Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the Goon Squad" connects the lives of a music executive and his assistant, showing how ambition, decay, and redemption unfold over decades in the music industry.
From 18th-century Ghanaian castles to Mississippi plantations, "Homegoing" traces two half-sisters' diverging paths and their descendants across eight generations, showing slavery's lasting impact.
In an alternate 1962 where the Axis powers won WWII, an antique dealer, a resistance fighter, and a mysterious author's forbidden novel ignite a dangerous search for truth across a divided America.
On the moon's only city, a small-time smuggler named Jazz Bashara dives into a high-stakes heist that plunges her into a dangerous conspiracy for control of Artemis itself, forcing her to gamble everything for survival.
After a Romani elder's curse causes a morbidly obese lawyer to waste away following a hit-and-run, he must desperately fight a supernatural affliction that promises a slow, agonizing death.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie blends personal stories with clear analysis to redefine twenty-first-century feminism as an urgent, inclusive call to action that benefits everyone, exposing both obvious and subtle gender inequalities across cultures.
After a failed suicide attempt, Veronika finds a new will to live as she faces society's idea of madness and the beauty of her own existence in a mental institution.
Don your deerstalker and prepare for Victorian London's most perplexing crimes, where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson unravel mysteries from the scarlet-stained streets to the moors of Baskerville.
After Hurricane Katrina and a vampire summit explosion, Sookie Stackhouse deals with betrayal, a missing boyfriend, and changing supernatural loyalties, forever altering her world as a human caught between warring factions.
A jobless web designer finds a peculiar 24-hour bookstore, discovering its cryptic patrons and the ancient secret they guard, which forces him to solve a mystery combining modern technology with centuries-old lore.
Werewolves and shapeshifters reveal themselves, drawing telepathic Sookie Stackhouse into a murder investigation and an ancient war, while her brother becomes a panther and her boss hides secrets.
A record store owner obsessed with his top five break-ups confronts his inability to move past his latest split, forcing him to re-evaluate love, life, and the women he's pushed away.
A practical arrangement of no-strings-attached passion between a busy nurse and a haunted pilot unravels as unspoken pasts and feelings collide, proving that even difficult love can demand everything.
At a boarding school for spies, a teenage operative fluent in fourteen languages and trained to kill finds her most perilous mission isn't espionage, but navigating a normal romance with a boy who can never know her true identity.
In a 1940s Ohio town, a young Black girl's desperate yearning for blue eyes reveals the devastating, internalized racism of a society that equates whiteness with worth.
Four years after his wife's death, a grieving novelist returns to his haunted Maine summerhouse, only to be pulled into a custody battle and a terrifying supernatural mystery demanding he confront the malevolent secrets lurking within Sara Laughs.
A broke, unproven law school graduate takes on a monolithic, corrupt insurance giant to expose a billion-dollar scam and fight for a dying boy's denied medical care, risking everything against the nation's most formidable legal defense.
A spirited orphan transforms the lives around her, from her reclusive grandfather in the Swiss Alps to a lonely invalid in bustling Frankfurt, all while yearning for the freedom of her mountain home.
As the world nears the Shadow, the Dragon Reborn must defy all expectations and forge his own path, even as ancient prophecies unravel, the White Tower faces internal conflict, and new threats appear.
On a remote, magic-filled island, the sorcerer duke Prospero creates a storm to lure his brother and their conspirators, weaving a story of revenge, love, and forgiveness through his spirits and monstrous servant.
Mary Roach uncovers the adventurous afterlife of human cadavers, from scientific breakthroughs to unusual experiments, revealing their vital contributions after death.
In the quiet, coastal town of Crosby, Maine, a retired, often difficult schoolteacher named Olive Kitteridge navigates the complex, often painful, and ultimately connected lives of her community, slowly revealing the raw, enduring heart of human experience.
In the sun-baked city of Oran, a deadly plague forces residents to confront existence, testing their resilience, compassion, and definition of humanity amid inescapable death.
