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With his haunting images of steam locomotives, steel mills and Midwestern farms, the celebrated lensman revealed the poetry in the artifacts of manual labor.

She wrote some 450 books, including novels, poetry and nonfiction in many genres. One critic called her “a modern equivalent to Aesop.”

In “The Nord Stream Conspiracy,” the investigative journalist Bojan Pancevski tells a high-stakes international war story in blockbuster prose.

Leaning on a rich written record, the graphic novelist Tillie Walden used nearby resources to visualize the true story of seamstresses who shared a home for decades.

Her debut novel taps into a microgeneration’s blurring of performance and reality.

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor’s new book, “Something We Said,” is at once a memoir and a history of a racial slur.

In “They All Fall in Love at the End,” a young Black woman navigates taboo attractions and a contentious political environment while working toward a creative writing degree.

In “The American School of Spies,” Stephan Talty tells the story of the desperate struggle to preserve antiquities during World War II.

In “Drayton and Mackenzie,” two young grads navigating the 2008 financial crisis enact a plan they hope will change their fate.

Lush historical fiction, gripping thrillers, true crime, laugh-out-loud essays and more: Here are the books you’ve saved most to your reading lists.