10 Must-Read New Books Out This Week

When her mother dies, Yejide’s left with a destiny she was never trained for: helping dead souls reach the afterlife. While working at a cemetery, she meets Darwin — a young man working as a gravedigger to support his devout mother, whose religion forbids contact with the dead.

This ripped-from-the-headlines novel follows Naomi, an aspiring young writer who begins stalking her boyfriend’s ex, Rosemary — and writing a novel based on Rosemary’s life.

Melissa Febos’ new memoir-in-essays also serves as a craft guide for aspiring authors — particularly those who wish to explore the ethics, philosophy, and reality of writing about the self and others.

Another essay collection, this slim book from Elena Ferrante — the pseudonymous author of The Lost Daughter and My Brilliant Friend — recounts Ferrante’s formative reading and writing experiences.

Buffy fans, take note! Evan Ross Katz’s Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born traces the legacy of the supernatural teen drama, examining how the series changed fandom and pop culture.

Mixing myth and realism, Eloghosa Osunde’s Vagabonds! paints vivid portraits of the outcasts living on the margins of contemporary Nigerian society.

Tempest’s dad runs novelty construction company, which turns ordinary homes into gothic mystery-worthy houses. There’s no real mystery to it, though — until a body turns up in a room that’s supposedly been sealed for over a century.

One seemingly ordinary map destroyed Nell’s relationship with her father and her burgeoning cartography career. But after her dad is found dead, and Nell discovers the map hidden away in his desk, she realizes there’s more to the story.

Decades after her murder acquittal, a wealthy eccentric agrees to speak with a young true-crime blogger, who happens to be a crime survivor herself. But when the blogger arrives, she soon realizes that all is not as it seems in the older woman’s manor.

Norwegian author Silje Ulstein’s debut novel twists together two narratives: one about a young pothead and her pet python, the other centered on the mother of a missing child. Thirteen years separates these narratives, but something far stronger than time connects them.