In a searing portrait of a military family, a defiant son battles for his identity against the tyrannical love and unyielding expectations of his fighter-pilot father, the explosive Bull Meecham.
A San Francisco art patron, now a ghost, watches her planned Burma Road tour turn into a comedic and tragic journey of cultural mistakes, tribal curses, and disappearing tourists, as she grapples with the ironies of good intentions and unexpected outcomes.
In the desolate Ozarks, a determined teen named Ree races against time and a code of silence to find her missing, drug-dealing father, whose disappearance threatens to cost her family their home.
After a bridge collapses, a monk spends a decade investigating the lives of the five victims, hoping to prove divine intervention and understand the connections of fate and love.
A young baron, rebelling against his family, chooses to live entirely in the trees, navigating adventures, love, and the Enlightenment from his arboreal kingdom while never touching the ground again.
Amidst the sweltering heat and the decaying secrets of their isolated home, four orphaned siblings descend into a disturbing, self-made world where the lines between innocence and depravity blur, all to keep their parents' deaths a secret.
Twelve stories by Adichie explore the emotional lives of Nigerians navigating tradition, modernity, homeland, and diaspora, revealing the quiet heartbreaks and strong hopes born from these colliding worlds.
A resilient young girl, abandoned to the cruelties of the rural South, schemes to escape her abusive home and find a place where she can finally be loved.
A young Iraq War hero, thrust into a surreal halftime show at a Dallas Cowboys game, grapples with the fleeting nature of celebrity and the stark reality of his imminent return to combat.
A Bangladeshi woman in an arranged marriage in London's East End builds a new life through a forbidden affair, challenging tradition amid cultural tension.
After losing a hand to a lion, a cynical TV journalist receives a transplant from a dead man whose widow demands visitation rights, forcing them into a bizarre relationship that challenges their notions of loss, connection, and second chances.
Through assassins, drug lords, ghosts, and CIA agents, Marlon James reconstructs the chaotic aftermath of the 1976 assassination attempt on Bob Marley, tracing its violent ripples across decades and continents.
In a searing satire of trial-by-media America, a cynical teen, wrongly implicated in a school shooting, navigates a chaotic journey toward death row reality TV and a desperate bid for freedom.
In Southern California's canyons, the lives of a wealthy, white couple and a struggling, undocumented Mexican couple become tragically linked after a car accident.
In "Cathedral," Raymond Carver shows how quiet despair and deep connection exist in everyday life, where a blind man can help someone truly see the world through another's eyes.
In post-WWII London, a Jamaican couple seeking belonging and their white landlady navigating her own hidden truths reveal the complexities of immigration, prejudice, and unexpected human connection.
A London detective returns to war-torn Shanghai, only to find his childhood memories of his parents' disappearance are as unreliable as the city itself.
A missionary travels to a distant planet to spread the Gospel, but his faith and marriage face challenges when his wife's letters reveal Earth's collapse, making them confront love and devotion across a cosmic distance.
A student's casual postcard joke about optimism leads to political persecution and a lifetime of misguided revenge, showing the lasting effects of one impulsive act on love, identity, and the human spirit.
A college student, recovering from an assault, becomes obsessed with a homeless man's past, finding photographs that hint at a glamorous life and a connection to her own Long Island childhood, blurring reality, memory, and echoes of The Great Gatsby.
Lila, a wanderer with a protective past, finds refuge in an Iowa church, leading to an unexpected marriage, a spiritual awakening, and a new understanding of love and belonging.
