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After nuclear war destroys civilization, Lilith Iyapo wakes aboard an alien ship. The Oankali offer humanity survival — but at the cost of genetic merger. Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy opener explores consent, power, and what it means to remain human.

Vic Van Allen is the model suburban husband — except that he allows his wife Melinda to carry on a series of affairs openly, to prevent her from leaving him. When one of her lovers is found dead, Vic lets it be known that he killed him. He didn't — but the bluff establishes something. A portrait of suburban American life as a theatre of controlled violence, and one of Highsmith's most chilling studies in the psychology of a particular kind of man.

A provocative argument that optimizing for maximum wealth accumulation is the wrong goal — that the aim should be to use your money to create maximum life experiences before you die.

Dirk Gently, self-styled holistic detective, investigates a case involving a ghost, an electric monk, a time machine, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge — all of which, he insists, are fundamentally connected.

Orphaned Rose Campbell comes to live with her seven aunts and eight boy cousins, and her unconventional guardian Uncle Alec sets about raising her according to his progressive ideas about health, fresh air, and genuine education.

Lydia Lee — the favourite daughter of a mixed-race family in 1970s Ohio — is found dead in the local lake. The investigation into how she got there unravels the secrets and silences at the heart of the Lee family: the expectations her parents poured into her, the loneliness she could not admit, and the ways families fail each other while trying to love.

DeLillo's 9/11 novel follows Keith Neudecker, who walks away from the World Trade Center on the morning of the attacks carrying a stranger's briefcase, and the weeks afterward as he and his wife Lianne try to rebuild — and the performance artist who falls from buildings in a harness, recreating the image of the falling man. DeLillo writes around the event rather than depicting it, which is the only honest formal strategy for something that defeated language.

Andy McGee and his eight-year-old daughter Charlie are on the run from a shadowy government agency called The Shop after years of experiments have left Charlie with pyrokinetic abilities she can barely control. The more frightened Charlie becomes, the larger and less predictable her fires.

Six friends on a road trip to spring break. The RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere. A sniper pins them in place. Someone in the RV is the target — and someone knows who.

Casey Han, the daughter of Korean immigrants in New York City, graduates from Princeton and finds herself navigating a world she was educated to enter but never quite allowed to inhabit — a big, ambitious novel about class, identity, and the cost of assimilation.

The Berglunds — an outwardly ideal liberal family in St. Paul — fall apart across decades as Walter, Patty, and their son Joey pursue freedom in ways that destroy the people around them.

Glyndon Doyle arrives at Reinar University determined to start over. Killian Carson — cold, brilliant, and the undisputed ruler of campus — decides her fresh start belongs to him.

A woman who has lost her language — who has gone mute following personal losses — attends a class in ancient Greek taught by a man who is losing his sight. A novel about language, loss, and the possibility of connection when ordinary communication fails.

Decades after the events of Red Mars, the terraforming debate intensifies as the planet's surface slowly changes. Robinson's Hugo Award-winning middle volume deepens the political and ecological complexity of the trilogy while advancing its multi-generational saga.

An unnamed researcher interviews dozens of people about Leni Pfeiffer—a German woman who survived the Nazi period, the war, and the postwar economic miracle by simply being, refusing ideology and staying human. The novel is assembled from testimony. Böll's most humanist and most comprehensive work—the book that won him the Nobel Prize.

Ibram X. Kendi argues that there is no neutral position on racism — only racist and antiracist policies and ideas — and weaves this argument through memoir, examining his own history of internalized racism and the process of thinking himself out of it.

John Wade, a Vietnam veteran and politician, retreats to a lakeside cabin after a catastrophic election defeat. Then his wife Kathy disappears. The novel assembles evidence — testimonies, documents, O'Brien's own speculations — without ever resolving what happened.

Set in a near-future North America where years are sponsored by corporations, David Foster Wallace's sprawling novel interweaves two main locations — the Enfield Tennis Academy and the Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House — around the search for a film so entertaining that viewers lose all will to do anything else.

A journalist shipwrecked on the fictional island of Pala discovers a society that has successfully integrated Eastern and Western wisdom — meditation, psychedelics, rational education, and cooperative economics — into a functional utopia. Huxley's final novel is his deliberate answer to Brave New World.

Mary Yellan arrives at Jamaica Inn on the Cornish moors to live with her aunt, and finds a place of terror run by her brutal uncle Joss Merlyn, who is involved in wrecking ships on the coast for their cargo.

In 1926 Harlem, a man shoots his young lover at her funeral while his wife grieves, attacks the dead girl's face, and attempts to understand what the city and their history have made of them all.

John Buddy Pearson, a Black man of great physical beauty and rhetorical power, becomes a Baptist preacher in Florida and cannot resist the women who desire him. Hurston's first novel — published before Their Eyes Were Watching God — uses her father's life as raw material and her folk research as language.

A Mumbai developer offers the residents of a crumbling housing society an enormous sum to vacate — all but one agree. Masterji, a retired schoolteacher, refuses. What happens to him is the novel.

Peter Aaron narrates the story of his friend and fellow writer Benjamin Sachs, who died in an explosion while detonating a replica of the Statue of Liberty — and gradually reconstructs, from memory and from investigation, how a man of political ideals became a bomber.