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Robert M. Sapolsky
Robert Sapolsky's Behave is a sweeping book that investigates the biological foundations of human behavior. Connecting hormones, the brain, evolution, and social environment, it asks why people move toward both good and bad actions.
Michael Kelly, Brian Evenson, Alison Moore, M. Rickert, Robert Shearman, Nicholas Royle, Steve Rasnic Tem, Simon Strantzas, Conrad Williams
An anthology of short horror fiction by a range of writers. It spans classical gothic moods to contemporary psychological dread, showing how many forms fear can take.
Geraldine McCaughrean
In 1727, boys and men left on a sea stac off St Kilda to harvest birds are forced to survive when no one returns for them. Inspired by a real event, the novel explores hunger, fear, faith, authority and the breakdown and remaking of community.
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Set in a local community, this novel entwines an age-gap relationship with religious and social taboos. The clash between individual desire and communal norms reveals complicated relationships shaped by violence, redemption, and atonement.
Gwethalyn Graham
A wartime novel about antisemitism and social conflict in Canada.
Anne Charnock
Beginning in near-future London, this science fiction novel follows several generations as reproductive medicine and the shape of family change rapidly. Artificial wombs, solo reproduction, and genetic choice unsettle intimacy, class, and the meaning of parenthood.
Barry Lyga
A biographical novel based on the life of Herman Bang, blending historical fact and invention to portray artistic solitude, social exclusion, desire, and failure.
Kelly Lytle Hernández
City of Inmates traces the making of confinement in Los Angeles through colonization, Indigenous dispossession, immigration control, and the governance of Black and Latinx communities. It shows how urban growth and the politics of human caging were inseparable.
Kellie Jones
This art-history study examines how Black artists in Los Angeles built creative communities and exhibition spaces amid structural racism. It links migration, urban policy, and the Black arts movement.
Valeria Luiselli, Jon Lee Anderson
Tell Me How It Ends is an essay built around the questionnaire used for children in U.S. immigration court, following the stories of minors who crossed the border. Drawing on the author’s work as an interpreter, it examines the ethics of narration and the cruelty of systems.
Cathryn Josefina Merla-watson, B. V. Olguin
Altermundos is an edited collection crossing Latin@ speculative literature, film, and popular culture. It rereads colonialism, immigration, globalization, race, and gender through speculative imagination.
Mathias Enard, Charlotte Mandell
The novel follows an insomniac musicologist in Vienna whose memories open onto a wide network of Orientalist scholarship and historical exchange.