A first-person memoir about growing up Black and queer in rural Ohio, charting the author's struggles with family conflict, physical violence, and the search for an affirmed sense of manhood.

Two aging ex-con fathers unite after their sons — a married interracial couple — are murdered, and they set out to find the killers. The immediate pressure is violent revenge complicated by grief, entrenched prejudices, and the challenge of protecting the son's infant.

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.

Set on a future Mars, the story follows a lowborn miner who infiltrates the ranks of the ruling elite by assuming a false identity.

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

A contemporary romantic novel about the fraught, evolving relationship between the U.S. president’s son and a British prince, starting from mutual dislike and escalating into a secret and then public romance.

Janet Mock recounts her path to womanhood from childhood through young adulthood, focusing on the realities of growing up transgender and multiracial in Hawaii and negotiating family, community, and medical systems.

A contemporary novel shaped like a folktale in which a young woman and those around her navigate consequences after a theft and encounters with trickster spirits. The setup focuses on moral complications inside domestic relationships and the social effects of magic on everyday life.

Set during the First World War, the novel follows officers treated for shell shock at a military psychiatric hospital. The plot focuses on their therapy, conversations, and struggles to reconcile wartime experiences with civilian identities while clinicians and fellow patients negotiate guilt, duty, and recovery.

A gigantic cylindrical alien spacecraft enters the Solar System in the 2130s and a human exploration team intercepts it to investigate.

Set in an alternate 1920s American South, the novella follows Maryse Boudreaux and other Black women hunters as a rising supernatural evil—manifestations tied to the Ku Klux Klan—threatens their community.

A solitary, resourceful man becomes both would-be assassin and hunted prey after attempting to kill a powerful foreign figure.

A contemporary romantic comedy about Rosaline Palmer navigating personal and professional pressures while a central relationship develops under awkward, domestic conditions. The setup emphasizes character interactions, social embarrassment, and decisions about work, family, and love rather than epic plot twists.

Set in a near-future Nigeria after an alien presence appears, the novel follows a Nigerian agent who can access a shared alien-linked information network through nervous-system-affecting fungal growths.

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

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

A group of human colonists settles on a newly reached planet and must build lives amid an ecosystem whose dominant intelligences are sentient plants.

Two former lovers encounter one another again years after a painful breakup while each is living complicated adult lives — including parenthood and professional pressures — and must navigate whether a revived connection can fit into their current responsibilities and identities.

A father with a criminal past confronts an urgent family crisis involving his daughter and choices that threaten to undo both their lives. The setup focuses on parental responsibility, the consequences of past crimes, and a high-stakes situation that forces the protagonist to weigh loyalty, protection, and legal peril.

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.

A linked-memoir of personal essays in which the author recounts growing up Vietnamese American, arriving as a refugee, and navigating family, race, and literary ambitions.

A scientific investigation and public argument about the ecological and human harms of widespread synthetic pesticide use, with sustained attention to DDT.

Billy Pilgrim, an American who served in World War II, experiences a fractured relationship with time after the war. The novel follows episodes of his life — including his capture and survival of the Allied firebombing of Dresden — presented out of chronological order.

Set in a recent historical past, the story focuses on a coal-merchant and shopkeeper whose ordinary routines are interrupted when he encounters evidence of suffering connected to a local institution.