In an America where Charles Lindbergh becomes president and aligns with Nazi Germany, a young Philip Roth navigates the terrifying descent of his Jewish family and nation into an abyss of fascism and antisemitism.
An Australian surgeon, held in a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, struggles with starvation and cholera, while remembering a passionate affair and facing the lasting costs of love, war, and survival.
In this 19th-century Russian novel, the officer Pechorin creates destruction and manipulates others in the Caucasus, embodying a generation's spiritual emptiness.
In a Mississippi Gulf Coast town, a pregnant teen and her brothers deal with poverty, a coming hurricane, and the harsh demands of family and nature as they try to save what little they have.
On a secluded Greek isle, a young teacher's escape from boredom turns into a dangerous psychological game run by a reclusive millionaire, blurring reality and threatening his sanity.
In a crumbling Himalayan mansion, a disillusioned judge, his granddaughter in a forbidden romance, and a cook whose son chases the American dream navigate personal turmoil and the violent currents of a nation grappling with its past and future.
In Victorian England, a respectable fossil hunter falls for a mysterious, rebellious woman known as 'the French Lieutenant's woman,' leading him into a scandalous affair that challenges the era's rules and his ideas about love and freedom.
In a future where machines have made humanity obsolete, a disillusioned engineer leads an absurd, yet serious, rebellion against the automated utopia he helped create.
A young woman, recruited by MI5 to secretly influence the literary world during the Cold War, finds her mission complicated by an unexpected love for the writer she's tasked to manipulate.
A woman returns to her childhood home and the magnetic pull of her first love, forcing her to confront the choices that shaped her life and the hidden passions of those she left behind.
Margaret Atwood reclaims the ancient myth of Odysseus's return through the eyes of Penelope and her twelve hanged maids, revealing untold truths and injustices behind the epic.
A story of self-destruction and disillusionment, following an aristocratic couple in the Jazz Age as their pursuit of pleasure and inheritance unravels.
Two orphaned sisters in a desolate, watery town navigate the enigmatic, transient world of their eccentric aunt, grappling with the pull between societal norms and a life untethered.
Two British Muslim sisters face devastating choices about love and loyalty after their brother joins ISIS and the son of a powerful politician enters their lives, linking two families forever.
Haunted by his wife's suicide, an American expatriate in Rome unearths generations of family secrets, from the Holocaust to Vietnam, to confront betrayals and find peace amid the ruins of his past.
A reclusive scholar's increasingly unhinged annotations on his deceased neighbor's 999-line poem unveil a tale of mistaken identity, exile, and the tricky nature of interpretation.
A chorus of Japanese picture brides narrates their collective journey from hopeful arrivals in California to the silent struggles of assimilation, labor, motherhood, and the eventual, devastating erasure of their dreams by a foreign land and war.
An unconventional 1930s Edinburgh schoolmistress captivates a select group of girls, molding them into her 'Brodie set' with her romantic ideals, only for her influence to spiral into a manipulative and ultimately destructive force.
Eight strangers at an apartment open house, caught in a hostage situation that never happened, discover their shared humanity and paths to rescue when the 'robber' vanishes.
In the wild American West of the early 1900s, a solitary orchardist's ordered life is upended when he shelters two feral, pregnant girls, forcing him to confront a violent past and forge an unconventional family rooted in the unforgiving land.
After a hyperbaric chamber explodes, killing two, a small-town murder trial uncovers hidden motives, immigrant struggles, and the desperate acts families take to protect their own, revealing the volatile secrets beneath a community united by a controversial cure.
In a modern reimagining of a Grimm's fairy tale, three women grapple with the resurfacing specter of Zenia, a college acquaintance whose demonic manipulations have, at various times, plundered their husbands, careers, and peace of mind.
