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From doppelgängers to dark academia, the Book Review editors share some of their most-anticipated titles.

In “The Man Who Stole the Gods,” Matthew Campbell recounts a shocking, decades-long crime and the search for its perpetrator.In the fallout from the Cambodian civil war, opportunistic thieves looted and dealt in a wealth of antiquities, like this 10th-century sandstone sculpture, to an avid Western market.

Following his “Less” books with “Villa Coco,” Andrew Sean Greer drops an aimless postgraduate into a glamorous, romantic and secret-laden setting.

As the gentle giant who just wanted to live his best life turns 90, Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s classic fable is as apt as ever.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.