A 2015 collection of short stories in which ghosts and the supernatural intersect with everyday lives. Each tale stages encounters—personal, domestic, or communal—where lingering grief, past wrongs, or unresolved ties create eerie, unsettling situations that reshape characters' present decisions.

A contemporary marriage is strained when one partner harbors a secret tied to unnatural longevity. The setup places trust, love, and the ethical cost of living beyond normal limits against everyday domestic pressures, with a central tension anchored in secrecy and its consequences for a family and a community.

A middle-class African-American husband and father who has long believed he once cheated death faces renewed danger when his family becomes the target of racist threats. As external menace grows, his mental stability frays and supernatural phenomena begin to blur the line between waking life and the world of the dead.

Angela Toussaint returns to her late grandmother’s home in a small Washington town and confronts a legacy of grief, violent history, and supernatural threat tied to that house.

Set against the legacy of a notorious reform school, the novel follows characters who confront buried atrocities and the supernatural traces those abuses may have left behind.

A first-person memoir that follows a woman raised in a survivalist, home‑schooled household who leaves that insular world to attend college and later pursue advanced academic study.

A pragmatic private investigator in India is drawn into a case when a household servant disappears; the investigation unfolds through interviews, local social detail, and procedural clue-gathering.

Set in a fantasy world inspired by ancient India, the novel follows people caught under an imperial regime that has suppressed a subject culture. Political unrest and a spreading affliction intensify tensions while an older temple magic—linked to nature spirits—offers dangerous power.

An aging and famous former movie star commissions a single, final interview with a relatively unknown journalist, using that conversation to recount her life and relationships.

A first-person memoir about a First Nation woman's passage through a troubled childhood, early and fraught motherhood, and ongoing struggles with mental health and identity. The narrative pieces together memory, family history, and personal reflection to show how past trauma informs present life and relationships.

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.

Two former lovers encounter one another again years after a painful breakup while each is living complicated adult lives — including parenthood and professional pressures — and must navigate whether a revived connection can fit into their current responsibilities and identities.

A collection of interlinked short stories drawn from Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War experience, following a platoon of American soldiers. Each chapter focuses on material items, personal recollections, or specific incidents that reveal how memory, fear, and obligation shape their daily lives and relationships.

An extended piece of narrative journalism that follows postwar U.S. test pilots and the first astronauts selected for Project Mercury, probing why these men accepted extreme danger and how American aviation and space culture valorized risk.

A linked ensemble novel that follows multiple Native American characters living in and around Oakland who converge around a community powwow.

Set after the American Civil War, the novel focuses on a formerly enslaved woman who lives in Cincinnati and must confront a violent past that continues to intrude on daily life.

Two girls grow up together in a Black Ohio neighborhood and their friendship—shaped by class, family, and local expectations—becomes a lasting pressure that reshapes both their lives and the community around them.

Set in a Midwestern town during the Depression era, the novel follows a young Black girl who internalizes local and cultural standards of beauty and longs for blue eyes as a way to be seen as lovable.

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.

An orc ex-adventurer decides to leave life as a mercenary to open a coffee shop. The novel follows the practical challenges of creating a shop—menu, customers, staff—and the quieter pressure of remaking identity and relationships in a new, ordinary routine.

A retired art professor and collector secretly works as a professional assassin. He is pulled back into service to avenge the murder of an American agent, a mission that entwines high-altitude mountaineering with clandestine espionage and a fixation on art objects.

A long-form nonfiction account of the 1959 murders of a farming family in rural Kansas and the investigation that followed. The work follows the discovery of the crime, the police inquiry, interviews with townspeople and suspects, and the eventual identification, trial, and punishment of the perpetrators.

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

Set among a hidden network that assigns hits, the novel follows an individual tied to that system whose work and choices set up the central pressure: how does someone who arranges and executes murder live inside the rules, routines, and rivalries of an organized underworld?

A Wizard of Earthsea follows Ged, a gifted youth from the island of Gont, whose early talent leads him to a school of wizardry. After a duel goes wrong and releases a dangerous shadow, he must leave home and undertake a solitary quest to confront and undo the harm he caused.

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.

Two contrasting societies — one organized around communal, anarchist principles and the other structured by more conventional hierarchy and market relations — come into contact.

A man’s dreams have the power to change the real world, and those around him — including a psychiatrist — must confront the consequences of shaping reality through unconscious wishes.

A human envoy arrives on a frigid, isolated planet to persuade its nations to join an interstellar confederation, but finds himself hampered by profound cultural and sexual differences.

A girl taken as a child becomes the high priestess of a closed, sacred tomb complex and endures a life of ritual, solitude, and strict hierarchy.

On a forested alien world, an occupying human logging colony treats the native population as subjugated labor. Tensions escalate after an especially brutal crime, and a native leader mobilizes resistance against the colonists.

Ayesha At Last is a contemporary romantic novel centered on a Muslim woman navigating family expectations, matchmaking pressures, and a developing romantic relationship within her community.

Set against a mid-20th-century rural backdrop, the novel follows a Mexican woman who suffers a brutal, gendered assault and dies; her final cries summon a pre-Hispanic goddess whose return initiates bloody retribution against those who harmed her.

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.

A man trained from childhood to assassinate a prominent spiritual leader faces the dilemma of carrying out that mission within a city where supernatural "bright doors" intersect everyday life.

A 2023 historical novel that places a lone woman into a Western-era community where past traumas and local mysteries collide with uncanny phenomena. The book sets up a central pressure: an outsider's efforts to survive and make a home amid suspicion, danger, and signs that something otherworldly may be at work.

Set in 1920s New York, the novella reworks an earlier Lovecraft tale by shifting perspective to a Black protagonist who becomes entangled with an occult text and a mysterious client.

A contemporary father and husband faces an escalating crisis when ordinary family life collides with an inexplicable disappearance and supernatural forces. The book tracks how personal grief and a search for answers intersect with occult intrusion, putting domestic stability, identity, and safety under pressure.

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

An anonymous narrator, a North Vietnamese mole embedded in the South Vietnamese army, recounts life after the fall of Saigon while living among a South Vietnamese exile community in the United States.

A Room of One's Own argues that women need literal and financial autonomy—a private room and independent income—to write and participate fully in literary culture.

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.

Set after a catastrophic nuclear war, the novel follows members of a Catholic monastery who preserve fragments of scientific knowledge while centuries pass and human societies slowly re-form.

Set in late-1940s Los Angeles, the novel follows Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, an unemployed Black man who takes on a missing-person job that draws him into criminal danger and complex social worlds.

A mystery told through several first-person documents and witness statements: an artist-teacher becomes entangled with a disturbing female figure and a dispute over inheritance and identity.

Set in a near-future urban milieu, the story follows a drug-damaged computer hacker recruited by a team — including a battle-hardened ex-soldier and a powerful artificial intelligence — to pull off a high-stakes digital heist.

A tightly plotted conspiracy thriller about a young man drawn into a dangerous web of secrets connected to his brother and a larger, violent past.

A young girl experiences an escalating, violent form of possession that draws medical professionals and Catholic clergy into a struggle over diagnosis and deliverance.

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.