Colson Whitehead's novel turns the Underground Railroad into a literal train, sending runaway slave Cora on a journey through different horrors of antebellum America, all while she is hunted.
In a New Hampshire town, a small boy with an unusual voice believes he is God's instrument after a tragic baseball accident, changing his best friend's life and faith in 20th-century America.
A Black labor and delivery nurse's life falls apart when she's told not to care for a white supremacist couple's newborn, leading to a tragic event and a trial that makes everyone face deep-seated prejudices.
A Nigerian woman navigates race in America, while her lover lives undocumented in London. 'Americanah' follows their journeys of self-discovery, cultural identity, and rekindled love when they return to a changed homeland.
A promising Black couple's American Dream shatters when the husband is wrongly imprisoned, forcing his artist wife to navigate a new love and an impossible choice when he is suddenly freed five years later.
Through the eyes of fraternal twins Rahel and Estha, Roy writes a moving and rich story exploring forbidden love, the caste system, and the shattering impact of one fateful decision in 1960s Kerala.
Gogol, a young man burdened by his unusual name and Indian heritage in America, goes on a journey of self-discovery, cultural conflict, and changing family ties.
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch confronts the painful truth that her father, Atticus, and her hometown of Maycomb are not the moral paragons she believed, forcing her to forge her own conscience in a changing South.
In a funny and sharp satire, the corpulent, anachronistic Ignatius J. Reilly, a self-proclaimed genius, wages a one-man war against modern life, vice, and the 'dunces' of New Orleans, all while begrudgingly navigating the indignities of employment and a hot-dog cart.
Haunted by the memory of the Lisbon sisters, a group of neighborhood boys recounts the beauty and tragic end of five lives in 1970s suburbia, forever marked by their suicides.
After a brutal event on a Nigerian beach, a young asylum seeker and a grieving British widow find their lives connected by a shared secret and the hope of a fresh start.
An aging science fiction writer's bizarre tales become unsettling reality for a car dealer, forcing America to confront its own absurdities through Vonnegut's satirical lens.
Amidst the desolation of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier's difficult journey home to his beloved shows enduring love and human resilience.
Six connected stories span centuries, from a 19th-century Pacific journey to a future after the world ends, showing how lives change and choices echo through time, shaping destinies as civilizations rise and fall.
In the isolated, hockey-obsessed town of Beartown, a single act of violence shatters a community's fragile dreams, forcing them to confront the true cost of loyalty, ambition, and silence.
Follow four college friends navigating ambition, art, and devastating trauma in New York City, as their unwavering bond is tested by the enigmatic and increasingly broken Jude, whose unspeakable past threatens to define their lives forever.
Fifteen years after Offred's uncertain fate, three women from within and without Gilead reveal the explosive truths and hidden rebellions that could finally shatter its totalitarian grip.
A reclusive, grieving bookstore owner on a small island finds his misanthropic world upended and his heart unexpectedly reopened by the mysterious arrival of a baby and the persistent charm of a quirky sales rep.
