Set during World War II in England, the novel follows a wounded young soldier convalescing at a military hospital who confronts feelings for men with very different positions and temperaments.

Two adults form a romantic connection within a contemporary setting while each navigates emotional wounds and mental-health challenges. The book follows the development of attraction and trust as characters confront past trauma, seek stability, and test whether new intimacy can coexist with ongoing recovery.

A methodical police investigation into a series of linked killings anchors the book: detectives follow cryptic clues that connect victims and a recurring symbolic motif as they race to identify a serial perpetrator.

Set in a Caribbean social world, the novel tracks characters whose private histories and public roles intersect with race, class, and the island’s social customs. Tensions arise as personal ambitions and generational expectations collide with broader questions about who belongs and who speaks for the community.

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 1991 novel by Kathe Koja that focuses on an ordinary domestic life disturbed by an uncanny, physical mystery that draws the protagonists into escalating fixation and danger.

Set around a richly imagined city and its secret histories, the novel follows characters entangled with djinn, political factions, and the social order of an elemental magical society.

Six individuals across New York awaken as living embodiments of the city’s boroughs while a hostile, otherworldly force threatens the metropolis.

A linked collection of personal essays in which the author describes living with schizophrenia and related diagnoses, linking firsthand memoir to discussion of clinical diagnosis, treatment, and the social realities of mental illness.

A novel told through letters that follow a Black woman’s life in the American South across early adulthood, tracing how she survives sexual and domestic abuse, discovers personal voice, and finds connection with other women.

Set in a near future where disease is mostly cured, a woman given a terminal diagnosis becomes the object of a reality program that wants to televise her final days. She resists being packaged for entertainment, unaware that a reporter bearing covert cameras is recording her without consent.

Three extended nonfiction essays look closely at distinct episodes where people tried to redirect, constrain, or rebuild around powerful natural forces: efforts on a major river system, responses to a volcanic eruption, and work against mountain debris flows.

Set in Laos in the 1970s, an elderly physician with little formal forensic experience is appointed state coroner. He confronts suspicious deaths amid political upheaval and scarce institutional support, and must piece together causes and motives while navigating party politics and local customs.

An aging Midwestern couple prepares for a final family Christmas while their three adult children, each entangled in personal and professional crises, converge around longstanding resentments and private failures.

A retelling of the early life of Merlin that frames his psychic visions and uncertain parentage within the fractured, post-Roman kingdoms of Britain.

A 15-year-old math-minded narrator who describes his world through exact observations decides to investigate the mystery of a neighbor's dead dog. The investigatory quest exposes family tensions and forces the narrator to navigate social rules and sources of fear while trying to hold to his own systems of logic.

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.

An eleven-year-old English boy discovers on his birthday that he belongs to an ancient group of guardians opposed to a rising Dark. Faced with recovering lost magical talismans and learning his new role, he must act quickly as the balance between Light and Dark tightens.

Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant, laid up with a broken leg, occupies himself by researching a centuries-old royal mystery: whether King Richard III was truly guilty of the crimes long attributed to him.

In a living biotech port city, reformed thief Yat Jyn-Hok works night patrol while carrying the memories of a vanished lover and punishment for her sexuality. After being murdered by colleagues, she is resurrected by an ancient power that lets her manipulate life force.

A tightly plotted political thriller about a professional assassin hired by a dissident French paramilitary group to carry out a high-profile killing. The book sets up a procedural duel between the lone contractor's meticulous preparations and the official security forces racing to identify and stop him.

A critique of prevailing mid-20th-century urban planning that argues neighborhoods thrive when everyday street life, local commerce, and diverse uses are preserved.

A contemporary Gothic novel centered on an intimate domestic situation that becomes increasingly unsettling. The narrative sets up a close personal relationship under strain inside an enclosed setting, with mounting ambiguity about what is real and what may be psychological or supernatural.

A non-linear narrative pieces together the life and unexpected death of Vivek Oji, tracing childhood, family relationships, and the tensions around identity within a Nigerian setting.