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 first-person account by a British journalist in 1950s Vietnam focuses on his entanglement with an earnest young American and a Vietnamese woman, set against the collapse of French colonial rule and the rise of early U.S. involvement.

An espionage thriller centered on a woman trained by Russian intelligence to use seduction and deception as tools of recruitment and infiltration.

A tightly focused, first-person account centered on a Black working-class family in Mississippi as they prepare for and endure Hurricane Katrina.

A first-person account of growing up between Chinese folktales and American life, where family history and mythic stories intertwine with recollections of childhood.

A book-length series of linked essays that record extended, close observations of the natural world around a creek and turn those observations into philosophical and lyrical reflections on life, perception, and the human place in nature.

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 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.

After returning to her birth country from the United States, a recent graduate begins receiving the voice of her dead grandmother—a former medium tied to a local deity.