A multi-generational memoir tracing Sarah M. Broom's family and the life of their home in New Orleans East, culminating in the loss of that house after Hurricane Katrina.

Set in early 20th-century Florida, the novel follows Janie Crawford as she moves from adolescence into adulthood and seeks a life where she can speak and act for herself. The core pressure is Janie's pursuit of emotional autonomy and self-definition within constrained social and gender roles.

A linked ensemble novel that follows multiple Native American characters living in and around Oakland who converge around a community powwow.

A first-person graphic memoir recounting George Takei's childhood experiences during the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II. The book focuses on family life inside the camps and traces how those early events shaped the author's later path in theater and public life.

Set in late-colonial Nigeria, the novel follows Okonkwo, a powerful member of an Igbo clan, as local customs and personal codes confront outside forces and new beliefs.

Two rival temporal agents working for opposing, mutually exclusive timelines exchange secret letters as they sabotage history on behalf of their employers.

A psychological horror novel about a recently bereaved man living with smart, networked elements in his home that complicate — and possibly intrude upon — his mourning.

An intimate retelling of the Cupid-and-Psyche myth presented as a long first-person accusation by Psyche’s elder sister, Orual. The narrator addresses her perceived wrongs and the gods while reconstructing family rivalries, love, and spiritual puzzlement within a primitive, Hellenistic-adjacent kingdom.

Two longtime friends reconnect and build a successful video game company together, navigating creative disagreements, business pressures, and personal histories. The story follows their partnership across years as careers, fame, and private wounds test loyalty and shared invention.

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.

Presented through a collage of documents, memoir excerpts, and alternate accounts, the novel orients on a secretive, immensely wealthy financier and the contested stories about him and his wife.

A sequence of exploratory trips beneath landscapes — caves, catacombs, glacial moulins and other underground sites — that probe how subterranean spaces hold memory, burial, and signs of human activity across deep time.

Set in England in 1818, the story follows Venetia Lanyon, a young woman raised in sheltered country seclusion, whose quiet life is disrupted when a rakish neighbor forms an unexpected friendship with her handicapped younger brother and draws Venetia into closer contact.

Set in a near-future speculative scenario, the novel follows people living under acute strain from changing social orders and gendered power dynamics. The immediate pressure comes from desperate survival choices and fraught relationships between men and women living within constrained, dangerous circumstances.

A compact nonfiction work that analyzes how images are seen and understood, arguing that social context and ideology shape visual meaning. It presents short, illustrated meditations and concrete image readings to show how advertising, reproduction, and historical habits influence perception and value judgments in art.

Set in late-1950s New York, the story follows Nick Russo, a reporter who has risen from a tough Brooklyn background and must keep his sexuality secret in a hostile era.

An eighteen-year-old narrator lives with her agoraphobic sister and ailing uncle in an isolated family home long shunned by their village after a past tragedy. The novel records how the household maintains rituals and defenses while outside hostility and the characters’ secrets exert pressure on daily life.

A small, stranded community faces a dire survival problem and must decide how to preserve life when resources and choices are scarce. The book stages debates, factions, and a mounting moral pressure as the group confronts whether and how to continue as a social unit under extreme conditions.

A first-person memoir of growing up and working in colonial East Africa, told through episodic accounts of life on farms, training racehorses, and learning to fly.

A modern horror novella that reworks Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher: a retired soldier returns to an isolated ancestral house after learning a childhood friend is gravely ill, and finds the estate, its inhabitants, and the landscape corrupted by decay and strange forces.

A neurosurgeon and writer confronts a diagnosis of advanced lung cancer and records the transition from clinician to patient. The book links scenes from medical training and surgical practice to reflections on meaning, identity, and what makes life worth living when time is suddenly limited.

A woman who works as a local tour guide becomes alarmed by disappearances and unsettling changes in her Brooklyn neighborhood and starts investigating.

A young girl grows up isolated in the North Carolina marshes, learning to survive and understand the natural world while cut off from the nearby town. Decades-spanning timelines converge when a local man's death prompts an investigation that intersects with the girl's life and reputation.

A house in England exerts an active, hostile presence while a young twin, Miranda, contends with family loss and an ambiguous relationship to the dwelling. The novel combines ghostly and vampire-inflected elements to stage domestic dread and inheritance as intimate, supernatural pressure.