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This section reviews the books "Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel," by Casey McQuiston, "A Prince on Paper: Reluctant Royals," by Alyssa Cole and "Kingdom of Exiles," by Maxym M. Martineau.

The article reviews the book "Paper Tiger," by Olivier Rolin, translated by William Cloonan.

Reviews the book "The Blackbird Papers," by Ian Smith.

Reviews the fiction book 'A Ship Made of Paper,' by Scott Spencer.

Reviews the children's book 'Yoko's Paper Cranes,' written and illustrated by Rosemary Wells.

A review of the book "Paper Wishes," by Lois Sepahban, is presented.

Reviews the fiction book 'Paper Products,' by James W. Hall.

Reviews two books of poetry about art, "Inner Voices," and "Paper Trail," by Richard Howard.

ANATHEM, by Neal Stephenson (Harper Perennial, $16.99.) Set in a world similar but not identical to our own, ''Anathem'' imagines a monastic order whose members contemplate issues of math, physics and philosophy, and live their lives without electronic technology. But Stephenson's hero, an ascetic named Erasmas, and his order are called back into the world to save civilization from an extraterrestrial crisis. Stephenson ''delights in the language and etymology he has designed for his fictional world . . . and in the 7,000 years of detailed history he has given it,'' Dave Itzkoff wrote in the Book Review. MY PAPER CHASE: True Stories of Vanished Times, by Harold Evans (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $16.99.) Evans, who has served as the editor of The Sunday Times of London and The Times of London, recalls his ascent in a swashbuckling era of British journalism: from his first exposure at age 16 to his championing of investigative journalism that, among other things, exposed the Soviet spy Kim Philby and achieved justice for the deformed child victims of the drug thalidomide. (In a busy second act, Evans became an executive at the Atlantic Monthly Press, U.S. News & World Report, Conde Nast Traveler and Random House.) ''My Paper Chase'' ''celebrates bygone glories and dwells on the truths of good journalism that still obtain,'' our reviewer, David Carr, wrote. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews books such as "A Land More Kind Than Home" by Wiley Cash, "Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires: A Surprising Number of Which Are Not About Marriage" by Pete Dexter, and "In One Person" by John Irving.

The article reviews the book "The Marlowe Papers" by Ros Barber.

The article reviews the book "Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted," by Eric Nuzum.

ROCK PAPER TIGER By Lisa Brackmann [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE POPULARITY PAPERS Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE WOMEN, by T. C. Boyle (Penguin, $16.) Love, not architecture, is the focus of Boyle's novel about Frank Lloyd Wright. Boyle views his protagonist through the lens of his messy relationships with women and divides his story into sections corresponding to Wright's major romances. In the Book Review, Joanna Scott praised the novel as a ''powerful new chapter'' of Boyle's ''hilarious and terrifying fictional history of utopian longing in America,'' a ''mesmerizing story of women who invest everything, at great risk, in . . . Wright.'' THE MERCY PAPERS: A Memoir of Three Weeks, by Robin Romm. (Scribner, $13.) This ''furious blaze of a book,'' as our reviewer, Leah Hager Cohen, described it, explores Romm's anguish over her 56-year-old mother's impending death from breast cancer. Romm writes with ''fresh and uncompromising'' prose, ''fearless, scathing honesty'' and magnetic anger, Cohen said. Death also shadows Diana Athill's SOMEWHERE TOWARDS THE END: A Memoir(Norton, $13.95), but she contemplates its approach from the perspective of a long life. A celebrated London editor, Athill, now 92, speaks gracefully and with good cheer about the losses and gains of old age. Life, she concludes, is ''amazingly capacious.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PAPER TOWNS By John Green [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the book "The Bloodstone Papers," by Glen Duncan.

This article reviews the book "The House of Paper," by Carlos Maria Dominguez, translated by Nick Caistor.

Reviews the books "Music of the Mill," by Luis J. Rodriguez, and "The People of Paper," by Salvador Plascencia.

Reviews the fiction book 'A Ship Made of Paper,' by Scott Spencer.

That keening voice you hear in THE SCARECROW (Little, Brown, $27.99) belongs to a Michael Connelly you may not know -- not the best-selling author riding high on his 20th novel, but the newspaper guy who started out covering the crime beat for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and went on to become a top crime reporter for The Los Angeles Times. That voice was a lot cockier in ''The Poet,'' the 1996 thriller in which Connelly introduced Jack McEvoy, a hotshot Denver newsman who parlays a much too personal encounter with a poetry-spouting serial killer into a best-selling book and a ride out of town to a bigger paper. Here, the voice is considerably more subdued and more than a little desperate, as Jack, who has just been pink-slipped at The Los Angeles Times, latches on to another psycho as his professional meal ticket, envisioning one last great story before The Times, if not the entire newspaper industry, goes down in flames. Connelly, who has the nerve and timing of a whole SWAT team, gives Jack two weeks to find the creep who's been raping and killing attractive long-legged women and dumping their remains in car trunks -- if his young replacement doesn't beat him to the story. But this ambitious upstart is too lovely and leggy for her own good, and the smart money's on Jack. To make the story sexier, Jack picks up a partner -- Rachel Walling, the supersmart F.B.I. agent who jeopardized her career for him in ''The Poet.'' These two follow the Internet trail of identity theft, pornography Web sites, electronic surveillance and industrial sabotage right to its source, a vast data processing and storage operation known as ''the farm'' and protected by a certain mastermind known as the Scarecrow. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews several books including "The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things," by Paula Byrne, "10th of December: Stories," by George Saunders, and "Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City, a WWII Spy & a True Story of Deadly Adventure (Book)," by Christopher S. Stewart.

THE IMPERFECTIONISTS By Tom Rachman [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE FINDER By Colin Harrison. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the book 'A Box of Matches,' by Nicholson Baker.

Reviews the book 'City,' by Alessandro Baricco.

The article reviews several books including "The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War," by Fred Kaplan, "The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures," by Edward Ball, and "The Marlowe Papers," by Ros Barber.

WALKS WITH MEN, by Ann Beattie (Scribner, cloth, $17; paper, $10.) Set in the early '80s, Beattie's novella is the story of an older man instructing a young literarily inclined woman in the ways of the world, even though she soon begins to see through him. THREE DELAYS, by Charlie Smith (Harper Perennial, paper, $14.99.) Smith has written a hallucinatory novel whose central characters spiral through a demonic, cataclysmic romance that burns all it touches. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews books of fiction and poetry. `The Fennel Family Papers' by William Baldwin; `E-Mail: A Love Story' by Stephanie D. Fletcher; `Honorable Amendments: Poems' by Michael S. Harper; More books mentioned; Reviewers including Elizabeth Gaffney, Dwight Garner, and Bruce Allen.

THIS ISN'T THE SORT OF THING THAT HAPPENS TO SOMEONE LIKE YOU Stories. By Jon McGregor. Bloomsbury, paper, $16. If a sugar beet falls off a truck in a story by McGregor, it's safe to assume things won't go well for the car directly behind. In these 30 electric tales of menace, however, this wicked British writer is less interested in how things pan out than in capturing that awful moment when someone recognizes he is powerless to undo his fate. (For one luckless character, the real threat looms after she has survived a smashed windshield and been rescued by two seemingly model citizens.) This is a book of ominous preludes and chilling aftermaths: the incantatory account of a vacationer at a war-ravaged resort in the minutes before he drowns; the Pinteresque power play of a vicar's wife whose husband offers shelter to a gallingly manipulative stranger. McGregor stealthily commands our active engagement, scattering crumbs of data for us to pick through, gumshoe-style. The technique shrewdly exposes the disconnection of transgressive characters, like the miscreant father refused entry to his daughter's Nativity pageant, or the man who wreaks terrible vengeance on a noisy neighbor. The neighbor's punishment? McGregor puts faith in the cruelty of his readers' imaginations, leaving that to us. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

NO ONE By Gwenaelle Aubry. Translated by Trista Selous. Tin House, paper, $12.95. The question of identity haunts Aubry's slim, tough novel about a Parisian lawyer suffering from bipolar disorder and the havoc he causes in the lives of those close to him. Written from a daughter's perspective after her father's death (and with names unchanged to create a blurry fictional boundary), ''No One'' takes the unusual form of a memoir-as-alphabet-book, with each letter illustrating a different aspect of Francois-Xavier Aubry's life and illness. ''H,'' for example, is for ''Hoffman (Dustin),'' whom her father strongly resembled. The writer recalls watching ''Kramer vs. Kramer'' and ''thinking, looking at this father alone in an apartment with his child, that he had done just that for us too, . . . keeping his ghosts and delusions at bay to perform the actions that cradle childhood.'' The elder Aubry's madness manifested itself in a 200-page manuscript on which he scrawled the words ''To be novelized,'' an injunction the author honors by liberally quoting from her father's own words. The lives of the mentally ill and those who care for them are inevitably visited by repetition and exhaustion, and Aubry's meticulous explication of her father's condition can't help containing instances of both. Yet her virtuosic sentences and ingenious structure make up for the narrative stasis. The reader feels privileged to gain access to these troubled minds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]