A modern adolescent discovers a tie to the old Greek gods and is thrust into a quest that mixes mythic monsters with contemporary urban life. The immediate pressure is a mission across landmarks to resolve a theft and personal mystery while learning who to trust.

Penelope tells her side of the Odyssey: a conversational, retrospective account that revisits her marriage, life after Odysseus’s departure, and the aftermath of his return, while a Greek chorus of her twelve maids interrupts with short, varied genres to offer alternate viewpoints and collective voice.

Set chiefly in New Jersey with ties to the Dominican Republic, the novel follows Oscar de León — a lonely, pop-culture–obsessed young man — and his family across generations as they live under the shadow of a transatlantic curse linked to historical brutality.

A first-person, self-aware narrative that gives voice to Lavinia, a minor figure from Virgil's Aeneid. The book recounts her life, relationships, and the political and personal consequences of marriage and prophecy as she becomes tied to Trojan arrivals and the founding-myth world around her.

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.

A contemporary novel shaped like a folktale in which a young woman and those around her navigate consequences after a theft and encounters with trickster spirits. The setup focuses on moral complications inside domestic relationships and the social effects of magic on everyday life.

A young woman with a disputed claim to a ruling house is summoned to the capital to contend for a throne and to answer dangerous questions about her lineage.

A wandering, nocturnal circus full of impossible attractions serves as the stage for a concealed magical contest whose rules and contestants are revealed in fragments.

A Stranger in Olondria follows an outsider in a foreign city whose interest in local books, monks, and oral traditions pulls them into investigations of stories, memory, and uncanny occurrences.