UNSHELTERED, by Barbara Kingsolver. (Harper Perennial, $17.99.) Two narratives, one set in the 21st century and one in the 19th, entwine in this novel about two familes that occupy the same house centuries apart. Each seeks elusive shelter as it reels from its own set of disruptions. Kingsolver has given us another densely packed and intricately imagined book, Meg Wolitzer wrote in these pages.

PALACES FOR THE PEOPLE: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life, by Eric Klinenberg. (Broadway Books, $18.) Klinenberg, an N.Y.U. sociologist, argues that designing public building projects like streets and schools to maximize human connections solves a host of social ills. Anyone interested in cities will find this book an engaging survey, our reviewer, Pete Buttigieg, wrote.

COME WITH ME, by Helen Schulman. (Harper Perennial, $16.99.) Set in Silicon Valley and Fukushima, Japan, Schulmans sixth novel centers on a long-married couple, the parents of three children, who plunge into real-world and cyber experiences that shake the foundations of their staid, affluent life. Our reviewer, Stephen McCauley, called the book strikingly original, compelling and beautifully written.

NINE PINTS: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood, by Rose George. (Picador, $18.) This exploration of that crucial bodily fluid encompasses the ancient practice of bloodletting, the lucrative market in plasma transfusions and the authors harrowing personal experiences. The Timess Dwight Garner applauded Georges no-nonsense briskness and potent moral sensibility.

I AM DYNAMITE! A Life of Nietzsche, by Sue Prideaux. (Tim Duggan Books, $18.). This intimate biography of the sickly 19th-century philosopher who became an unwitting intellectual pillar of the Third Reich moves between his life, his published work and his personal writings. The Timess Parul Sehgal praised Prideauxs attentive, scrupulous portrait.

MEMOIRS OF AN EX-PROM QUEEN, by Alix Kates Shulman. (Picador, $17.) Published in 1972 and immediately embraced as a feminist classic, this reissued novel follows its heroine from teenage triumphs and humiliations in an Ohio suburb through snuffed-out ambitions and a disastrous marriage to a hard-fought kind of freedom, sexual and otherwise. Sasha Davis might well be a female cousin of Alexander Portnoy, Marylin Bender wrote in these pages.

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