SABRINA & CORINA: Stories, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. (One World, 240 pp., $17.) The distinctive Latinx voice and vision of this debut collection, a finalist for the National Book Award, emanates from both the authors Philippine roots and the Indigenous cultures of the American West, where she was born. In its fierce and essential stories, our reviewer, May-Lan Tan, observed, history always resurfaces, and the landscape mirrors the cycles at play in the characters lives.

THE PORPOISE, by Mark Haddon. (Vintage, 320 pp., $16.95.) In this provocative novel, Haddon revisits the part of Shakespeares Pericles likely not penned by Shakespeare to grant a princess and her abusers poetic justice. In the words of our reviewer, Sarah Lyall, Haddons writing is beautiful, almost hallucinatory at times.

SAVE ME THE PLUMS: My Gourmet Memoir, by Ruth Reichl. (Random House, 304 pp., $18.) Juicier than a porterhouse steak is how our reviewer, Kate Betts, described the former New York Times restaurant critics poignant and hilarious look back at the 10 years when she was editor in chief of Gourmet magazine.

THE IMPEACHERS: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation, by Brenda Wineapple. (Random House, 592 pp., $20.) Our critic Jennifer Szalai called this analysis of the first impeachment of an American president incisive and illuminating. Wineapple concludes that the process worked, by demonstrating that Johnson was not a king, that actions have consequences and that our government, with its checks and balances, could maintain itself without waging war.

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