‘The Room Where It Happened,’ by John Bolton (Simon & Schuster, May 12)

Drafts of this book, by a former national security adviser to President Trump, contain an explosive anecdote: that the president said he wanted to continue freezing millions of dollars in aid to Ukraine until officials there agreed to investigate the Bidens and other Democrats — actions at the heart of his impeachment trial. Bolton’s account directly contradicts the president’s lawyers, as he faces removal from office. The memoir follows a string of political tell-alls, including “A Warning,” by the anonymous White House official who wrote an Opinion essay in 2018.

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Untitled , by Chelsea Manning (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, July 21)

The former Army intelligence analyst, who was jailed for sharing classified information with WikiLeaks, tells her life story. She has called the memoir a coming-of-age story, outlining what led her to leak the files, her experiences in jail and what made her lose faith in the government.

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Rodham , by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House, May 19)

You already know the protagonist of Sittenfeld’s new novel — Hillary Rodham. The book imagines what her life might have been like if she refused to marry Bill Clinton. (She did turn him down twice in real life, before eventually agreeing.) Sittenfeld, the author of “Prep,” “Eligible” and other novels, is no stranger to imagining the inner lives of people in the public eye; the protagonist of her novel “American Wife” is an avatar of another former first lady, Laura Bush.

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Afterlife ,’ by Julia Alvarez (Workman, April 7)

It’s been nearly 15 years since Alvarez’s last novel for adults, and she returns with the story of Antonia, a retired professor whose life is upended by the death of her husband and the appearance of a pregnant undocumented teenager at her door. Alvarez, the author of “In the Time of Butterflies,” “How the García Girls Lost Their Accents” and more, explores the changing notions of family and what we owe each other.