A narrative investigation into how animal infections jump into humans and create new epidemics, built from scientific case studies, interviews with researchers, and on-the-ground reportage.

A murder is discovered on the grounds of Belle Vie, a working antebellum plantation in Louisiana that now operates as an event venue. The estate’s manager becomes entangled in the official investigation and the local upheaval that follows, with labor relations and the plantation’s history intensifying the stakes.

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

India Morgan Phelps (Imp) attempts to write her memoir while living with schizophrenia, anxiety, and OCD. Her account circles a romantic relationship with a transgender partner and a fixation on a mysterious, silent woman found beside a road.

A woman who has left a life tied to intelligence work is living overseas when a chain of events forces secrets from her past back into play, putting family and identity at risk.

A yearlong, site-specific study of a single patch of old-growth forest: the author records regular close observations across seasons and links those moments to ecological facts and reflective thought.

Set in a city where a religious temple practices dream-based magic, the novel follows a sequence of murders and rising threats that risk turning political tension into open conflict.

A police detective continues to pursue criminal investigations as larger social collapse looms, confronting cases that intersect with themes of suicide and civic breakdown. The central pressure is how an officer's commitment to law and process holds against an eroding public order and personal unease.

A tightly focused, first-person account centered on a Black working-class family in Mississippi as they prepare for and endure Hurricane Katrina.

A retelling of the Trojan War era centered on the relationship between a famed Greek warrior and the person who witnesses and loves him. The account compresses mythic events into a personal, emotionally charged narrative that follows their bond through training, war, and the pressures of fame and fate.

A first-person memoir tracing the author's journey from an abusive childhood through competitive swimming, substance use, and sexual exploration toward eventual stability in adult life.

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.

Thirteen interrelated stories trace a network of people connected to a record executive and his assistant across several decades. The pieces jump in time and viewpoint, following mostly self-destructive characters whose lives turn in unforeseen directions as they age.

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 sweeping, literary account of cancer treated as a historical subject: how clinicians, researchers, and institutions have identified, named, studied, and attempted to treat cancer over decades and centuries.

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.

An investigative nonfiction account tracing the life of Henrietta Lacks and the origin of the HeLa cell line, focusing on how her cells were taken, used in scientific research, and the ethical, racial, and personal consequences for her family.

Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration in the United States operates as a contemporary racial caste system—what she terms the "New Jim Crow."

An author convalescing with a chronic illness observes and cares for a wild snail that becomes a daily companion. The book records close, patient attention to the snail’s behavior and anatomy while using that relationship to reflect on bodily experience, time, and recovery.

A narrative history of the Great Migration, tracing the movement of Black Americans out of the U.S. South into northern, midwestern, and western cities across much of the twentieth century.

This book looks closely at how people behave in major disasters, arguing against the idea that chaos and panic are the default. Using historical episodes and reporting, it shows recurring patterns of spontaneous cooperation, improvisation, and mutual aid that form temporary communities in the wake of catastrophe.

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 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 mid-20th-century England, the story focuses on a physician who becomes entwined with a once-grand house and its family as strange occurrences and social decline intensify. The pressure comes from the intersection of a medical, rational viewpoint with uncanny events tied to a deteriorating domestic world.