The Late Americans: A Novel
By Brandon Taylor

Twentysomethings try to make sense of the world and their place in it.
The World: A Family History of Humanity
By Simon Sebag Montefiore

A staggering work of scholarship that also delights in the naughty bits.
Fixer-Upper
By Jenny Schuetz

Will affordable shelter for all ever be a reality?
Manhattan Phoenix
By Daniel S. Levy

This problematic history portrays Gotham as hell in more ways than one.
American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life
By Jennifer Lunden

Seeking (but seldom finding) succor in U.S. healthcare.