BAD BLOOD: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, by John Carreyrou. (Vintage, 341 pp., $16.95.) Carreyrou, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, recounts how Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and C.E.O. of Theranos, hoodwinked investors, employees and the public into believing in the $9 billion companys faulty technology for testing blood. The book tells the story virtually to perfection, Roger Lowenstein wrote here.

LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE, by Valeria Luiselli. (Vintage, 361 pp., $16.95.) In this fourth novel by the Mexican-born Luiselli, an unhappily married couple travel to Arizona for work, bringing their two children along. There, they search for a friends young daughters, who are undocumented and have gone missing. Our reviewer, Gaiutra Bahadur, called the book a virtuosic, erudite performance.

ARISTOTLES WAY: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life, by Edith Hall. (Penguin, 254 pp., $17.) Hall, a professor of classics at Kings College London, makes the case that practicing the virtue and moderation central to the philosophy of Aristotle is the key to lasting happiness in the modern world. It sounds platitudinous enough, but it isnt, thanks to Halls tight yet modest prose, our reviewer, John Kaag, wrote.

WAYWARD LIVES, BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals, by Saidiya Hartman. (Norton, 441 pp., $17.95.) Hartman, a MacArthur fellow, explores the lives of young black women at the beginning of the 20th century who found new ways to live independently. The Timess Parul Sehgal called the book exhilarating social history.

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