A small ensemble of visitors gather at a large, notorious house where unsettling occurrences and interpersonal fractures intensify around the building itself.

Set in the Chicken Hill neighborhood of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, during the 1920s and 1930s, the novel follows the intersecting lives of Black and Jewish residents centered around a neighborhood grocery.

A largely domestic story turns uncanny when a portal appears in or near a museum-adjacent setting, leading the female protagonist into an alternate dimension populated by monsters and strange landscapes.

A carefully constructed murder puzzle set in a historical Japanese milieu where an isolated crime—framed as a locked-room or closed-circle case—forces a methodical investigation. The central pressure is discovering how the murders were carried out and which suspect within a limited group is responsible.

Set around a criminal investigation, the novel focuses on a case that raises questions about identity and culpability when the accused exhibits signs of multiple personality or severe mental disturbance.

A middle-aged woman in an affluent Atlanta suburb watches a striking modern house built next door and becomes convinced something malevolent resides within it.

A woman embedded in high society navigates the pressures of reputation, money, and marriage as private desires and public judgment intersect. The immediate pressure is how social expectations and limited economic choices shape personal decisions and lead to moral and material consequences.

Spanning several generations of a single family, the book traces how private lives, inherited memories, and supernatural intimations intersect with broader political upheaval. The central pressure comes from how family loyalties and personal histories respond to changing social orders and accumulating loss.

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.

A fictional reimagining of a doomed overland expedition in the 19th-century American West that places characters under escalating scarcity and suspicion.

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.

A contemporary romantic comedy that follows characters navigating a close, deliberately intimate arrangement while dealing with personal boundaries, career questions, and the messy consequences of getting emotionally involved.

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.

A mid-20th-century espionage thriller centered on an intelligence investigator drawn into a baffling missing-persons and brainwashing case. The plot pressure comes from unraveling institutional secrecy and technical clues inside an atmosphere of Cold War suspicion.

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.

A linked set of personal vignettes about Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters, arranged in distinct sections that echo a mahjong game's structure.

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.

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.

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.

A historical retelling of the early life of Theseus that frames mythic episodes as the development of a young man into political and social adulthood. The narrative traces his movement across Greek communities and into Crete, depicting ritual contests, sea travel, and clashes between differing social systems.

A contemporary romance about a woman on the autism spectrum who decides to hire an escort to learn how to be intimate and comfortable in romantic and sexual situations.

Set in antebellum Virginia, the novel tracks interconnected lives in a county shaped by slavery and unexpected ownership dynamics, including Black Americans who themselves become slaveholders.

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.

Two women’s lives intersect around a risky decision to assume another identity, and that choice sets off a chain of deception, pursuit, and moral reckoning. The immediate pressure is whether the protagonist can keep the assumed life intact while past secrets close in, with consequences for friendship and survival.