#OctoberIsTheNewDecember Holiday Book Recs
Feminist Press ♥️s our local indies!
Here’s a small sampling of holiday suggestions to order now
and support small businesses.
Shop Longfellow Books
The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band by Michelle Cruz Gonzales (PM Press)
The Living Is Easy by Dorothy West (Feminist Press)
Amateur: A True Story about What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee (Scribner)
Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby (Vintage)
Shop Greenlight Bookstore
Black Wave by Michelle Tea (Feminist Press)
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush (Milkweed Editions)
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields (Verso)
Socialist Realism by Trisha Low (Coffee House Press)
Shop Politics and Prose
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman (W. W. Norton and Company)
Temporary by Hilary Leichter (Coffee House Press)
Sula by Toni Morrison (Vintage)
Tender by Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press)
Shop Loyalty Bookstore
Becoming by Michelle Obama (Crown)
How Mamas Love Their Babies by Juniper Fitzgerald, illustrated by Elise Peterson (Feminist Press)
Wounds of Passion by bell hooks (Holt Paperbacks)
Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress by Kara Walker (Rizzoli)
Shop Avid Bookshop
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder (Vintage)
Fiebre Tropical by Juli Delgado Lopera (Feminist Press)
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit)
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Gallery/Saga Press)
Shop Porter Square Books
Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne (FSG)
Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, translated by Frank Wynne (Grove)
The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey (Andy Cohen Books)
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette (New Directions)
Shop The Last Bookstore
When You Ask Me Where I’m Going by Jasmin Kaur (HarperCollins)
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender (Balzer + Bray)
A World Between by Emily Hashimoto (Feminist Press)
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir (Razorbill)
Shop Books Are Magic
A Burning by Megha Majumdar (Knopf Doubleday)
The Names of All the Flowers by Melissa Valentine (Feminist Press)
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (Picador)
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (HarperCollins)