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.

A contemporary Black woman living in 1970s Los Angeles is repeatedly pulled back in time to a Maryland plantation in the early 19th century, where she encounters ancestors and must navigate slavery's social and moral realities to survive and return to her own time.

A literary fantasy that situates several women’s lives inside a shared historical and cultural landscape, using personal narratives and communal memory to trace how past events shape identity and responsibility.

Set in Nazi-era Germany, the novel follows a young girl who acquires books and navigates life in an adoptive household while war encroaches on daily routines. The narration comes from Death, offering an outside, occasionally amused perspective on civilians, loss, and the act of reading.

An elite human soldier raised in an isolated outpost sets out believing Earth was destroyed by an external enemy; as she pursues vengeance, she discovers that the story she's been taught about Earth's fate is misleading and must decide what to do with that new truth.

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 the 1920s, the novel follows a young woman whose life becomes entangled with Maya gods and a mythic journey. A relationship with a divinity prompts a quest and confrontations with death and fate, folding Mexican fable elements into a period social world.

Set during the American Civil War, the novel focuses on a freedwoman who takes a dangerous undercover role within a Confederate household to gather intelligence, while a man posing as a Confederate soldier is secretly working the same network for Union purposes.

A speculative epidemic causes people to lose their shadows and, with them, memories and names; survivors must cope with erasing personal history while some exploit or hunt the newly nameless. The setup focuses on how memory failure reshapes relationships, social order, and survival choices in a collapsing world.

A 2023 historical novel that places a lone woman into a Western-era community where past traumas and local mysteries collide with uncanny phenomena. The book sets up a central pressure: an outsider's efforts to survive and make a home amid suspicion, danger, and signs that something otherworldly may be at work.

Set in early sixteenth-century England, the novel follows the rise of a skilled lawyer and fixer inside the royal court, concentrating on his practical work, alliances, and the political currents that elevate him.

Set in a far-future, quasi-medieval city, the novel follows Severian, an apprentice in a torturers' guild, whose expulsion forces him to leave his home and travel into a decaying world.