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The author Ashley Herring Blake recommends swoony Sapphic novels that celebrate love between women across eras and genres.

Monica Datta’s “Nebraska” is a maximalist, continent-spanning story of a mother killing her youngest child, as relayed by a highly idiosyncratic psychoanalyst.

Janet Fash’s memoir is both a sunny coming-of-age story and an exposé of corruption, understaffing and unnecessary deaths at Rockaway Beach.

In “The Housewives Underground,” the Atlantic writer Kaitlyn Tiffany salutes a loose network of skeptics who questioned the findings of the Warren Report.

“The Emergency Playbook” is a disaster preparation guide that emphasizes community rather than lone-hero fantasies.

In “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI,” the renowned tech critic Cory Doctorow tries to find a good way to coexist with artificial intelligence.

In “Presence,” the historian Erin Maglaque pieces together the fragments of early modern womanhood.

In “Regime Change,” two New York Times journalists offer a riveting chronicle of the weird fusion of reality and show business in the White House.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.