Carolina Santos, a wedding coordinator who was left at the altar, gets a career-making assignment three years later and must collaborate with Max Hartwell, the brother of her ex-fiancé.

Set in a near-future world where crossing between parallel Earths is technologically possible but limited, the plot follows a protagonist who can travel because most of their alternate selves have died.

A crime reporter becomes personally entangled when a close relative's death points to a pattern of murders; he pursues leads that connect newsroom sleuthing to federal investigations.

Set around a haunted house in a rural or small-town environment, the narrative tracks how ordinary family life and local routines come under threat from uncanny, element-linked forces.

Four very different people converge in an Italian villa during the later stages of World War II: a severely burned, anonymous patient; the Canadian nurse who tends him; a Sikh sapper; and a Canadian thief.

A character-driven reconstruction of the three days around the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, told through the perspectives of historical military figures from both the Union and the Confederacy.

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

A personal memoir about the author's relationship with her mother and how food—especially shopping and cooking at a Korean grocery—carries memory and cultural connection.

Set in a period social world where dressmaking, tailoring, and horsemanship matter to status and identity, the novel follows characters negotiating intimate relationships across racial lines and strict social codes.

Across the 20th century, a Korean family lives and works in Japan, confronting social exclusion, economic precarity, and the burdens of cultural displacement.

A contemporary coming-of-age romance about a Black woman navigating life after a major relationship and the pressures of adulthood. The novel follows her emotional recovery, shifting priorities, and evolving sense of self as she confronts family expectations, professional identity, and new romantic possibilities.

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

On a world made dangerous by recurring, civilization-shattering climate events called "Fifth Seasons," communities live under constant threat of seismic and social collapse.

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.

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.

Set in a near-future, economically collapsed Toronto, the novel follows characters navigating a city left to decay after officials abandon it.

A West African–inspired YA fantasy about a sixteen-year-old girl who fails a compulsory purity rite and is declared impure when she bleeds gold.

Set in an imagined America where the state offers convicted people a brutal alternative—participation in televised death matches run by the CAPE program—the novel follows top combatants whose lives and identities are shaped by that system.

A murder investigation unfolds within a Japanese American community where a sleuth—rooted in local knowledge and relationships—follows clues through neighborhood networks and historical threads. The central pressure is solving the crime while navigating social ties and community memory.

A poet-turned-memoirist looks closely at the death of her mother and the aftermath for the daughter left to piece together memory, legal facts, and family history.

An energetic near-future story that interleaves a fast-paced real-world plot with a pervasive virtual-reality environment and a memetic/linguistic threat.

Set in 1920s Harlem, the novel follows two childhood friends whose reunion stirs fascination, rivalry, and moral danger when one woman passes as white. The central pressure comes from competing desires for safety, social standing, and intimacy within racially fraught social circles.

Two royal twins with emergent magical abilities are sent away from their ruling parent and trained by a monastery; their powers and identities entangle them with wider political and social conflicts.

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.