Louisa Ermelino

In the Booker Prize–winning 'Prophet Song' (Grove, Dec.), Lynch imagines an Ireland falling into chaos under an authoritarian regime.

At the center of Tan’s latest is a real-life murder in early-20th-century British Malaya and its attendant scandal.

In ‘How I Won a Nobel Prize,’ a student on the cusp of a scientific breakthrough follows her disgraced mentor to an island where bad behavior is the norm.

‘Loot’ follows the destiny of a famous mechanical toy through the fortunes of its creator and world events.

With insight and wry humor, the ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ author’s provocative new collection, ‘Old Babes in the Woods,’ looks at life from both sides now.

In Zoje Stage’s ‘Mothered,’ a mother and daughter are trapped in a house, where isolation and a troubled past lead to madness and violence.

In her assured debut, Tracey Rose Peyton follows six enslaved women who are trying to avoid being forcibly impregnated.

In Deena Mohamed’s debut graphic novel, wishes are for sale in a fantastical Cairo.

In Bushra Rehman’s coming-of-age novel, a young woman must leave her Pakistani community in Corona, Queens, in order to find herself.

Bora Chung soars into the unchartered territory of the imagination with her stunning, provocative collection of stories.