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After a police raid, a young man in Cairo is trapped between interrogation, betrayal, and the fear of being seen.
Baril argues that suicidal people are oppressed by structural suicidism and proposes a trans, queer, crip, and intersectional framework for rethinking suicide, prevention, and assisted dying.
A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told from the perspective of the enslaved Jim as he fights for freedom.
This story collection explores the secrets, silences, and emotional fractures that shape intimate relationships and everyday family life.
A boy in wartime Japan learns to perform “normal,” even as desire and shame sharpen into a dangerous double life.
Seventeen-year-old Waldo fixates on her married writing teacher, chasing attention, power, and the ache of being seen.
Seventeen-year-old Cécile spends a summer on the French Riviera with her pleasure-loving father, but the arrival of a poised family friend disrupts their carefree life and sets off a cruel chain of events.
A detective and a neuroscientist confront a reality-shattering phenomenon in which false memories spread like an epidemic, threatening time, identity, and the fabric of reality itself.
A practical guide to stress, emotion, and rest that explains how to complete the stress cycle and resist burnout, especially for women.
Kant investigates how the mind structures experience and what the limits of human knowledge are.
In a magical department store where dreams are sold and designed, an employee discovers the intricate world of slumber and human desires.
The arrival of oil and Americans in a Gulf oasis shatters an older way of life and exposes the human cost of rapid modernization.
In this autobiographical novel, an Italian Jewish family’s everyday conversations and eccentricities paint a vivid portrait of life amid fascism, war, and personal loss.
Drawing on archaeology and anthropology, Graeber and Wengrow challenge simple stories about progress, inequality, and the origins of civilization.
A sharp-tongued retired lawyer writes letters that quietly redraw her friendships, regrets, and the life she thought was finished.
Essays challenging how Palestinians are expected to perform innocence and respectability to be heard in Western discourse.
A teenage girl inherits a vast fortune from a mysterious billionaire and must solve a series of deadly puzzles to claim it.
A queer Muslim memoir threaded with scripture, as Lamya rewrites faith, family, and the body into belonging.
Fresh from top surgery, Hunter gets bitten by a werewolf—and his hard-won body starts changing again.
A gothic writer becomes entangled with a dangerous stalker in a dark romance that mixes obsession, suspense, and trauma.
In the ruthless world of the Russian mafia, a forced marriage sparks a dangerous power struggle and a forbidden romance.
In gilded New York, a respectable engagement unravels when a scandalous countess forces one man to choose between duty and desire.
Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor in a bankrupt general's household, becomes entangled in obsessive love, family intrigue, and the destructive lure of roulette in a casino town.
After the pope dies, 118 cardinals gather behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel to elect his successor, where ambition, rivalry, and secrets shape a tense power struggle.
Four women in a book club bond over literature while confronting personal struggles, societal expectations, and the power of female friendship in a small-town setting.
Ortega y Gasset argues that philosophy seeks a total view of reality grounded in lived human experience.
In this memoir, Tara Westover recounts growing up in a survivalist family in rural Idaho and fighting for an education that remade her life.
A boy's fascination with his widowed mother's lover curdles into obsession and violence in this dark novel of alienation and nihilism.
Patti Smith remembers her youth in New York and her intense artistic friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe.
In 1950s Tehran, two girls forge a fierce friendship that has to survive class, politics, and the revolutions of a lifetime.
In South Wales, two men begin a tender love affair that must remain hidden from the world around them.
After a car crash, a novelist is held captive by his self-proclaimed number-one fan, whose devotion turns terrifyingly violent.
Your dreams get surveilled—then they use them to lock you up.
A dystopian tale of female oppression and resistance in a theocratic regime.
In the totalitarian Republic of Gilead, a woman forced into reproductive servitude struggles to survive and remember her former life.
A socially unconventional woman finds purpose in the strict routines of a Tokyo convenience store, challenging society’s expectations of “normal.”
Chaol journeys south to seek healing and new allies, uncovering a kingdom’s secrets along the way.
Deleuze and Guattari present philosophy as the creation of concepts distinct from the aims of science and art.
Angela Davis examines how racism, class conflict, and sexism shaped feminism, abolitionism, and labor politics in the United States.
A young solicitor is sent to a remote haunted house to settle an estate and encounters the terrifying spectral figure known as the Woman in Black.
A newly sober poet becomes obsessed with martyrdom, art, and grief as he searches for meaning in his own life and his family’s past.
A woman wakes in “Ladyland,” a flipped world where science runs the streets and men are kept out of sight.
A young soldier raised in a militarized space station begins to question her indoctrination in this queer space opera.
Greene distills historical examples into provocative rules about influence, manipulation, strategy, and self-protection.
Kandinsky argues color and form can hit the soul—an early blueprint for abstract art’s inner life.
Burkeman argues that the answer to modern time anxiety is not greater productivity but accepting our finite lives, then choosing more deliberately what truly matters.
A collection of essays in which Le Guin reflects on feminism, literature, language, and the kinds of worlds humans choose to build.
Two families in India are bound and torn apart by ferocious love, secrets, and an act of betrayal that echoes across generations.
A philosophical novel that probes guilt, redemption, humanity, love, and the choices that define who we are.
A missing girl and a dead ship ignite a conspiracy that could set Earth, Mars, and the Belt on fire.
A Harlem furniture dealer trying to stay respectable is drawn into a web of heists, corruption, and survival.
In an unnamed Gulf emirate in the 1930s, the discovery of oil transforms and devastates an oasis community as foreign interests and modernization upend traditional life.
Josef K. is suddenly arrested and drawn into a baffling legal process without ever being told his crime, in a nightmarish world of opaque authority and endless bureaucracy.
A woman in Ramallah becomes obsessed with a 1949 crime in the Negev and follows the trail until past and present collide.
A queer life told through rooms, clothes, desire, and memory—part memoir, part love letter to style.
A true-crime celebrity returns to the desert where it began—and the story she sold starts turning on her.
In a fragmented future, a woman bonds with a cyborg while questions of identity, community, and survival reshape what it means to be human.
When data defaults to “male,” everything—from medicine to cities—breaks for women, and the receipts are everywhere.
A farmer plots his wife’s murder, then watches guilt, rats, and bad luck multiply into something worse than justice.
Edmonds traces Peter Singer’s famous drowning-child thought experiment and the debates it sparked about charity and moral duty.
In 1580s Stratford, Agnes loses her son, and a private grief echoes into the play we know as Hamlet.
Two brothers, one funeral, and a tangle of love that won’t behave.
The heartwarming coming-of-age story of four sisters navigating love, loss, and poverty in Civil War-era America.
Facing terminal illness, Pausch reflects on childhood dreams, resilience, and how to live meaningfully.
Drawing on personal reflection and theory, Ashley examines trans embodiment, desire, vulnerability, and liberation in a gendered world.
Beginning with two half-sisters in eighteenth-century Ghana, the novel traces their descendants across generations in Africa and America.
A psychologist makes the case that creating is an act of bravery—because it risks being seen.
The saga’s finale as Aelin and her allies make a last stand to save their world.
An “impossible” murder pulls two investigators into an empire’s rot—where every answer has a price.
A sharp set of stories where desire, status, and bad timing turn ordinary lives into tight little detonations.
A field guide to arguing less and persuading more—how to talk when facts alone won’t land.
When a murder hits a retirement community, the “sweet old ladies” start snooping—and they’re better at it than anyone expects.
An audacious exploration of queer life, love, and survival across generations in contemporary Nigeria.
Two anthologies of short fiction imagining Palestine on the eve of 1948 and a century later through speculative and realistic lenses.
Set in 1980s New York, Whitehead’s novel follows Ray Carney and his circle through a city of crime, ambition, glamour, and upheaval.
Two Black artists fall hard—then the world tests how safe love can be.
A communist double agent in the wake of the Vietnam War narrates a darkly satirical story of divided loyalties, exile, and identity.
Straight talk for artists on doubt, procrastination, and why making more work beats waiting for genius.
Emin’s raw coming-of-age: class, trauma, sex, and the messy birth of an artist’s voice.
An Instagram-perfect life in Berlin—and the slow rot behind the filter.
This celebrated collection gathers Berlin’s sharp, funny, and unsentimental stories about working lives, addiction, family, and survival.
A man’s dreams rewrite reality, and a well-meaning psychiatrist keeps turning the world into something worse.
No hacks—just a sharp, generous reset for how you make (and notice) things.
An intimate novel in which letters and relationships reshape a life, revealing the emotional consequences of connection, regret, and reinvention.
What do we do with brilliant art made by terrible people? A fierce, personal reckoning.
In working-class Madrid, a trans girl grows up fighting shame, violence, and tenderness to claim herself.
This revisionist history retells the lives of Rome’s imperial women and challenges the misogynistic myths that have distorted them for centuries.
Defiant poems that turn pain into power—line after unforgettable line.
After a catastrophic heat wave, a global agency experiments with political, technological, and moral responses to the climate crisis.
A sharp, funny tour through the art world’s money myths—who gets paid, who doesn’t, and why.
A boy in wartime Japan perfects a “normal” persona while desire and dread sharpen into double life.
An orphan’s journey toward independence and love leads her to a dark secret hidden within a gothic manor.
A choreographer’s playbook for building routines that keep creativity on tap.
Two friends build video games—and a life-sized mess of love, ambition, and loss.
Two brothers, burdened by grief and desire, struggle through intimacy, family tension, and the uneven rhythms of adult life.
An unexpected pregnancy tangles three people in a fierce debate about womanhood, family, and what transition can’t solve.
After making a desperate bargain for freedom, Addie is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets until one man remembers her.
In a tense postwar household, buried secrets and obsessive attachments unsettle a woman’s carefully controlled life.
