Set on an 18th-century Jamaican sugar plantation, the novel follows Lilith, a young woman born into slavery, as she navigates the violent limits imposed on her body and choices.

Angela Toussaint returns to her late grandmother’s home in a small Washington town and confronts a legacy of grief, violent history, and supernatural threat tied to that house.

Set against the legacy of a notorious reform school, the novel follows characters who confront buried atrocities and the supernatural traces those abuses may have left behind.

A house in England exerts an active, hostile presence while a young twin, Miranda, contends with family loss and an ambiguous relationship to the dwelling. The novel combines ghostly and vampire-inflected elements to stage domestic dread and inheritance as intimate, supernatural pressure.

Set in antebellum Virginia, the novel tracks interconnected lives in a county shaped by slavery and unexpected ownership dynamics, including Black Americans who themselves become slaveholders.

An elderly Congregational minister composes an extended letter to his young son late in life, recounting his own family history, the tensions between pacifism and militant abolitionism in his forebears, and the spiritual convictions that shape his sense of duty and affection.

Set in an imagined Antebellum United States, the novel follows Cora, an enslaved woman who flees a Georgia plantation via an Underground Railroad visualized as an actual subterranean railway.

A contemporary, character-focused novel centered on characters navigating fraught private relationships and ethical pressure in an American setting. The narrative opens from intimate vantage points and builds tension through choices, secrets, and the slow widening of consequences rather than by external action.

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.

Set in the Chicken Hill neighborhood of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, during the 1920s and 1930s, the novel follows the intersecting lives of Black and Jewish residents centered around a neighborhood grocery.

A tightly focused, first-person account centered on a Black working-class family in Mississippi as they prepare for and endure Hurricane Katrina.

Sarah Crowe moves from Atlanta to an old rural Rhode Island house and finds an unfinished manuscript left by a former tenant — a parapsychologist fixated on an ancient oak on the property.