Books like Leave the World Behind
Amanda and Clay take their teenage children to a rented house at the far end of Long Island for a week's vacation, and on the second night an older Black couple knock at the door, saying they own the house and have fled a sudden blackout in New York.
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Everything I Never Told You
Lydia is dead. So begins the story of the Lees, a Chinese American family in 1970s small-town Ohio, whose favourite daughter is found in the local lake, and whose parents, brother and younger sister were never as close as they seemed.
The Compound
Lily, bored and beautiful and in no hurry to return to a world that is falling apart, wakes in a remote desert compound as one of twenty contestants on a hit reality show, where the last one left wins and every task earns another luxury, or a necessity like food or a front door.
Little Fires Everywhere
In the planned suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, in 1997, the orderly Richardson family rents a house to Mia Warren, an itinerant artist, and her teenage daughter Pearl, and a custody fight over a Chinese American baby divides the town and the two families.
On Beauty
Two academic families, the liberal mixed-race Belseys and the conservative Trinidadian-British Kippses, collide in a New England college town in Zadie Smith's update of Howards End.
What's Mine and Yours
When a North Carolina county brings Black and Latino students from the east side into a mostly white high school, two families, Gee's and Noelle's, are bound together for the next twenty years.
Tar Baby
A successful Black model visiting her wealthy white patrons on a Caribbean island meets a drifter who upends her sense of self.
Study for Obedience
A young Jewish woman moves to a remote northern European country to keep house for her brother and senses, in the village, a rising anger that keeps finding her.
The Casual Vacancy
When parish councillor Barry Fairbrother dies suddenly in his forties, his empty seat sets off a war in the pretty English town of Pagford, where rich and poor, parents and teenagers, are each hiding something.
Hangsaman
A troubled young woman leaves home for college and begins to unravel in ways that may or may not be real.
The Other Black Girl
Nella Rogers, the only Black editorial assistant at a Manhattan publishing house, is thrilled when Hazel joins the office, until anonymous notes start appearing on her desk telling her to leave.
The Sellout
A Black farmer in Dickens, a Los Angeles neighbourhood that has been quietly wiped off the map, sets out to put it back, by reinstating slavery and segregating the local school.
Small Great Things
Ruth Jefferson, a labour and delivery nurse with twenty years' experience, is barred from caring for a newborn because his parents are white supremacists, and when the baby goes into distress while she is alone with him, she is charged with his death.