A historical-set romance that places a fraught courtship at its center: two people navigate attraction, social expectations, and competing moral claims while their choices carry consequences for reputation and future security.

Set in Regency-era society, the novel follows Minerva Lane, a woman who has assumed a low profile after a past scandal, and Robert Blaisdell, the Duke of Clermont, who is intent on exposing her.

Chloe Fong is organized, pragmatic, and unwilling to tolerate nonsense; her childhood sweetheart vanished after promising to be serious. Years later Jeremy Wentworth returns—now the Duke of Lansing—hoping to win Chloe back while concealing his title and the fact that he owns the village where she lives.

Set in a near future where disease is mostly cured, a woman given a terminal diagnosis becomes the object of a reality program that wants to televise her final days. She resists being packaged for entertainment, unaware that a reporter bearing covert cameras is recording her without consent.

A Cup of Water Under My Bed is a memoir in linked essays about growing up Colombian–Cuban in a working-class immigrant family.

A man with intellectual disability undergoes an experimental medical procedure intended to raise his intelligence, and the narrative records the aftermath through dated personal entries.

A multi-century, character-focused account of a single house in New England and the people who inhabit, alter, and imagine it over time. The book traces lives and local change through episodes anchored to the house, using domestic objects and family relationships to show historical shifts and personal consequences.

An unnamed young woman marries a wealthy widower and moves to his grand West Country estate, where she finds the household dominated by the presence and legend of his late first wife.

A San Francisco private detective becomes tangled in a case that hinges on a coveted object and a series of killings. The narrative presents events from an external third-person viewpoint—reporting only actions, dialogue, and appearances—so the mystery and shifting loyalties carry the dramatic weight.

A yearlong, site-specific study of a single patch of old-growth forest: the author records regular close observations across seasons and links those moments to ecological facts and reflective thought.

Six distinct narratives, each written in a different voice and set in a different time and place, are arranged so that echoes between them imply moral and causal connections across eras.

A narrative investigation into how animal infections jump into humans and create new epidemics, built from scientific case studies, interviews with researchers, and on-the-ground reportage.

A long-form investigation into how island size, isolation, and landscape change shape species distributions and drive extinctions.

A data-driven account of how rising global temperatures could reshape life on Earth, surveying a range of warming scenarios and their likely consequences across environments, health, food systems, and geopolitics.

A group of older, formerly professional killers—now ostensibly retired—are pulled into a dangerous sequence of events when a job and its fallout force them to act. The book follows their attempts to manage threats, reckon with past choices, and protect one another while outside forces close in.

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 U.S. Marshal travels to a remote island hospital for the criminally insane to investigate the disappearance of a patient who is also a serial killer.

An academic family in the American Midwest navigates everyday routines, consumer culture, and family dynamics while an external technological/industrial threat forces questions about death, risk, and how people manage fear.

A sprawling crime thriller that follows characters entangled in the international drug trade and the institutions that pursue or abet it.

Set at a small, elite liberal-arts college, the novel follows a tight group of Classics students whose scholarly intensity and social isolation lead to a violent rupture.

Told from the viewpoint of a returning World War II veteran, the novel follows his arrival in Los Angeles and the tense relationships he forms there while an external string of murders and police investigation encircle him.

A woman linked to an academic community returns to a college where puzzling acts and a climate of fear have erupted; an investigator connected to her seeks to discover who is behind the incidents and why.

Set in 1914 Boston, the novel follows Cleo Jericho Judson, a mixed‑race woman embedded in an upper‑middle‑class African‑American community, as she navigates choices about marriage, social position, and belonging.

Maurice follows a young man’s emotional and sexual development from school into adulthood in early 20th‑century England.

Set in a future where humans live isolated beneath a mechanical infrastructure, the story follows individuals who rely entirely on a pervasive Machine for daily needs and communication.

A guided tour of nonhuman perception: the book documents how different animals experience the world through vision, smell, hearing, electroreception and other senses, and shows how those sensory systems reveal distinct "realms".

Set in 1870s upper-class New York, the novel follows a man caught between an established engagement and an unexpected attraction that threatens his place within a rigid social world.

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.

An English academic with a penchant for puzzles becomes involved in a London mystery centered on a strange toyshop and a missing person. The setup puts a cerebral, amateur detective into a circle of eccentric characters and cryptic clues that require deduction and local knowledge to sort out.

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.

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.

A small collective of guerilla gardeners called Birnam Wood accepts backing from a charismatic tech billionaire to undertake a project on neglected farmland.

Set in New Zealand's South Island in 1866, the novel opens with a prospector who arrives on the West Coast goldfields and becomes entangled with a group of twelve local men and a string of unsolved crimes.

An author convalescing with a chronic illness observes and cares for a wild snail that becomes a daily companion. The book records close, patient attention to the snail’s behavior and anatomy while using that relationship to reflect on bodily experience, time, and recovery.

A compact English-set tale shaped by a disappearance and the effort to reconstruct what happened. The narrative assembles documents, testimony, and close third-person focus to press on how absence reshapes memory, suspicion, and local rumor.

Journalistic nonfiction that documents a contemporary, human-caused mass extinction by surveying past mass die-offs, profiling particular species losses, and reporting from scientific sites and researchers.

Four disparate Englishwomen arrange a month-long holiday at a sunlit Italian castle to escape damp London and the pressures of their social lives.

A first-person account by a clinician-scholar describing living with schizophrenia while pursuing an academic career. The book presents personal episodes of illness and recovery alongside reflections on diagnosis, treatment, and maintaining work in higher education.

Two authors with opposing careers—one a bestselling romance writer, the other a literary novelist—reconnect while staying in the same beach house.

Several loosely connected characters across different eras encounter anomalies that call into question the nature of reality, time, and memory.

Set before and after a fictional, devastating influenza pandemic, the book traces several connected people — including actors who tour small settlements — as they navigate loss, survival, and the persistence of art.

An elite human soldier raised in an isolated outpost sets out believing Earth was destroyed by an external enemy; as she pursues vengeance, she discovers that the story she's been taught about Earth's fate is misleading and must decide what to do with that new truth.

A professionally curious narrator pursues the life of a shadowy criminal figure across interwar European settings, following clues from travel and chance encounters to reconstruct motive and method.

Set within a historical/regency-style romance series, the book follows a gentle courtship underpinned by family ties and personal growth. Central pressure comes from social expectations and the slow unfolding of attraction between the leads amid the routines and obligations of family life.

A wandering, nocturnal circus full of impossible attractions serves as the stage for a concealed magical contest whose rules and contestants are revealed in fragments.

A Moveable Feast is Ernest Hemingway’s memoir of his years as a young expatriate writer in Paris during the 1920s. The book collects episodic recollections—personal scenes, interactions, and snapshots of everyday life—anchored around his marriage at the time and his early literary friendships and work habits.

A linked collection of personal essays in which the author describes living with schizophrenia and related diagnoses, linking firsthand memoir to discussion of clinical diagnosis, treatment, and the social realities of mental illness.

A determined investigator reopens a dangerous case tied to recent political violence and personal loss, tracing clues that connect domestic life to wider conflict. The book follows her efforts to untangle family grief and a history of unrest while someone with violent intent may still be at large.

A city divided by rival clans becomes the stage for a power struggle where jade — a material that grants enhanced combat abilities — is the source of status and strength. The plot focuses on inter-family rivalry, questions of duty and leadership, and the consequences of wielding a fought-over supernatural resource.