A mid-20th-century science-fiction novel that follows a determined protagonist caught in a personal quest for vengeance within a richly constructed twenty-fifth-century milieu.

Set in rural Georgia during the cotton/sharecropping era, the novel follows Grange Copeland and the consequences of his decisions across generations.

A linked collection of short stories that reimagines traditional fairy tales and folk tales by amplifying their latent, often unsettling elements.

A firsthand memoir of growing up Black and poor in mid-20th-century rural Mississippi, following the author's life from childhood into her twenties.

A middle-aged woman in an affluent Atlanta suburb watches a striking modern house built next door and becomes convinced something malevolent resides within it.

A book-length series of linked essays that record extended, close observations of the natural world around a creek and turn those observations into philosophical and lyrical reflections on life, perception, and the human place in nature.

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

An intimate retelling of the Cupid-and-Psyche myth presented as a long first-person accusation by Psyche’s elder sister, Orual. The narrator addresses her perceived wrongs and the gods while reconstructing family rivalries, love, and spiritual puzzlement within a primitive, Hellenistic-adjacent kingdom.

Set against the political tensions of the early 1960s, an American intelligence officer, Paul Christopher, investigates the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.