Sing You Home tells the poignant story of Zoe Baxter, a music therapist who has spent a decade longing to start a family. Her dreams shatter when she suffers infertility issues, leading to the heartbreaking end of her marriage with her husband, Max.

As Zoe navigates the complexities of her new life, she unexpectedly finds love again with Vanessa, a school counselor. Together, they envision a future filled with hope and the possibility of raising a family. However, Zoe's past is not entirely behind her. Max, now influenced by newfound religious beliefs, challenges Zoe's right to her embryos, leading to a gripping court battle.

Jodi Picoult masterfully explores themes of love, identity, and what truly defines a family. Sing You Home is a powerful narrative that questions societal norms and the rights of individuals to choose their path.

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch. That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities: Paris, Berlin, and Vienna—a world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous.

The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some of the most memorable in all of fiction. There is Guido Volkbein, the Wandering Jew and son of a self-proclaimed baron; Robin Vote, the American expatriate who marries him and then engages in a series of affairs, first with Nora Flood and then with Jenny Petherbridge, driving all of her lovers to distraction with her passion for wandering alone in the night; and there is Dr. Matthew-Mighty-Grain-of-Salt-Dante-O'Connor, a transvestite and ostensible gynecologist, whose digressive speeches brim with fury, keen insights, and surprising allusions.

Barnes' depiction of these characters and their relationships has made the novel a landmark of feminist and lesbian literature. Most striking of all is Barnes' unparalleled stylistic innovation, which led T. S. Eliot to proclaim the book so good a novel that only sensibilities trained on poetry can wholly appreciate it.

Now with a new preface by Jeanette Winterson, Nightwood still crackles with the same electric charge it had on its first publication in 1936.

Annie Proulx has crafted some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many, "Brokeback Mountain" stands as her masterpiece.

Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together while working as a sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.

Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that's what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations, this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it.

In gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx explores the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world's violent intolerance.

At the age of eight, Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five-hour period of time. During the following years, he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to believe that he may have been the victim of an alien encounter.

Neil McCormick is fully aware of the events from that summer of 1981. Wise beyond his years and curious about his developing sexuality, Neil found what he perceived to be love and guidance from his baseball coach. Now, ten years later, he is a teenage hustler, a terrorist of sorts, unaware of the dangerous path his life is taking. His recklessness is governed by idealized memories of his coach, memories that unexpectedly change when Brian comes to Neil for help and, ultimately, the truth.

Affinity is a captivating tale set in the grimmest jail of Victorian London, Millbank prison. The story follows Margaret Prior, an upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt. As part of her rehabilitative charity work, she begins visiting the women’s ward of Millbank.

Among the murderers and thieves, Margaret encounters an enigmatic spiritualist, Selina Dawes, who was imprisoned after a séance went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman deeply disturbed. Initially skeptical of Selina's gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions.

The narrative is a spellbinding ghost story, a complex historical mystery, and a poignant romance with unexpected twists. Sarah Waters brilliantly evokes the sights and smells of a moody and beguiling nineteenth-century London, crafting a tale that explores themes of confinement, betrayal, and the supernatural. Margaret's fascination with Selina leads her to concoct a desperate plot to secure both Selina's freedom and her own.

When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, determined to persist in the routines of his daily life.

An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way. His internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness.

Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the true textures of life itself.