As is my wont, my January book column is a look back at my favorites among books I read in 2019. My tastes tend to run to history or — for fiction — thrillers, and…

The days are dark, but books bring brightness. Here are promising new paperbacks to read as autumn settles in. “Girl, Woman, Other” by Bernardine Evaristo. This novel shared the 2019 Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood’s…

Retired master sniper Bob Lee Swagger is rocking on the porch of his Idaho ranch home, not suspecting he is about to be drawn back into the game, in “Game of Snipers” by Stephen Hunter.…