On Earth As It Is Beneath is set in a Brazilian prison built on hidden bones, where inmates are hunted each month in a brutal survival ritual.

Demon Copperhead, forced to grow up too fast amid poverty, addiction, and a broken foster system. A rich retelling of a Dickens classic.

A grandfather is forgetting his memory. His son and grandson are left holding onto what’s slipping away in this short, aching book by Backman.

Meet Lucas, a man happy in his own world, until a frying pan changes everything in The Answer is No, Fredrik Backman’s witty short book.

Some people always want more from life than life will hand them. The Trouble with Happiness is about that ache, and the homes it wrecks.

The Castle is an unfinished novel about a man trapped in an absurd bureaucracy. He fights for answers no one will ever give him.

Four strangers, a remote island, and an ocean full of secrets. Playground is a stunning story of nature, friendship, and life’s big questions.

Brutal murders shake the town where Emmett Till died, and the truth cuts deeper than anyone feared. The Trees is haunting and funny.

A regretful father and a dying little girl meet in one hospital room. One choice could change everything, what is a single life really worth?

Imagines a world where humans turn into trees as the planet grows greener and emptier. A story of nature, tech, and the cost of letting go.

Heart the Lover explores how the choices we make in youth ripple through our entire lives, for better and worse.

Through malaria and fever, a woman remembers the four people who made her. The Details shows how we’re built from the ones we love.