On Sept. 24, Jhumpa Lahiri’s new Booker Prize-nominated novel, “The Lowland,” will be released on this side of the Atlantic by Knopf in what promises to be a highlight of this most literary season. And yet surveying recent offerings in the bookstores, one can’t help but notice a strange echo reverberating behind the esteemed author.

“Joyland” by Stephen King. “Sisterland” by Curtis Sittenfeld. “Fairyland” by Alysia Abbott. “Jungleland” by Christopher S. Stewart. “Motherland” by Amy Sohn.

Even the world of publishing, it seems, is not immune to the whims of fashion.

“No one wants to be derivative in book-titling,” said Ms. Sohn, an occasional Times contributor whose novel was released in paperback this past summer, “but book titles remain in your subconscious.” She admitted that Joseph O’Neill’s best-selling post-9/11 novel, “Netherland,” which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction in 2009, was a big influence on her choice of titles because it struck a chord with critics and readers and was also a personal favorite.