The Memory Museum by M Lin is a collection of short stories that “tackles what it means to be a part of — or apart from — China.”

In Togetherness, evolutionary biologist Rowan Hooper explores community and collaboration in nature, bringing a special “vividness to his accounts.”

A memoir from eighth-generation Appalachian, Emilee Hackney, All That’s Unseen is “a lucid portrait… of a region too often caricatured but little understood.”

Papangu’s Celestial, recorded entirely on magnetic tape, is a “brighter and more colorful” follow-up to the Brazilian band’s earlier albums.

The Athletic’s Matthew Futterman delivers “superb reporting on the mental and physical cauldron of professional tennis” in The Cruelest Game.