+ First book in a series with the same protag throughout
Academia
- Pages For You by Sylvia Brownrigg
- My Education by Susan Choi
- If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
- *Real Life by Brandon Taylor
AIDS Crisis
- The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara
Cozy Mysteries
- Hither, Page by Cat Sebastian (Historical Romance)
Crime Fiction (Detectives/PIs)
- *The Adventures of Isabel by Candas Jane Dorsey +
- The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith +
- Fadeout by Joseph Hansen +
- Bury Me When I’m Dead by Cheryl A. Head +
- The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka +
- The Little Death by Michael Nava +
- Death Trick by Richard Stevenson +
- Murder on the Rocks by J.S. Strange
Espionage/Spy Fiction
- Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht
Found Family
- Stray City by Chelsey Johnson
Grieving
Hollywood
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Psychological Thrillers
- Temper by Layne Fargo
Rural
- Cottonmouths by Kelly J. Ford (Ozarks)
- Sugar Run by Mesha Maren (Appalachia)
Sexual Awakening
- In at the Deep End by Kate Davies
Theatre
- Temper by Layne Fargo
Thrillers
- Light Before Day by Christopher Rice
Toxic Relationships
- In at the Deep End by Kate Davies
Travel
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Wartime
- Regeneration by Pat Barker
- The Charioteer by Mary Renault
- The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
