This combination of book cover images shows “American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump” by Kai Bird, “Music Against the Night: A Novel” by Yiyun Li, “Promise Me, America” by Joe Biden, “Switzy” by Emma Cline, and “The Disappearers” by Marlon James. (Scribner/FSG/Little, Brown & Co./Random House/Riverhead via AP)