Hardcover Fiction

1. The Exchange John Grisham’s “The Firm” sequel (Doubleday, $30).

2. Chemistry Lessons Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29. In the 1960s a woman chemist becomes a single mother, and then a celebrity cook.

3. Tom Lake Ann Patchett, Harper: $30. In a Michigan apple orchard a mother tells her daughters of a romance that took place many years ago.

4. Let us Descend Jesmyn ward (Scribner $28): An enslaved woman…