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.

A multi-century, character-focused account of a single house in New England and the people who inhabit, alter, and imagine it over time. The book traces lives and local change through episodes anchored to the house, using domestic objects and family relationships to show historical shifts and personal consequences.

Set in Victorian-era Britain, the novel follows characters entangled in theft, deception, and social constraint in London. The central pressure revolves around trust and betrayal among people on different rungs of the social ladder, where schemes and personal desires collide and reshape relationships.

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.

Set around wartime conflict in Ethiopia, the book follows characters caught up in the pressures of invasion and resistance. Its central orientation is toward people’s inner responses to violence and the ways ordinary lives and loyalties are tested by war.

Set in a period social world where dressmaking, tailoring, and horsemanship matter to status and identity, the novel follows characters negotiating intimate relationships across racial lines and strict social codes.

A small, remote English setting hosts a tightly observed family story in which religious rites, interpersonal strain, and mysterious occurrences create sustained unease.

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.

A retelling of the early life of Merlin that frames his psychic visions and uncertain parentage within the fractured, post-Roman kingdoms of Britain.

Presented through a collage of documents, memoir excerpts, and alternate accounts, the novel orients on a secretive, immensely wealthy financier and the contested stories about him and his wife.

An upper-class girl makes a misjudgment with far-reaching consequences; the novel follows the fallout across pre-war, wartime, and later life, and includes a self-aware reflection on writing and responsibility.

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