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.

A series of personal essays by George M. Johnson that trace growing up as a Black queer youth in the U.S., linking autobiographical scenes to direct address to younger Black queer readers.

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".

Mackenzie, a Cree woman, copes with the aftermath of family deaths while her nightmares begin to leave physical traces in waking life.

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 memoir by Qian Julie Wang about arriving in the United States as a child with her parents and living undocumented. The narrative follows her family's struggle with poverty, precarious work, and the constant fear and limitations that come with noncitizen status.

A contemporary romance centered on a married couple whose relationship is strained by loss and psychological pressure. The story follows their attempts to navigate grief, miscommunication, and the decision points that will determine whether the marriage endures or falls apart.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 contemporary story about witches and everyday life that places supernatural elements inside familiar social settings. The central pressure comes from a character's collision with witchcraft and its consequences for relationships, reputation, and safety within a community.

Set in an imagined America where the state offers convicted people a brutal alternative—participation in televised death matches run by the CAPE program—the novel follows top combatants whose lives and identities are shaped by that system.

A murder investigation unfolds within a Japanese American community where a sleuth—rooted in local knowledge and relationships—follows clues through neighborhood networks and historical threads. The central pressure is solving the crime while navigating social ties and community memory.

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.

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.

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

Suzanne Simard recounts her career as a forest ecologist and presents her research showing that trees connect and exchange resources through fungal mycelial networks.

Godkiller is a 2023 fantasy novel by Hannah Kaner that focuses on friendships tested within an adventurous, high-stakes conflict. The setup orients around a group relationship dynamic driving a dangerous mission or confrontation, with emotional loyalty and survival pressure forming the central tension.

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.

A contemporary coming-of-age romance about a Black woman navigating life after a major relationship and the pressures of adulthood. The novel follows her emotional recovery, shifting priorities, and evolving sense of self as she confronts family expectations, professional identity, and new romantic possibilities.

After their parents die suddenly, a sister returns to handle estate matters and clashes with her estranged brother over how to dispose of the family home and belongings. Tensions among extended relatives, funeral choices, and the decision to clear out the house collide with uncanny occurrences tied to the property.

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 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.

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.

In an isolated northern chateau, a baron’s doctor dies under suspicious circumstances and the Interprovincial Medical Institute sends a replacement. The Institute is revealed to have colonized physicians' minds across generations while tending the remnants of humanity.

An orc ex-adventurer decides to leave life as a mercenary to open a coffee shop. The novel follows the practical challenges of creating a shop—menu, customers, staff—and the quieter pressure of remaking identity and relationships in a new, ordinary routine.

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 2023 historical novel that places a lone woman into a Western-era community where past traumas and local mysteries collide with uncanny phenomena. The book sets up a central pressure: an outsider's efforts to survive and make a home amid suspicion, danger, and signs that something otherworldly may be at work.

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.

Monstrilio collects fiction that links magical-realism logic to elements of horror and fantasy, placing queer experience and desire at its center.

Set in a future where living form is determined by exchangeable cellular units called cytes and by unstable morphotypes rather than fixed DNA, the novel follows people whose bodies and identities are socially and medically negotiable.

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

A married lesbian couple becomes emotionally distant after one partner returns from a disastrous deep-sea dive. The novel tracks the aftermath: attempts at reconnection, the survivor’s altered presence, and the slow accumulation of dread tied to the sea and loss.

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.

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 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.

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 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.