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.

A collection of interlinked short stories drawn from Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War experience, following a platoon of American soldiers. Each chapter focuses on material items, personal recollections, or specific incidents that reveal how memory, fear, and obligation shape their daily lives and relationships.

Set in 1914 Boston, the novel follows Cleo Jericho Judson, a mixed‑race woman embedded in an upper‑middle‑class African‑American community, as she navigates choices about marriage, social position, and belonging.

Set in a period social world where dressmaking, tailoring, and horsemanship matter to status and identity, the novel follows characters negotiating intimate relationships across racial lines and strict social codes.

A recently bereaved woman moves into a large London house to escape her marriage and start over, but strange occurrences and a séance convince her that the house may be haunted.

Set in 1870s upper-class New York, the novel follows a man caught between an established engagement and an unexpected attraction that threatens his place within a rigid social world.

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.

Sarah Crowe moves from Atlanta to an old rural Rhode Island house and finds an unfinished manuscript left by a former tenant — a parapsychologist fixated on an ancient oak on the property.

An elderly Congregational minister composes an extended letter to his young son late in life, recounting his own family history, the tensions between pacifism and militant abolitionism in his forebears, and the spiritual convictions that shape his sense of duty and affection.

An unnamed Black narrator recounts his journey through segregated American life, encountering institutions, movements, and people that test his sense of self.

A first-person memoir about a First Nation woman's passage through a troubled childhood, early and fraught motherhood, and ongoing struggles with mental health and identity. The narrative pieces together memory, family history, and personal reflection to show how past trauma informs present life and relationships.

Set in a past-leaning period context, the novel follows the developing relationship between two men whose attraction grows through social encounters, conversation, and constrained opportunities for openness.

Blanche on the Lam introduces Blanche White, an African-American domestic worker who becomes entangled in a criminal accusation and then in solving mysteries around her.

A compact English-set tale shaped by a disappearance and the effort to reconstruct what happened. The narrative assembles documents, testimony, and close third-person focus to press on how absence reshapes memory, suspicion, and local rumor.

A firsthand account of encounters with octopuses that uses field observation and scientific context to investigate octopus behavior and signs of consciousness. The book links specific animal interactions to accessible explanations from marine biology to consider how octopuses think, sense, and relate to humans.

Set in the 1920s, the novel follows a young woman whose life becomes entangled with Maya gods and a mythic journey. A relationship with a divinity prompts a quest and confrontations with death and fate, folding Mexican fable elements into a period social world.

A Philadelphia patrol officer working in a struggling neighborhood pursues a string of murders while also searching for her own missing sister.

A young woman with a disputed claim to a ruling house is summoned to the capital to contend for a throne and to answer dangerous questions about her lineage.

Three extended nonfiction essays look closely at distinct episodes where people tried to redirect, constrain, or rebuild around powerful natural forces: efforts on a major river system, responses to a volcanic eruption, and work against mountain debris flows.

A literary fantasy that situates several women’s lives inside a shared historical and cultural landscape, using personal narratives and communal memory to trace how past events shape identity and responsibility.

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

Set during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the novel stages the prolonged siege of a fictional Indian town and follows the British residents who must endure shortages, disease risk, and the breakdown of familiar authority.

A first-person memoir of growing up and working in colonial East Africa, told through episodic accounts of life on farms, training racehorses, and learning to fly.

A first-person memoir by Chanel Miller recounting her sexual assault at Stanford in 2015 and the consequences that followed, including the legal case People v. Turner. The book traces the personal aftermath, public attention, and interactions with the justice system as the author reclaims voice and identity.