Candas Dorsey Books in Order

An enslaved girl without memories, a wandering woman searching for her mother, and a wife trapped in marriage inhabit interconnected stories. Their struggles explore identity, inherited cruelty, and the possibility of escaping systems of oppression.

These stories draw together twenty-five years of Dorsey’s short fiction, moving between realistic and slipstream modes. Harsh circumstances and unsettling experiences are presented through closely observed language, bringing contrasting kinds of fictional reality into one collection.

In a conservative future, Morgan inherits a prairie mansion and opens it to people excluded by society. When an alien child joins the household, its development challenges the residents' assumptions about humanity, belonging, and difference.

Across three decades of speculative stories, assassins, stolen children, detectives, and survivors confront disturbing futures. Digital family bonds, transformed cities, and strange creative projects expose the personal costs of violence, technology, and attempts to remake the world.

An unemployed social worker investigates the murder of a friend's granddaughter, drawing on street contacts and an unconventional circle of allies. What begins as a personal favor exposes a larger scheme behind the killing.

After their father's death, intersex teenager Corey faces a mother's demands for medical intervention and ends up in psychiatric care. New friendships, including one with a girl struggling with anorexia, complicate Corey's search for autonomy.

A private investigator's childhood friend, now a famous travel writer, fears a stalker. When that stalker is murdered at a book launch, the sleuth and her companions investigate connections reaching into the writer's past.

The Epitome Apartments’ amateur detective becomes a suspect when the imprisoned killer of her loved ones dies. While defending her inheritance, she also investigates attacks on unhoused neighbors and struggles to hold her damaged community together.