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“Liminality” as a book category gathers works that dwell in thresholds—physical, psychological, cultural, or metaphysical—where characters, communities, or realities are suspended between states and identities. These books trace transitions and rites of passage (adolescence to adulthood, home to exile, life to death), explore borderlands and uncanny spaces (hotels, shorelines, night highways, airports), and probe moments of rupture such as grief, migration, or transformation. Whether literary realist or speculative (magical realism, gothic, horror, slipstream, surreal), their hallmark is ambiguity: porous boundaries, shifting rules, and meanings negotiated rather than neatly resolved. Expect dreamlike or fragmented structures, a mood that oscillates between wonder and unease, and thematic challenges to binaries like self/other, human/machine, sane/mad. Liminality titles can be fiction, memoir, or essay, united by an attentiveness to the charged in-between where change happens.

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