Set before and after a fictional, devastating influenza pandemic, the book traces several connected people — including actors who tour small settlements — as they navigate loss, survival, and the persistence of art.

Set in late-19th-century New York, the story follows two supernatural outsiders—a golem created in Europe and a jinni liberated at sea—each stranded in a city they do not understand. Both must learn to hide their natures, adopt human customs, and find ways to meet emotional needs that differ from those around them.

Two longtime friends reconnect and build a successful video game company together, navigating creative disagreements, business pressures, and personal histories. The story follows their partnership across years as careers, fame, and private wounds test loyalty and shared invention.

Several loosely connected characters across different eras encounter anomalies that call into question the nature of reality, time, and memory.

Set in New Zealand's South Island in 1866, the novel opens with a prospector who arrives on the West Coast goldfields and becomes entangled with a group of twelve local men and a string of unsolved crimes.

A multi-generational family saga tracing the legacies of slavery and migration across several branches of one extended lineage. Each short chapter follows a descendant in a different time and place, showing how historical violence and displacement shape personal lives across generations.

A married couple's crisis becomes the novel's engine when the wife disappears and attention turns to the husband as a suspect.

Six distinct narratives, each written in a different voice and set in a different time and place, are arranged so that echoes between them imply moral and causal connections across eras.

Six individuals across New York awaken as living embodiments of the city’s boroughs while a hostile, otherworldly force threatens the metropolis.

Lulu Miller interweaves a personal memoir about grief and depression with the life and work of 19th-century fish taxonomist David Starr Jordan to probe how humans try to impose order on a chaotic world.

A formally inventive novel that stages an Asian American life through the language and beats of television scripts, focusing on how roles and stereotypes shape a character’s ambitions and relations.

Two girls grow up together in a Black Ohio neighborhood and their friendship—shaped by class, family, and local expectations—becomes a lasting pressure that reshapes both their lives and the community around them.