We recommend a bounty of good fiction this week, with a collection by Torrey Peters, a mystery by Deanna Raybourn and new novels from Chaim Grade, Karen Russell and others. In nonfiction, we like a journalist’s look back at a little-remembered episode of police brutality from the 1980s and a damning, juicy tell-all by a former Facebook insider. Happy reading. — Gregory Cowles

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Goddess Complex

by Sanjena Sathian

Sathian’s inventive second novel — at once a satire, a Gothic tale, a novel of ideas and a character study — follows a 32-year-old woman who is profoundly unsure what she wants from life after aborting a pregnancy and leaving her husband, even as her friends and peers are settling into comfortable adulthood and family life. Read our review.