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"Human dependence" as a book category explores the many ways people rely on others, systems, substances, technologies, and environments—examining dependence as a psychological, social, economic, medical, ethical, and ecological condition. It includes nonfiction investigations of addiction, caregiving, welfare systems, medical and technological reliance, and climate vulnerability, as well as fiction that turns dependence into character conflict or speculative premise (e.g., societies built around a life-sustaining device, codependent relationships, or communities reshaped by scarcity). Central themes are vulnerability and agency, power imbalances and mutuality, the costs and comforts of reliance, and the pathways to resilience, recovery, or reform. Readers can expect empathetic portraiture, critical analysis, and moral complexity: books that ask who benefits from dependence, who is harmed, and how individuals and societies negotiate interdependence while trying to preserve dignity and autonomy.

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