BOWLAWAY, by Elizabeth McCracken. (Ecco, $16.99.) In McCracken’s sixth novel, a woman of mysterious origins, found unconscious in a cemetery at the turn of the 20th century, becomes a local legend, wedding the doctor who revived her and opening a bowling alley that becomes a town landmark. “McCracken’s ironic perspective, her humor and her deeply humane imagination never desert her,” Cathleen Schine wrote here.

THE COST OF LIVING: A Working Autobiography, by Deborah Levy. (Bloomsbury, $16.) Reeling from a midlife divorce and the concurrent financial downsizing, Levy builds a new life, renting a writing shed and investigating the possibilities of true independence for a woman writer. Our reviewer, Yiyun Lee, praised the book, calling Levy “an astute observer of both the mundane and the inexplicable.”

CODEX 1962, by Sjon. Translated by Victoria Cribb. (Picador, $20.) Three short novels by the Icelandic author Sjon are united here: “a love story,” “a crime story” and “a science fiction story.” With settings ranging from Nazi Germany to an Icelandic biotech startup, “this book is psychedelic, it’s potent and it wants to consume the whole world,” Garth Risk Hallberg wrote in these pages.

HEART: A History, by Sandeep Jauhar. (Picador, $18.) Weaving stories of his own and his relatives’ battles with cardiac ailments into this exploration of our most crucial organ, Jauhar, an author and the director of a heart failure program, charts the history of heroic medical breakthroughs that have deepened our understanding of how to heal and repair hearts. Our reviewer, Randi Hutter Epstein, called the book “gripping.”