MY FATHER, THE PANDA KILLER, by Jamie Jo Hoang. (Crown Books for Young Readers, $18.99.) This Y.A. novel explores the lingering effects of war through two timelines: In 1999, a Vietnamese American teenager struggles to deal with her father’s abuse, and then in 1975, that father, as a boy, embarks on a traumatic migration from a war-stricken Vietnam.
HOUSE OF MARIONNE, by J. Elle. (Razorbill, $19.99.) A teenager with dark magic fears she’ll be killed if her powers are discovered, so she decides to hide undercover as a debutante in a boarding school’s secret society — but it poses more of a danger than she initially anticipated.
FOXGLOVE, by Adalyn Grace. (Little, Brown Young Readers, $19.99.) The second book in Grace’s gothic fantasy Belladonna series, this novel follows a young woman torn between Fate and Death as she fights to save the lord of Thorn Grove, who has been falsely accused of murder.
RYAN AND AVERY, by David Levithan. (Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99.) Levithan’s latest young adult novel follows two queer teenagers on their first 10 dates, as they fall in love and face a variety of personal and social challenges.
BEFORE THE MOVEMENT: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, by Dylan C. Penningroth. (Liveright, $35.) A historian puts forth an in-depth study of the creative and resourceful ways Black people worked around the American legal system’s racism before the civil rights movement.
WALK THE DARKNESS DOWN, by Daniel Magariel. (Bloomsbury, $27.99.) Two years ago, Les and Marlene lost their daughter. Now, Les drowns his pain at sea as a commercial fisherman while Marlene attempts to mother Josie, a young sex worker in their hometown. This melancholy novel delicately charts their paths back to each other, and maybe forward.
UNRELIABLE NARRATOR: Me, Myself and Impostor Syndrome, by Aparna Nancherla. (Viking, $28.) The stand-up comedian’s sharp memoir recounts her experiences navigating impostor syndrome, creating art during the pandemic and grappling with her depression — named Brenda — in its many forms.
THE COURT AT WAR: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made, by Cliff Sloan. (PublicAffairs, $32.50.) This legal history takes stock of the Supreme Court during World War II, by which time Roosevelt had appointed seven of its nine justices. Sloan shows how a court hardly apolitical and largely loyal to F.D.R. was nevertheless divided on the issues of the day.
