The school for good mothers / by Jessamine Chan: Set in near-future America, The School for Good Mothers introduces readers to a government-run reform program where bad mothers are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence.

Vox / Christina Dalcher: Half the population of the United States has been silenced. This is the story of one woman and what she will do to protect her daughter and herself.

The deluge / Stephen Markley: In 2013 California, environmental scientist Tony Pietrus, after receiving a death threat, is linked to colorful characters, including a young activist who begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.

Elsewhere / Alexis Schaitkin: Elsewhere conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear.

Our missing hearts / Celeste Ng: A story about a 12 year old boy named Noah "Bird" Gardner whose mother, a revolutionary poet is on the run after lines from her poetry are used to oppose a government policy called PACT.

The women could fly / Megan Giddings: A story about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored.

Blue ticket / Sophie Mackintosh: A mesmerizing, refracted vision of our society: In a world where women can't have it all, but are selected as either mothers or workers at the beginning of their adult lives. Is choice the biggest burden of all?

Find me / Laura van den Berg: When a sickness that begins with memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, seems to have an advantage: she is immune.

The memory police / Yoko Ogawa: When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards.

Bannerless / Carrie Vaughn: A murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she's learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society.

A boy and his dog at the end of the world / C.A. Fletcher: The story follows Griz as he takes on a journey to save his stolen dog. It's a post-apocalyptic story on survival, courage, hope, humanity, family, and the importance of being grateful.

Borne / Jeff VanderMeer: In Borne, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict.