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

A near-future urban world where immersive virtual systems, media feeds, and software-hacking reshape identity and embodiment.

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.

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.

A scientist's wide-angle account of how species have originated, diversified, and occupied Earth’s ecosystems, paired with a diagnosis of contemporary biodiversity decline.

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 rural community is shattered by a violent incursion, pushing a group of young people onto the road under urgent threat. They become caught in a wider struggle involving an articulated system of magic, looming malevolent forces, and competing powers.

A nonlinear novel centered on fraternal twins whose childhood in a small Kerala town is shaped by family tensions, the arrival of an outsider cousin, and a social order marked by caste and colonial legacies.

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.