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In “A Century of Tomorrows,” Glenn Adamson offers a hurtling history of the art, science and big business of looking ahead.

Lucy Foley, the author of “The Guest List,” recommends books about the most intimate of dramas, including twisty mysteries and all-time favorites like “Rebecca” and “Gone Girl.”

Fabienne Josaphat’s novel “Kingdom of No Tomorrow” sets a love triangle amid late-1960s Oakland and Chicago.

Lydia Reeder’s “The Cure for Women” tells the story of the remarkable Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi.

Frances Hardinge’s “Island of Whispers” is lush and poetic, and holy moly is it eerie.

An exhibition of what-ifs, designed to be seen, not read, will be on display through February.

A posthumous collection of essays by the anthropologist and activist David Graeber shows a bold thinker whose original arguments could strain credibility.

In Weike Wang’s novel “Rental House,” a couple invite their families to visit them on vacation.

In “Gabriel’s Moon,” William Boyd follows a writer who is drawn into an espionage plot and a global crisis.

The first English translation of Charif Majdalani’s 2005 novel “A History of the Big House” charts one family’s — and country’s — cycles of prosperity and ruin.