A Wizard of Earthsea follows Ged, a gifted youth from the island of Gont, whose early talent leads him to a school of wizardry. After a duel goes wrong and releases a dangerous shadow, he must leave home and undertake a solitary quest to confront and undo the harm he caused.

A firsthand memoir of growing up Black and poor in mid-20th-century rural Mississippi, following the author's life from childhood into her twenties.

A near-future world strained by extreme population growth and dense social systems, presented through interconnected vignettes, reportage-like inserts, and character strands.

A single unicorn, convinced she is the last of her kind, leaves the safety of the forest to discover what happened to other unicorns.

A multi-generational saga centered on a single family and the town they founded, tracking births, deaths, loves, and obsessions across decades.

Set during an interstellar war, a poet-linguist is recruited to decipher an enemy language—Babel-17—that appears linked to acts of sabotage. The central pressure is linguistic: does learning or speaking a language alter perception and agency, and can decoding or revising that language stop further attacks?

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 long-form nonfiction account of the 1959 murders of a farming family in rural Kansas and the investigation that followed. The work follows the discovery of the crime, the police inquiry, interviews with townspeople and suspects, and the eventual identification, trial, and punishment of the perpetrators.

A restrained literary novel tracing the life and career of William Stoner, an English professor who discovers a devotion to literature and then navigates classroom politics, a troubled marriage, and a consequential affair.