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Each month,Boris Kachkaoffers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations.

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You should read as many of them as possible.

See his picks fromlast month.

Gripping and meticulous, Ceps work doesnt make us choose between fidelity and style.

Spring, by Ali Smith (Pantheon, May 1)

What if you could write about a corporate patriarchal dystopia without recourse to mythologies or bonnets?

What if you could just amp up the way we live now?

Hosts, for the wealthy.

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, by Casey Cep (Knopf, May 7)

But the creepiness builds so subtly, sorealistically, thatThe Farmnever feels preachy, just terrifyingly true.

Ma surreally collapses past and present, undoing Xis work with every ironic reversal and juxtaposition.

The style and soul are what matter here; Porters is utterly unique.

The Farm, by Joanne Ramos (Random House, May 7)

Taylor was a sociopathic manipulator and possibly a murderer.

His portrait of her is unflinching; so is his portrayal of the demagogues who profited from her story.

China Dream, by Ma Jian, trans. Flora Dew (Counterpoint, May 7)

Lanny, by Max Porter (Graywolf, May 14)

Disappearing Earth, by Julia Phillips (Knopf, May 14)

Orange World and Other Stories, by Karen Russell (Knopf, May 14)

The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth, by Josh Levin (Little, Brown, May 21)