Sally Rooney’s fourth novel is about two Irish brothers, 32-year-old Peter Koubek, a Dublin lawyer, and 22-year-old Ivan, a chess prodigy, and their troubled relationships with each other and the women in their lives.

In her first novel to be published in English, South Korean writer Han Kang divides a story about strange obsessions and metamorphosis into three parts, each with a distinct voice.

This isn’t the first novel to reimagine Mark Twain’s 1885 masterpiece, but the audacious and prolific Percival Everett dives into the very heart of Twain’s epochal odyssey, shifting the central viewpoint from that of the unschooled, often credulous, but basically good-hearted Huck to the more enigmatic and heroic Jim, the Black slave with whom the boy escapes via raft on the Mississippi River.

Already longlisted for the Booker Prize, Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake” stars a ruthless American secret agent.

In his first collection, Amor Towles writes a sequel to his debut novel, “Rules of Civility” (2011), in the form of a 200-page novella and adds six short stories involving unlikely encounters and unexpected outcomes.

In K. A. Linde’s paranormal thriller, a woman goes on a dangerous quest to retrieve a rare object.

This masterful psychological horror novel from bestselling YA author Nicola Yoon (“Everything, Everything”) brings to bear all the claustrophobia of “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Stepford Wives” against the backdrop of systemic racism and police brutality.

​“The Alternatives” by award-winning Irish author Caoilinn Hughes reflects our collective yearning to make sense of our lives.