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Editors at The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.

Claire Keegan’s “Small Things Like These” uncovers the Catholic Church’s centuries-long conspiracy to imprison, abuse and even murder “fallen women” and their children.

Patchett talks about her new essay collection, and Corey Brettschneider discusses a series of books about liberty.

Celebrated as both a writer of short fiction and a translator, Davis shows in her new collection, “Essays Two,” how the two practices are inextricably linked.

Robert Gottlieb’s scrupulous study, “Garbo,” suggests that the great star was a sphinx without a secret.

Hervé Le Tellier’s novel, a runaway best seller and prize winner in France, is about the strange and mysterious fate of the passengers on a flight from Paris to New York.

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.