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Journeys of self-discovery await the adventurers of these fantasy tales.    

Four picture books showcase villains and tough situations.    

Paulo Coelho assembled his novel “Manuscript Found in Accra,” No. 2 on this week’s hardcover list, after soliciting ideas from his 6.3 million Twitter followers.    

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.    

Paperback books of particular interest.    

Dan Savage began writing his syndicated column, “Savage Love,” more than 20 years ago.    

For writers who inhabit many different worlds, there may be no such thing as a definitive “style.”    

The gay journalist Jeff Chu traveled across the country to meet with preachers, pastors and ministers who fall all over the map when it comes to the issue of homosexuality.    

The novelist, critic, poet and author, most recently, of a new translation of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” relishes his defense of Philip Larkin: “Spraying cold water on a witch hunt is one of the duties that a critic should be ready to perform.”    

In his new book, Mr. Wiman reflects on his life-threatening illness and his Christian faith.    

A reader responds to a recent review of Taiye Selasi’s “Ghana Must Go.”    

A reader responds to a recent review of Jonathan Sperber’s “Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life.”    

A reader responds to a recent review of A. B. Yehoshua’s novel “The Retrospective.”    

Three outstanding books collect profiles written by journalists before the celebrity-industrial complex was fully formed.    

In “The Golden Egg,” Donna Leon’s latest Venetian mystery, Commissario Guido Brunetti looks into the suspicious death of the deaf and mentally disabled man who worked for his neighborhood dry cleaner.    

Mike Piazza recalls his career: his achievements, his feuds.    

This book presents the life of Muhammad for Western readers.    

Tamas Dobozy’s stories unfold between war-torn Hungary and the émigré circles of present-day North America.    

In “The Girls of Atomic City” — at No. 14 on the hardcover nonfiction list — Denise Kiernan explains the prominent role young women played in the Manhattan Project.    

Paperback books of particular interest.