A small group becomes trapped amid ruins on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and must improvise to stay alive against a hostile, escalating threat. The book stages survival under tightening physical and social constraints, asking how far people will go when environment and fear close in.

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 a near-future America broken by economic collapse, climate effects, and violence, the novel follows Lauren Olamina, a young woman who records her experiences and develops a practical belief system called Earthseed.

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.

Set in the Arctic and rooted in Inuit experience, the novel follows an individual and their community as they face personal and collective pressures tied to survival, spiritual practice, and contact with outsiders.

Set in a future ruined city overrun by biotechnology, the story follows a scavenger named Rachel who collects genetic experiments and discarded engineered organisms. The city is dominated by a massive engineered grizzly, and Rachel discovers an unusual sea-anemone–like creature she names Borne.

An Indian boy named Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel survives a long sea voyage after a shipwreck and is forced to share a lifeboat with zoo animals, most notably a Bengal tiger.

A fictional reimagining of a doomed overland expedition in the 19th-century American West that places characters under escalating scarcity and suspicion.

A small collective of guerilla gardeners called Birnam Wood accepts backing from a charismatic tech billionaire to undertake a project on neglected farmland.

Set mainly in California's Salinas Valley, the novel follows interwoven lives across two families as sons, fathers, and neighbors grapple with choices that echo biblical themes of sibling rivalry and moral responsibility.

An astronaut wakes with amnesia aboard a stranded spacecraft and must piece together who he is and why he's on a one-way mission to avert an extinction-level threat to Earth.

An academic family in the American Midwest navigates everyday routines, consumer culture, and family dynamics while an external technological/industrial threat forces questions about death, risk, and how people manage fear.