A retired art professor and collector secretly works as a professional assassin. He is pulled back into service to avenge the murder of an American agent, a mission that entwines high-altitude mountaineering with clandestine espionage and a fixation on art objects.

Set across the span of a single year, the novel follows multiple interlinked characters and institutions as environmental degradation and pollution escalate in the United States.

Joanna Eberhart, a photographer and new mother, notices that the wives in her suburban Connecticut community are becoming unnaturally compliant and domestic.

A grandmother, her six-year-old granddaughter Sophia, and the child's father spend a summer on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland as the family lives with the recent death of the mother.

On a forested alien world, an occupying human logging colony treats the native population as subjugated labor. Tensions escalate after an especially brutal crime, and a native leader mobilizes resistance against the colonists.

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.

Four investigators — a parapsychology-minded scientist, his wife, and two mediums — spend a week inside the most notorious haunted house to test whether life after death or malignant forces linger there.

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

A tightly plotted political thriller about a professional assassin hired by a dissident French paramilitary group to carry out a high-profile killing. The book sets up a procedural duel between the lone contractor's meticulous preparations and the official security forces racing to identify and stop him.