A contemporary romance centered on a married couple whose relationship is strained by loss and psychological pressure. The story follows their attempts to navigate grief, miscommunication, and the decision points that will determine whether the marriage endures or falls apart.

An English academic with a penchant for puzzles becomes involved in a London mystery centered on a strange toyshop and a missing person. The setup puts a cerebral, amateur detective into a circle of eccentric characters and cryptic clues that require deduction and local knowledge to sort out.

A lone, recovering writer in a modern city discovers evidence of an occult pattern—drawn from a found journal and strange urban phenomena—that suggests unseen entities connected to the city's emotional life.

Set in a near-future Nigeria after an alien presence appears, the novel follows a Nigerian agent who can access a shared alien-linked information network through nervous-system-affecting fungal growths.

Set across decades around an attempted assassination of a major reggae figure, the novel tracks how that act ripples through Kingston and New York over years of changing politics, gangs, and drug economies.

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 man with a troubled past relocates with his children to his ancestral home in coastal Newfoundland and starts anew while working for the local newspaper.

A thirty-something woman travels to her deceased grandmother’s rural home to clear it out and discovers a relative’s writings and a second, unsettling manuscript that record obsessions with a forbidding local book.

Set in a farming community, the novel follows how the arrival or actions of a persuasive auctioneer alters local social bonds and everyday life. The central pressure comes from interpersonal influence, suspicion, and the erosion of trust among neighbors.

Set in a future ruined city overrun by biotechnology, the story follows a scavenger named Rachel who collects genetic experiments and discarded engineered organisms. The city is dominated by a massive engineered grizzly, and Rachel discovers an unusual sea-anemone–like creature she names Borne.

A multi-part novel that follows members of a single Irish family across interlinked sections, each devoted to one of four family figures.

A cleric from a monastery visits an abandoned imperial palace shortly after an empress's death and listens as the empress's former servant recounts the ruler's life.

A father with a criminal past confronts an urgent family crisis involving his daughter and choices that threaten to undo both their lives. The setup focuses on parental responsibility, the consequences of past crimes, and a high-stakes situation that forces the protagonist to weigh loyalty, protection, and legal peril.

A detailed biography of Alexander von Humboldt that follows his formative years, major expeditions—especially in Latin America—and his intellectual effort to present nature as an interconnected system.

Richard Wright's Black Boy is a memoir of his childhood and early adulthood, following life in the segregated American South and his later move to Chicago where he begins a writing career and political engagement.

A linked memoir of personal and communal loss: the author recounts the deaths of five Black men connected to her across roughly four years and situates those deaths within family history, local conditions, and systemic forces.

Through a sequence of illustrated chapters and reflective sections, the author traces her parents’ lives in Vietnam, their escape after the fall of South Vietnam, and the family’s resettlement in the United States.

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

An ordinary-seeming encounter between strangers escalates into a plotted decision about murder and consequence. The setup focuses on characters who trade confidences and proposals that test ethics and self-interest, then follow the fallout as allegiances and truth become unreliable.

Lucy Muchelney, escaping a painful public marriage scene, answers a call from the Countess of Moth to translate a significant French astronomy text. She arrives at the Countess’s London house expecting work and finds Catherine St Day, a widow who hoped to finish her late husband’s scientific legacy and retire.

A country solicitor is drawn into defending a mother and daughter accused of abducting and assaulting a visiting young woman. The plot hinges on assembling testimony, scrutinizing inconsistent claims, and testing how community suspicion and newspaper pressure shape culpability.

Set in an early 20th-century Brooklyn neighborhood, the novel follows a young girl growing up amid economic hardship and complex family dynamics. It traces the pressures of poverty, education, and personal ambition as the child negotiates loyalty to family and the desire for a different future.

A writer trains and lives with a hawk as she processes bereavement, using close attention to the bird and falconry practice as a way to reckon with grief.

An investigation into nonhuman minds using cephalopods—especially octopuses—as a case study.