An Indian boy named Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel survives a long sea voyage after a shipwreck and is forced to share a lifeboat with zoo animals, most notably a Bengal tiger.

A group of university students visits a remote island that was the scene of a gruesome mass killing months earlier; once there, ominous events begin and a sequence of murders unfolds within the isolated setting.

An editorial assistant who has been the only Black employee at a New York publishing house faces a change when another Black woman is hired.

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.

An autobiographical account by Zora Neale Hurston that traces episodes from her life, mixing personal memory with material drawn from folklore and the social customs of Black communities.

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.