Annals of the Western Shore

Ursula K. Le Guin

In these three short novels, Le Guin takes us to the Western Shore, where people of magic and people of war and people of books all try to make their lives together.

Searoad

Ursula K. Le Guin

This collection of interlocking stories tells of the people who live in a small town on the Oregon coast.

Mitz

Sigrid Nunez

In the summer of 1934, Leonard and Virginia Woolf adopted a marmoset named Mitz.

The Empusium

Olga Tokarczuk

In 1913, a young Pole arrives at a health resort in the Silesian mountains, a place known to be free of consumption due to the still, damp air.

Waking the Moon

Elizabeth Hand

An ancient secret order finds itself up against its most powerful foe: the Moon Goddess has returned.

Slow River

Nicola Griffith

Lore wakes up in an alley, naked, a huge gash running down her back, her identity implant—the only proof of her heritage in one of the world’s richest families—gone.

Ammonite

Nicola Griffith

Marguerite (“Marghe”) Taishan is about to step foot on the planet Jeep when she receives a warning: if she goes on, she will never come back.

Always

Nicola Griffith

Aud is back in Atlanta, teaching a self-defense class to a ragtag group of women, when one of her students takes her lessons in a direction she didn’t imagine.

Stay

Nicola Griffith

Aud Torvingen is tucked away in a remote cabin, grieving and alone.

The Blue Place

Nicola Griffith

Aud Torvingen is a Norwegian living in Atlanta, a former cop moonlighting as security, an expert in several forms of martial arts, and six feet tall.

The Telling

Ursula K. Le Guin

Sutty, an observer from Terra, arrives on the planet Aka to find a singular, oppressive capitalist state has taken over the entire population in the years she spent traversing the stars to get there.

Five Ways to Forgiveness

Ursula K. Le Guin

When the Hain first visit the Werelian system, they encounter a people living in a rigid and violently hierarchical system, separated into “owners” and “assets.”

The Wood at Midwinter

Susanna Clarke

In this short fable of midwinter, Susanna Clarke tells of the speech of dogs and pigs and foxes and the woods themselves, who talk to those who know how to listen.

When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamín Labutat

A book that is both fiction and non-fiction, both wave and particle, both history and imagination, and somehow, something else entirely.

Conquest

Nina Allan

Rachel’s boyfriend Frank is not like other people.

The Wall

Marlen Haushofer

On holiday in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman wakes up to find that an invisible wall has descended all around her.

Everything for Everyone

M.E. O’Brien & Eman Abdelhadi

On May 6, 2052, a sex worker named Miss Kelley joined with her neighbors in Hunts Point to take over a produce market and distribute the food to those in need.

HIM

Geoff Ryman

“Women, of course, can not be sons of God.”

Dry Land

B. Pladek

In the woods of Wisconsin, a young forester named Rand Brandt learns that he can grow any plant he imagines in minutes, merely by touching the dirt.

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