Book Reviews

“The Store,” at No. 4 after three weeks on the hardcover fiction list, features a married couple at war with a dominant online retailer.

In “Little Boxes,” writers share how they were influenced by TV shows, in the days before prestige TV.

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

A little seed who’s unapologetically bad, a horrible baby brother, the kid who won’t stop screaming and more.

Four new novels set around the globe explore the causes and consequences of family estrangement.

A father and son escape painful reminders of their lost loved ones in Scotland to discover a new outlook in the American South.

The stories of three Australians in three different centuries are linked by a miraculous vision in Ashley Hay’s “The Body in the Clouds.”

Revisiting Paul Scott’s “The Raj Quartet,” 70 years after the partition of India and Pakistan.

James Delbourgo’s “Collecting the World” recounts the life of Sir Hans Sloane, a pioneering natural scientist.

Elizabeth Day dissects the 21st-century British class system in this novel rife with literary allusions.

The teenagers in Claire Messud’s novel “The Burning Girl” have always been best friends. Now they’re growing painfully, possibly dangerously, apart.

In Rebecca Wait’s novel “The Followers,” a lonely woman and her child are lured into an isolated community on the Yorkshire moors.

In “Beautiful Bodies,” Kimberly Rae Miller recounts her lifelong addiction to deprivation through dieting.

Vanessa Grigoriadis’s fascinating but often frustrating “Blurred Lines” is a kaleidoscopic tour through the campus sexual assault controversy.

Discovering the author’s home in Maine, where he wrote “Charlotte’s Web” and heard those darn crickets.

A dispute that dragged on for years, and involved none of the author’s blood relatives, is settled.

In “Black Detroit,” Herb Boyd celebrates the city’s rich history through its unsung heroes.

In “Enraged,” Emily Katz Anhalt shows how the earliest works of Western literature questioned the values of the society that produced it.

The author of “Great House,” “The History of Love” and, most recently, “Forest Dark” prefers to read classic novels on the plane: “Twelve hours in economy is not the moment to gamble on a book.”

George Smiley returns in this coda to le Carré’s classic, “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.”