A rural community is shattered by a violent incursion, pushing a group of young people onto the road under urgent threat. They become caught in a wider struggle involving an articulated system of magic, looming malevolent forces, and competing powers.

A collection of interlinked short stories drawn from Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War experience, following a platoon of American soldiers. Each chapter focuses on material items, personal recollections, or specific incidents that reveal how memory, fear, and obligation shape their daily lives and relationships.

Set during the First World War, the novel follows officers treated for shell shock at a military psychiatric hospital. The plot focuses on their therapy, conversations, and struggles to reconcile wartime experiences with civilian identities while clinicians and fellow patients negotiate guilt, duty, and recovery.

A near-future urban world where immersive virtual systems, media feeds, and software-hacking reshape identity and embodiment.

A 1991 novel by Kathe Koja that focuses on an ordinary domestic life disturbed by an uncanny, physical mystery that draws the protagonists into escalating fixation and danger.

Blanche on the Lam introduces Blanche White, an African-American domestic worker who becomes entangled in a criminal accusation and then in solving mysteries around her.

An energetic near-future story that interleaves a fast-paced real-world plot with a pervasive virtual-reality environment and a memetic/linguistic threat.

A scientist's wide-angle account of how species have originated, diversified, and occupied Earth’s ecosystems, paired with a diagnosis of contemporary biodiversity decline.

Four very different people converge in an Italian villa during the later stages of World War II: a severely burned, anonymous patient; the Canadian nurse who tends him; a Sikh sapper; and a Canadian thief.