Do You Know Where These Jazz Age Novels Are Set?

Even though it’s been more than a century since some of these novels roared onto the literary scene, they all remain classics of the era. Try this short quiz to see how many you remember.

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A Novel Explores the Undersea Cables That Connect the World

The crew in Colum McCann’s new book makes complex repairs deep in the ocean. Human bonds prove harder to mend.

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‘There but Not There’: A Husband’s Dementia Leaves His Wife Reeling

In the novel “Counting Backwards,” by Binnie Kirshenbaum, an artist grieves the loss of her husband to Lewy body disease.

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A Servant Girl in 1776 Boston Fights Her Own Battle for Independence

Laurie Halse Anderson returns to the Revolutionary War era with a timely new novel for young readers.

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So a Lesbian Clown and a 40-Something Magician Go On a Date

Kristen Arnett’s new novel, “Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One,” follows a woman grappling with grief and love while pursuing her true passion: clowning.

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There’s a New ‘Hunger Games’ Novel. Here’s What You Need to Know.

“Sunrise on the Reaping” further expands the world of Panem, focusing on Haymitch Abernathy’s story.

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He Dreamed Up Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer. It All Started With L.A.

For almost four decades, Michael Connelly has set his characters loose in a city of big dreams and lucky breaks. Now they’re facing an altered landscape. So is he.

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Sick or Neurotic? This Writer Will Be the Judge.

What started as a scholarly study becomes, in Will Rees’s hands, a freewheeling journey into our brains and souls.

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I’ll Have the Psychedelic Dystopia With Everything on It

Fernando A. Flores’s new novel imagines a bleak world where books are illegal and deprivation is the norm. It’s a blast.

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A Facebook Insider’s Exposé Alleges Bad Behavior at the Top

“Careless People,” a memoir by a former Facebook executive, portrays feckless company leaders cozying up to authoritarian regimes.

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A Melancholy Yiddish Classic That Also Happens to Be Hilarious

“Sons and Daughters,” Chaim Grade’s serialized novel about Jewish life in 1930s Europe, has been published in English for the first time.

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A Nanny on the Run With Someone Else’s Daughter

“The Tokyo Suite” explores class divisions in contemporary Brazil via the twinned stories of a high-powered TV executive and the desperate caretaker of her child.

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For These Women, It’s Kill or Be Killed

Our critic on Deanna Raybourn’s “Kills Well With Others” and three more new books.

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2 Books From Other Shores

A memoir of Italy; notes on Canada.

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Take a Deep Breath. If You Dare.

In “Air-Borne,” his detailed and gripping account of aerobiology, Carl Zimmer uncovers the mysteries filling our lungs.

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Think Gender Is Messy? Wait Until You Read These Stories.

In “Stag Dance,” Torrey Peters probes the complicated, evolving realities of queerness and trans life.

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After an Abortion and a Separation, a 30-Something Flails Toward Adulthood

The novel “Goddess Complex,” by Sanjena Sathian, takes a sharp turn from an existential crisis into a more literal one.

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How Do You Like Your History? With Imaginative Leaps or Grounded in Fact?

Novelized accounts of historical figures’ lives are hugely popular. But do we really want to draw back the curtain on history and find people talking and acting the way we do?

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A New Novel After the Nobel? No Pressure, Says Abdulrazak Gurnah.

But a full calendar meant carving out time for “Theft,” his new book and first since winning the prize.

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The Archives Tried to Erase Her Family. She Tells Their Story.

A new memoir by the historian Martha S. Jones combines a trenchant analysis of race and the historical record with a homage to other Black women scholars.

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What if Your Dreams Could Land You in Prison?

In Laila Lalami’s new novel, a woman finds herself trapped in a nightmarish system of surveillance and detention.

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When ‘We’ Becomes ‘I’: The Case for Divorce

Two new memoirs show the commonalities — and differences — in the end of every marriage.

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A Turbulent Road Trip to Manhood, Loaded Gun in Tow

Two teenage boys set out north with few plans and plenty of frustrations in Vijay Khurana’s novel, “The Passenger Seat.”

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How Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wrote Her Way Through Loss

When her father died, the author of “Americanah” produced a slim work of nonfiction. When her mother died, she poured her grief into a sprawling 416-page novel.

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The Tiny Brown Hare Who Taught One Woman to Slow Down

In her memoir, “Raising Hare,” Chloe Dalton describes how a leveret changed her outlook on life during the pandemic and beyond.

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