FP Staff List: October is the new December
If you’ve been following the news about global supply chain delays, you know that this year’s holiday shopping needs to happen early! To help you pick out the best books for every reader on your to-gift list, we’ve highlighted some of our favorite bookstores and gathered a selection of our favorite titles from indie presses.
HAPPY BROWSING!
Shop Split Rock Books:
WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF YOUR LIFE by Sung Yim (Perfect Day Publishing)
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
THE INVISIBILITY CLOAK by Ge Fei (translated by Canaan Morse) (NYRB Classics)
COSMOGONY: STORIES by Lucy Ives (Soft Skull Press)
Shop Black Pearl Books:
GUMBO YA YA by Aurielle Marie (University of Pittsburgh Press)
CHRONICLES FROM THE LAND OF THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE ON EARTH: A NOVEL by Wole Soyinka (Pantheon)
SKYE PAPERS by Jamika Ajalon (FP)
DIRECTED BY DESIRE: THE COLLECTED POEMS OF JUNE JORDAN by June Jordan (Copper Canyon Press)
Shop Loyalty Bookstore:
SPIRITS ABROAD by Zen Cho (Small Beer Press)
TERMINAL BOREDOM by Izumi Suzuki, translated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, and Helen O'Horan (Verso)
VARIATIONS ON THE BODY by María Ospina, translated by Heather Cleary (Coffee House)
COUNTERNARRATIVES by John Keene (New Directions)
Shop Square Books:
EM by Kim Thúy (Seven Stories)
AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS by Rivers Solomon (Akashic Books)
SLUG AND OTHER STORIES by Megan Milks (FP!)
EVERY BODY LOOKING by Candice Iloh (Dutton Books for Young Readers)
Shop Changing Hands Bookstore:
STRANGER FACES by Namwali Serpell (Transit Books)
PIRANESI by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
SPELLBOUND: A GRAPHIC MEMOIR by Bishakh Som (Street Noise Books)
HEADS OF THE COLORED PEOPLE by Nafissa Thompson-Spires (37 Ink)
Shop Broadway Books:
FAKE ACCOUNTS by Lauren Oyler (Catapult)
BEING NUMEROUS: ESSAYS ON NON-FASCIST LIFE by Natasha Lennard (Verso)
SONG OF SOLOMON by Toni Morrison (Vintage)
A FORTUNE FOR YOUR DISASTER by Hanif Abdurraqib (Tin House)
Shop Third Place Books:
A BURNING by Megha Majumdar (Vintage)
HAPPY HOUR by Marlowe Granados (Verso)
WIN ME SOMETHING by Kyle Lucia Wu (Tin House)
NEGATIVE SPACE by Lilly Dancyger (Santa Fe Writers Project)
Shop Brilliant Books:
EDGE CASE by YZ Chin (Ecco)
RABBIT ISLAND by Elvira Navarro, translated by Christina MacSweeney (Two Lines Press)
BINTI: THE COMPLETE TRILOGY by Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
TASTES LIKE WAR by Grace M. Cho (FP)
Shop Cafe con Libros:
(H)AFROCENTRIC COMICS: VOLUMES 1–4 by Juliana "Jewels" Smith, illustrated by Ronald Nelson (PM Press)
THE WORKS OF GUILLAUME DUSTAN, VOLUME 1 by Guillaume Dustan, edited by Thomas Clerc, and translated by Daniel Maroun (MIT Press)
SUMMER FUN by Jeanne Thornton (Soho Press)
VOICES OF THE NAKBA: A LIVING HISTORY OF PALESTINE edited by Diana Allan, translations by Hoda Adra and Rayya Badran (Pluto Press)