Novels by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Karen Russell, nonfiction by Ezra Klein, new “Hunger Games” and “Wicked” prequels and more.

The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali’ by Cassidy Randall In 1970, before women could compete in the Boston Marathon and before Title IX had been signed into law, pervasive thinking held that any mountain a woman could summit wasn’t worth a man’s time.

This month’s must-reads include astronaut and activist Amanda Nguyen’s debut memoir, Torrey Peters’ experimental follow-up to her 2021 debut bestseller Detransition, Baby, and Abdulrazak Gurnah’s first new novel since winning the Nobel Prize four years ago.