Kevin Canfield

Nonfiction: Things get complicated for churches that confront racism.

LOCAL FICTION: A moving novel weaves together storylines about art and love in India and Minnesota.

NONFICTION: The "All That She Carried" writer's new book is about the inspiration that fueled a heroic life.

NONFICTION: A Minnesotan continues a sweeping, multi-part portrait of her remarkable family.

FICTION: A short, powerful novel about Irishwomen who meet heartache with resolve and dark humor.

NONFICTION: A Minnesota writer's gracious second book focuses on family members who stared down hardship.

FICTION: A brainy, multifarious campus novel that's one of the year's most impressive books in any genre.

NONFICTION: A breezy, entertaining look at the similarities between two artistic greats, a 19th-century Brit and a 20th-century Minnesotan.

FICTION: From the author of prizewinning novels and nonfiction, an unsettling portrait of a noxious friendship in postwar France.

FICTION: An ambitious novel charts the relationship between an ordinary man's travails and decades of geopolitical upheaval.

FICTION: A distinguished British writer's graceful novel about a rewarding bond kindled in the classroom.

NONFICTION: A Minnesota writer's gracious second book focuses on family members who stared down hardship.

FICTION: An observant novel about two women dragged into the maelstrom surrounding America's antiterror campaign.

FICTION: Written over a 30-year-period, this engrossing novel focuses on an apparent crime and its ruinous effect on two families.

NONFICTION: An engrossing, multifaceted portrait of a skilled British doctor who embraced supernatural ideas.

NONFICTION: A survivor bravely confronts the trauma caused by Northern Ireland's protracted, deadly conflict.

FICTION: In a dazzling sci-fi novel, likable characters land in strange situations, challenging their assumptions about human life and the passage of time.

A gifted Dublin writer takes on the pandemic, in moving, funny stories.

Set in England and China, a smart, expansive novel considers the toll of extremist beliefs.

A probing character study with insightful perspectives on addiction and single parenthood.

Page-turners that will make you laugh, cry, reflect and escape when the weather outside is frightening.

A potent novel about art, sex and grief during a pandemic.

A perceptive biography considers a late German writer's distinctive talents.

FICTION: In a sharp, posthumously published spy novel, an aggrieved agent plots against former allies.

FICTION: A powerful tale of two relatives fighting painful battles in India, seven decades apart.

NONFICTION: Enlightening look at relentless political turbulence of the past.

NONFICTION: This true story recounts needless deaths in a culture where women are systematically subjugated.

FICTION: Wry stories from an Irish writer who deftly melds beauty and sorrow.