchett’s “Whistler” opens with the kind of coincidence that only really works in fiction, and then spends the rest of its pages earning it. The setup: Daphne Fuller is at

There is a particular kind of horror in getting exactly what you asked for, and “Yesteryear” builds an entire novel out of that premise before it ever raises its voice. Caro Claire Burke’s latest opens on Natalie Heller Mills, a tradwife influencer with a curated feed of sourdough starters, hand-churned

Some houses are cheap because the roof needs work. The one Rachel and Theo Collins buy in a remote corner of New Hampshire is cheap because, three decades earlier, an entire family walked into a storm and never walked back out, leaving behind only a stray dog and a spray

Emily Giffin has built a career on the premise that the past never really stays past, and “Love You More” puts that theory to its toughest test yet: what happens when your old life calls you back just as your new one is finally clicking into place. Billie is a