An American living in Paris confronts his feelings for another man while his fiancée is away, forcing him to face desire, social expectations, and his own self-image.

A small ensemble of visitors gather at a large, notorious house where unsettling occurrences and interpersonal fractures intensify around the building itself.

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.

Set primarily inside an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative is told through the vantage of a patient who presents as deaf and mute. The plot focuses on tensions between the ward’s controlling staff and a charismatic newcomer whose actions unsettle the ward’s fragile order.

An eighteen-year-old narrator lives with her agoraphobic sister and ailing uncle in an isolated family home long shunned by their village after a past tragedy. The novel records how the household maintains rituals and defenses while outside hostility and the characters’ secrets exert pressure on daily life.

A young woman in the early 1950s experiences an increasingly severe depression while navigating academic opportunity, social expectations, and the pressures of adulthood. The novel presents her interior perspective as she struggles with identity, career choices, and the medical responses to her mental illness.

A restrained literary novel tracing the life and career of William Stoner, an English professor who discovers a devotion to literature and then navigates classroom politics, a troubled marriage, and a consequential affair.

A man with intellectual disability undergoes an experimental medical procedure intended to raise his intelligence, and the narrative records the aftermath through dated personal entries.

A multi-generational saga centered on a single family and the town they founded, tracking births, deaths, loves, and obsessions across decades.