A grandmother, her six-year-old granddaughter Sophia, and the child's father spend a summer on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland as the family lives with the recent death of the mother.

A scholarly novice and his mentor arrive at an isolated medieval monastery where a string of mysterious deaths presents a locked-circle investigation.

Mohun Biswas, an Indo‑Trinidadian man, navigates life dominated by an extended family and persistent setbacks while he fixes on owning a house as a measure of independence.

Pepper is involuntarily confined in a budget-strapped psychiatric hospital in Queens and insists he is not mentally ill.

The novel follows a single day in post–World War I London as a well-to-do woman readies an evening party while the narrative follows through multiple characters' inner thoughts and memories.

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.

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.

An editorial assistant who has been the only Black employee at a New York publishing house faces a change when another Black woman is hired.

Set in early 20th-century Florida, the novel follows Janie Crawford as she moves from adolescence into adulthood and seeks a life where she can speak and act for herself. The core pressure is Janie's pursuit of emotional autonomy and self-definition within constrained social and gender roles.