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

A first-person account by Suleika Jaouad of surviving serious illness and the aftermath, tracking the author's time as a patient and the challenges of rebuilding life afterward. The book situates medical experience within social and psychological questions about identity, belonging, and self-recovery.

Set in a richly imagined fantasy world inspired by Indigenous mythic traditions, the novel focuses on an approaching solar eclipse that catalyzes political and prophetic forces.

A seasoned mechanic with a criminal past tries to keep his family and failing auto shop afloat by attempting one last heist; the job brings him back into violent, high-risk territory and forces urgent choices about loyalty, survival, and identity.

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 personal memoir about the author's relationship with her mother and how food—especially shopping and cooking at a Korean grocery—carries memory and cultural connection.

An exploration of fungi and their roles across ecosystems and human life, surveying fungal biology, ecological relationships, and practical implications.

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.

Lakewood focuses on a near-future or altered-present community shaped by medical research and its social consequences. The plot pressure arises from ethically fraught experiments and their effects on Black women and community trust.

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

A poet-turned-memoirist looks closely at the death of her mother and the aftermath for the daughter left to piece together memory, legal facts, and family history.

A young woman travels to a remote family estate after receiving a desperate letter from her cousin claiming danger in her marriage. She must probe the household’s strange customs and hidden histories to determine whether the threat is supernatural, social, or criminal.

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.

Two adults who already have a shared history confront a choice about whether to become a committed couple while juggling careers and family expectations.

A first-person journal from a man who calls himself Piranesi records life inside an apparently infinite House of halls, tides, statues, and changing seas.

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 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.

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 contemporary romantic comedy about a career-focused woman whose life collides with an imposing, protective man when circumstances push them into a flirtatious, increasingly intimate arrangement.

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.

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.

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

A meditation on eels that interweaves the species’ baffling lifecycle and scientific search with the author’s personal reflections. The book traces biological questions about migration and reproduction while using those puzzles as a lens for broader natural-history investigation and memoir-inflected curiosity.

Set in a historical social world, the novel focuses on women negotiating marriage, reputation, and intimacy within strict social codes. The central pressure comes from private desires and social constraint: a developing romantic relationship unfolds through constrained public behavior and more candid private exchanges.

Six individuals across New York awaken as living embodiments of the city’s boroughs while a hostile, otherworldly force threatens the metropolis.

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.

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 scientist who researches human cloning discovers her husband has used her work to create an identical partner.

A cleric from a monastery visits an abandoned imperial palace shortly after an empress's death and listens as the empress's former servant recounts the ruler's life.

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 West African–inspired YA fantasy about a sixteen-year-old girl who fails a compulsory purity rite and is declared impure when she bleeds gold.

A largely domestic story turns uncanny when a portal appears in or near a museum-adjacent setting, leading the female protagonist into an alternate dimension populated by monsters and strange landscapes.

A carefully constructed murder puzzle set in a historical Japanese milieu where an isolated crime—framed as a locked-room or closed-circle case—forces a methodical investigation. The central pressure is discovering how the murders were carried out and which suspect within a limited group is responsible.

Two women’s lives intersect around a risky decision to assume another identity, and that choice sets off a chain of deception, pursuit, and moral reckoning. The immediate pressure is whether the protagonist can keep the assumed life intact while past secrets close in, with consequences for friendship and survival.

Set in the near future, the novel traces efforts around an institutional body created under international agreements whose mandate is to secure the rights of future generations.

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

Set in a near-future world where crossing between parallel Earths is technologically possible but limited, the plot follows a protagonist who can travel because most of their alternate selves have died.

A contemporary mystery shaped by a group of older neighbors who meet regularly and become involved in solving a local murder. The setup follows their informal investigations and interpersonal exchanges as they piece together clues and test suspects, with the crime driving social interaction and group dynamics.

A teenage temple girl destined for ritual sacrifice is rescued by a traveling wizard and becomes his apprentice and covert operative. Trained as an assassin and charged with locating a lost artifact, she confronts shifting loyalties when she meets a young mage who complicates her attachments and mission.

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.

Carolina Santos, a wedding coordinator who was left at the altar, gets a career-making assignment three years later and must collaborate with Max Hartwell, the brother of her ex-fiancé.

A multi-generational memoir tracing Sarah M. Broom's family and the life of their home in New Orleans East, culminating in the loss of that house after Hurricane Katrina.

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

Lulu Miller interweaves a personal memoir about grief and depression with the life and work of 19th-century fish taxonomist David Starr Jordan to probe how humans try to impose order on a chaotic world.

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.

Set in an alternate-history Cairo where magic and modern technology coexist, a police-style investigation into a ritualistic murder exposes hidden conspiracies tied to alchemy and secret societies.

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.

A contemporary romance centered on Eve Brown, a high-energy, impulsive woman whose chaotic choices collide with a more controlled partner.