28 books
Grace D. Li
Will Chen is a Chinese American art history student at Harvard who witnesses a museum heist and shortly thereafter is approached by a Chinese corporation with an offer: Fifty million dollars to steal back five bronze zodiac heads looted from…
Yume Kitasei
Eighty crew members, all women and nonbinary, on a generation ship carrying humanity’s last real hope to a habitable planet, ten years out from Earth. An explosion during a spacewalk kills three of them and knocks the ship off course,…
Mick Herron
A standalone in the Slough House world. A pointless government inquiry called Monochrome has been given a windowless room and no real powers, and two civil servants have spent two years finding nothing — until a classified file lands on…
Sara Herchenroether
In 1983, hikers in the Gila National Forest find a woman and two children in barrels. Thirty years later nobody has a name for any of them. Laura MacDonald, a librarian and genealogist in Connecticut going through breast cancer treatment,…
Charles Cumming
The second Lachlan Kite book, and it splits the same way the first one did. In 1993, Kite is a young officer sent into post-Soviet Russia under cover as an English teacher, running an exfiltration of a bioweapons scientist out…
M.R. Carey
A physicist in a collapsing Lagos discovers how to step sideways into parallel Earths and is immediately picked up by the Pandominion, an empire spanning a million versions of the world, run by the humans and animal-descended peoples who got…
Jen Beagin
Greta is 46, broke, and living in a half-ruined Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York, with a beekeeper and a bunch of bees in the walls. She has a job transcribing the sessions of a local sex-and-relationship coach, which means…
Merlin Sheldrake
Fungi are having a moment. Research shows psychedelics can be a powerful tool to treat mental health issues, and local, state, and federal governments are open to decriminalizing shrooms or exploring medical applications. But, as Merlin Sheldrake enthusiastically shows, fungi…
