A non-linear narrative pieces together the life and unexpected death of Vivek Oji, tracing childhood, family relationships, and the tensions around identity within a Nigerian setting.

A contemporary romance that follows Feyi Adekola, a Nigerian American visual artist, as she navigates life after the traumatic loss of her partner and opens — cautiously and imperfectly — to new love. The novel focuses on personal healing, creative work, and the delicate boundaries between grief and desire.

Two women at different emotional crossroads navigate a rekindled connection while negotiating family obligations and personal growth. The book frames romantic possibility alongside sibling relationships and identity questions, with astrological interest present as a recurring motif rather than a plot mechanic.

Luc O'Donnell, the son of famous 1980s rock stars, faces renewed public scrutiny when his parents' spotlight returns; to repair his image he agrees to a staged relationship with Oliver Blackwood, a principled barrister.

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.

Two adults form a romantic connection within a contemporary setting while each navigates emotional wounds and mental-health challenges. The book follows the development of attraction and trust as characters confront past trauma, seek stability, and test whether new intimacy can coexist with ongoing recovery.

Three sisters in an alternative-historical United States confront the erasure of witchcraft and seek to revive magical practices as a form of political and personal reclamation.

A near-future romance about a protagonist whose life intersects with an artificial intelligence; the central pressure comes from navigating attraction, personal safety, and ethical uncertainty in a world where intimate tech complicates consent and trust.

A woman who works as a local tour guide becomes alarmed by disappearances and unsettling changes in her Brooklyn neighborhood and starts investigating.

A contemporary, character-focused novel centered on characters navigating fraught private relationships and ethical pressure in an American setting. The narrative opens from intimate vantage points and builds tension through choices, secrets, and the slow widening of consequences rather than by external action.

A fantasy set across a floating-archipelago empire where bone shard magic powers constructs and enforces imperial control.

Set in a rural Southern backwater, the novel follows Miranda Crabtree, who runs contraband for a local preacher-sheriff to survive and to protect an old woman and a child who fled his home years earlier. Miranda faces escalating danger when she’s asked to make one last, fraught delivery involving that same preacher.

An astronaut wakes with amnesia aboard a stranded spacecraft and must piece together who he is and why he's on a one-way mission to avert an extinction-level threat to Earth.

A guarded hiker, Alexei Lebedev, sets out on the Pacific Crest Trail expecting solitude but repeatedly crosses paths with outgoing fellow hiker Ben Caravalho.

A mother narrates her struggle with fear and suspicion about her child and her own capacity to parent, with rising suspicion and consequences that test family bonds. The setup focuses on maternal doubt and the social and personal fallout of mistrust within a family unit.

A first-person memoir that follows the author's experience growing up as the child of an incarcerated parent and the personal consequences that unfolded in family life, identity, and adulthood. The book situates intimate recollection alongside social context to reckon with shame, longing, and the search for belonging.

A contemporary romance centered on a queer woman navigating a return to—or life within—a small-community context while forming a romantic and sexual relationship that forces emotional reckonings.

On a world where robots abandoned human settlements long ago, a traveling tea-maker meets a robot who has returned and seeks to understand human purpose. Their low-stakes dialogue and small, everyday interactions become the site for questions about work, meaning, and how people live now that high technology is gone.

Set among college students, the novel follows a young woman navigating romantic choices and the pressures of attraction, commitment, and reputation. Social life, flirtation, and the consequences of dating decisions create the central interpersonal tension that drives scenes and character decisions.

Set in 1960s Southern California, the novel follows Elizabeth Zott, a trained chemist who, after being fired from her lab, becomes the host of a popular television cooking show.

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 twin sisters from the same small town take divergent paths—one remaining close to home, the other leaving and living under a different racial identity—and the novel follows how that split shapes their lives, their families, and the next generation across decades.

An adult soldier who was taken as a child from a colonized land serves in the empire's army and must navigate divided loyalties when ordered back to their homeland. The central pressure is the clash between duty to an occupying power and ties to a suppressed culture that practices outlawed religion and magic.

A contemporary Gothic novel centered on an intimate domestic situation that becomes increasingly unsettling. The narrative sets up a close personal relationship under strain inside an enclosed setting, with mounting ambiguity about what is real and what may be psychological or supernatural.

Set around a single house that becomes the locus of strange occurrences, the book follows characters drawn into unexplained phenomena and the effort to understand what’s happening.

A twenty-something New Yorker notices an arresting woman on the subway who turns out to be mysteriously stuck out of her original era.

Set in Georgian England, Marian Hayes flees London after shooting her abusive husband and falls into an uneasy alliance with Rob Brooks, a cheerful highwayman and con man who has blackmailed her.

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.

Set in late-1950s New York, the story follows Nick Russo, a reporter who has risen from a tough Brooklyn background and must keep his sexuality secret in a hostile era.

A linked essay collection blending memoir and criticism in which the author uses personal anecdotes, cultural analysis, and literary reflection to name and look closely at 'minor feelings'—ambivalent, often-dismissed emotions that arise from living as an Asian American in the United States.

A compact, tense novel set around a single household where strange omissions and unsettling behaviors create a mystery of who can be trusted. Multiple perspectives and withheld information generate pressure: secrets accumulate inside the house while outside facts remain uncertain.

A speculative rupture reshapes a community and forces characters to make urgent ethical and practical decisions as they adapt.

A formally inventive novel that stages an Asian American life through the language and beats of television scripts, focusing on how roles and stereotypes shape a character’s ambitions and relations.

A mythic quest grounded in retold folktales: characters pursue a dangerous treasure tied to legends and magical creatures, with the search itself creating the central pressure. The story frames action and danger through folkloric motifs and encounters with dragons and other mythic beings, driving both plot and stakes.

A contemporary American family becomes entangled with unexplained, possibly supernatural occurrences that surface long-buried trauma and danger. The story places intimate domestic fractures next to uncanny events, creating a pressure between ordinary family life and escalating, mysterious threat.

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.

A historical-set romance that places a fraught courtship at its center: two people navigate attraction, social expectations, and competing moral claims while their choices carry consequences for reputation and future security.

Chloe Fong is organized, pragmatic, and unwilling to tolerate nonsense; her childhood sweetheart vanished after promising to be serious. Years later Jeremy Wentworth returns—now the Duke of Lansing—hoping to win Chloe back while concealing his title and the fact that he owns the village where she lives.

A multi-century, character-focused account of a single house in New England and the people who inhabit, alter, and imagine it over time. The book traces lives and local change through episodes anchored to the house, using domestic objects and family relationships to show historical shifts and personal consequences.

A group of older, formerly professional killers—now ostensibly retired—are pulled into a dangerous sequence of events when a job and its fallout force them to act. The book follows their attempts to manage threats, reckon with past choices, and protect one another while outside forces close in.

A guided tour of nonhuman perception: the book documents how different animals experience the world through vision, smell, hearing, electroreception and other senses, and shows how those sensory systems reveal distinct "realms".

A small collective of guerilla gardeners called Birnam Wood accepts backing from a charismatic tech billionaire to undertake a project on neglected farmland.

Two authors with opposing careers—one a bestselling romance writer, the other a literary novelist—reconnect while staying in the same beach house.

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

An elite human soldier raised in an isolated outpost sets out believing Earth was destroyed by an external enemy; as she pursues vengeance, she discovers that the story she's been taught about Earth's fate is misleading and must decide what to do with that new truth.

Set within a historical/regency-style romance series, the book follows a gentle courtship underpinned by family ties and personal growth. Central pressure comes from social expectations and the slow unfolding of attraction between the leads amid the routines and obligations of family life.

A determined investigator reopens a dangerous case tied to recent political violence and personal loss, tracing clues that connect domestic life to wider conflict. The book follows her efforts to untangle family grief and a history of unrest while someone with violent intent may still be at large.

A working-class father faces desperate circumstances after his young daughter's illness and loss of income, and accepts work from a former colleague in the criminal underworld.

Two longtime friends reconnect and build a successful video game company together, navigating creative disagreements, business pressures, and personal histories. The story follows their partnership across years as careers, fame, and private wounds test loyalty and shared invention.