A linked set of personal vignettes about Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters, arranged in distinct sections that echo a mahjong game's structure.

A first-person account by an English butler who undertakes a road trip and uses the journey to recall years of service at a great house. The narrator reconstructs past events and relationships while confronting what his lifelong commitment to duty has cost him.

Jill Ker Conway recounts her childhood on a vast sheep station in western New South Wales and the disruptions—most notably drought and her father's death—that forced her family to leave for Sydney.

Set after the American Civil War, the novel focuses on a formerly enslaved woman who lives in Cincinnati and must confront a violent past that continues to intrude on daily life.

A human protagonist awakens into an altered world after a cataclysm and must confront external caretakers whose technological and biological interventions raise urgent moral questions.

A group of university students visits a remote island that was the scene of a gruesome mass killing months earlier; once there, ominous events begin and a sequence of murders unfolds within the isolated setting.

Set in a near-future theocratic state, the narrative follows a woman assigned to a mandated reproductive role within tightly policed households.

Set in a future US where women's civil rights have been revoked, a group of female linguists—trained as interstellar translators—create a new language for women as a deliberate form of resistance.

Set in a near-future urban milieu, the story follows a drug-damaged computer hacker recruited by a team — including a battle-hardened ex-soldier and a powerful artificial intelligence — to pull off a high-stakes digital heist.