A specialist reaches an isolated planet where a virus has wiped out most men and reshaped society; she must learn local ways of living and reckon with a community rebuilt around different social norms.

Set in a near-future America broken by economic collapse, climate effects, and violence, the novel follows Lauren Olamina, a young woman who records her experiences and develops a practical belief system called Earthseed.

A man with a troubled past relocates with his children to his ancestral home in coastal Newfoundland and starts anew while working for the local newspaper.

An anonymous group of neighborhood boys recall and try to explain the lives and deaths of five Lisbon sisters in a 1970s Midwestern suburb. The account pieces together small scenes, neighborhood detail, and collective memory to track how ordinary suburban rhythms intersect with profound loss.

Lucy Grealy recounts her life before and after a childhood diagnosis of Ewing's sarcoma, describing the medical treatments that altered her face and the social and emotional consequences that followed.

A coded plea from deep inside frozen Russia summons a linguistically gifted outsider to infiltrate a secret research installation.

In a near-future United States where virtual reality and neural implants shape online life, former underground hacker India Carless (Trouble) reunites with her ex-lover to confront someone impersonating her identity in cyberspace.

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.

Mary Karr recounts her 1960s childhood in a small industrial town in Southeast Texas, centered on a troubled family life and the group of men her father called the Liars' Club.