Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in January 2026 from CLMP members.
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Warbler Classics | January 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-90267-009-4
This new edition of Christie’s 1930 mystery novel includes a detailed biographical note and is a “sharp, funny portrait of small-town life where gossip, jealousy, and murder share the same sitting room.”
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Warbler Classics | January 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-90267-008-7
This Warbler Classics edition of Faulkner’s novel includes a detailed biographical timeline and an essay by Robert Merrill on reading As I Lay Dying as modern tragedy.
Goodbye to All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves
Warbler Classics | January 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-90267-004-9
This new edition of Graves’s autobiography “reproduces the original 1929 text and includes an extensive biographical timeline.”
The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
Warbler Classics | January 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-90267-011-7
Hammett’s 1929 detective novel—published in this new edition with an extensive biographical timeline—is a “razor-edged exploration of deceit, addiction, and the sinister allure of the supernatural.”
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Warbler Classics | January 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-90267-000-1
This edition of Hammett’s 1930 novel about “the coolly self-possessed Sam Spade, a detective whose code is as unforgiving as the city streets he walks,” includes a new introduction by Malcolm Jones.
Zagra Zephyrs by A. A. Telmesani
Tofu Ink Arts Press | January 1, 2026
ISBN: 9781958661291
This poetry collection invites readers to “step into the dazzling expanse of the Zāgra Valley Universe, a realm where the veil between the terrestrial and the celestial is drawn back by the hand of Āyā the Heliopolite.”
Very Good, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Warbler Classics | January 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-90267-006-3
This collection of eleven short stories offers “a lighthearted glimpse into the lives of England’s upper class, highlighted by the clever banter and contrasting natures of Bertie and Jeeves” as well as an extensive biographical timeline.
Palinuro of Mexico by Fernando del Paso
Translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Plaister
Dalkey Archive Press | January 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-62897-563-5
In this novel, del Paso propels his characters “through the real and the imaginary realms of mythology, science, politics, social comment, the arts, advertising and pornography.”
Gnashing Teeth Publishing | January 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-966075-24-0
This hybrid collection is a “compendium of handmade visual poetry collages which thread a narrative of recovery from the long shadow cast by familial and societal trauma.”
Talking with Boys by Tayyba Kanwal
Black Lawrence Press | January 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-62557-179-3
According to Ghassan Zeineddine, Kanwal “explores the diverse range of the Pakistani and Pakistani American experience, as well as the complexities of a Muslim identity” in this short story collection.
Alias Irene by Elisabeth Murawski
Fernwood Press | January 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-59498-192-0
In this poetry collection, Murawski “turns a blazing, unflinching eye toward the moments that shape us—those fragments of childhood, faith, family, and loss that echo long after they pass.”
Finishing Line Press | January 9, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-308-3
“A personal reckoning with a messy past,” this collection of prose poems is a “timely and timeless mix of intergenerational debt, safety, and the danger and durability of the female body.”
Sappho Prompts by Margaret Lee
Finishing Line Press | January 9, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-168-3
In this poetry collection, Lee, “a Greek scholar, has merged with Sappho—first as inspiration, then in deeper communion.”
No Fault of Water by Kelsey D. Mahaffey
Finishing Line Press | January 9, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-307-6
“Written from the shadows of a shared life,” this poetry chapbook “chronicles the author’s journey through a turbulent summer marked by her partner’s alcoholism.”
Lineage by Karen Betz Mastracchio
Finishing Line Press | January 9, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-304-5
According to Courtney O’Banion Smith, Mastracchio “pays and gives intimate attention to the paradoxes and ironies of familial love” in this poetry chapbook.
The Palindrome of the Sun by Veronica Sanitate
Finishing Line Press | January 9, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-306-9
According to Katherine Larson, the poems in this chapbook—“anchored by the 11th-century sundial of Florentine astronomer Strozzo Strozzi”—“become a meditation on celestial and cyclical time, as well as the intimacy of daily rhythms.”
Qasida for When I Became a Woman by Huma Sheikh
Finishing Line Press | January 9, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-168-3
“Set against the backdrop of war-torn Kashmir,” the poems in this chapbook “grapple with the unsolved murder of the poet’s father, the silences of disappearance, and the cultural restrictions placed on a young woman coming of age under military occupation.”
Suddenly Deciduous by Dee Slavutin
Finishing Line Press | January 9, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-302-1
In this poetry collection, “naked truths dose the reader in the author’s sudden journey of aging, nuclear family explosions, reflections on cultural advantages, and animals of any kind.”
Finishing Line Press | January 9, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-305-2
According to Dianne Oberhansly, this chapbook is a “poetic coming-of-age, skillfully picturing a Jewish boyhood as seen through the wise, attentive eyes of manhood.”
The Goddess Fortunes: To Proper is to Die by R. L. Edmondson Vance
Tofu Ink Arts Press | January 12, 2026
ISBN: 978-1958661031
In this hybrid collection of poetry and visual art, Edmondson Vance uses “found words and images; digesting, reconstructing, honoring form and phrase, creating a sacred place for each, and then gluing every one down in its rightful place.”
North Atlantic Books | January 13, 2026
ISBN: 9798889842798
This book is an “indisputable and empowering resource for those navigating symptoms and seeking gender-affirming care during the menopause transition.”
Mean Higher High Water by D. S. G. Burke
Vine Leaves Press | January 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-234-0
This novel follows Nia, whose “fiancé died in the explosion of the world’s first zero-emissions jet, an incident that put a fiery punctuation mark on global climate cooperation.”
Follow This Blood to Find a Dead Thing by Charles K. Carter
Fernwood Press | January 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-59498-200-2
In this poetry collection, Carter explores “various modes of human destruction from the heedless demolition of our planet to the systemic roots of trauma, isolation, and greed.”
Nightboat Books | January 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64362-293-4
This poetry collection “practices mishearing as a bodily reworking of language alongside the poet’s hormonal transition, stretching the upper limits of homophonic translation to unleash the unexpected queer resonances of Louis Zukofsky’s ‘A.’”
Locus of Control: Therapy Poems by Rebecca Herz
Prolific Pulse Press | January 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1962374712
The poems in this collection weave “the clinical language of therapy with the raw emotional undercurrent that rarely makes it into the office.”
There’s No Point in Dying by Francisco Maciel
Translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato
New Vessel Press | January 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-954404-39-7
In this novel set in a favela of Rio de Janeiro, “a gang member runs wildly through the streets not knowing he has only seven minutes left to live.”
Ever Since We Small by Celeste Mohammed
Ig Publishing | January 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63246-176-6
This novel is an “intricately woven tapestry of stories where survival, resilience and self-discovery are passed down through several generations of an Indo-Trinidadian family.”
Nadezhda in the Dark by Yelena Moskovich
Dzanc Books | January 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-938603-51-8
According to Yelena Furman, this novel in verse “brimming with references from Russian and Ukrainian literatures to Alla Pugacheva and the Moscow 1990s gay club scene” is a “poetic disquisition on global history and self-identity.”
As If By Magic by Edgard Telles Ribeiro
Translated from the Portuguese by Kim M. Hastings and Margaret A. Neves
Bellevue Literary Press | January 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-954276-50-5
In this short story collection, Ribeiro “invites us into labyrinthine worlds where what we perceive is only the beginning of the story.”
In the Way of Things by Nicholas Skaldetvind
Fernwood Press | January 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-59498-204-0
In this poetry chapbook, Skaldetvind “invites us on a coastal, irresistibly watery journey that spans from Italy to Greece to California and elsewhere.”
Nocturne: 111 Poems by Georg Trakl
Translated from the German by Daniele Pantano
Black Lawrence Press | January 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-62557-198-4
This collection—which includes two newly discovered poems from “one of the leading figures of the Austro-German expressionist movement during the early twentieth century”—bears “haunting witness to a world devoid of faith, meaning, and hope.”
James Baldwin Smoking a Cigarette and Other Poems by Baron Wormser
Slant Books | January 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63982-217-1
This poetry collection explores “the duality of masculine and feminine, political history, literary progenitors, prophetic voices, and the ways people struggle with the circumstances in which they find themselves.”
Beginning of the Hollow by Albert Mobilio
Black Square Editions | January 15, 2026
ISBN: 9798986037073
According to Forrest Gander, Mobilio includes “riveting observational details, ‘strange turns’ of syntax, understated humor, and a pentathlon of competing diction” in this poetry collection.
The Gardener’s Wife’s Mistress by Cassondra Windwalker
Type Eighteen Books | January 15, 2026
ISBN: 979-8998947742
“Fighting to find a path through the weeds of grief,” in this novel Hayden Hill “meets his wife’s secret connections and becomes involved helping local, homeless teens cast out by their families for choosing to be who they are.”
How to Write a Bench by David Hummon
Finishing Line Press | January 16, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-309-0
This collection of poetry and visual art is a “meditation on creativity itself, asking how pen and brush help attend to life, revealing matters of the heart and spirit.”
Finishing Line Press | January 16, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-312-0
According to Caitlin Doyle, in this collection Miller “explores love, childhood, and religious faith in moving and light-filled poems.”
Finishing Line Press | January 16, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-313-7
“Rooted in personal history but resonant with universal truths,” the poems in this collection “delve into themes of love, family, nature, healing, and the passage of time.”
Collected Father by John Pijewski
Finishing Line Press | January 16, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-310-6
According to Lloyd Schwartz, “these grim and at times darkly comic poems tell the story of a Polish couple and their American sons, in which the appalling horrors of the old world are far from lost in the new.”
The Art of Undoing by Hudson Plumb
Finishing Line Press | January 16, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-315-1
The poems in Plumb’s collection “guide the reader through the strange, luminous terrain of what remains after separation—and what may take its place.”
Weight of Water by Samantha Wallen
Finishing Line Press | January 16, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-314-4
This poetry collection “navigates the terrain of loss—the death of a mother, the foreclosure of home, the vanishing of animal species, and the desecration of the planet.”
Agoodoodaa: Let’s Snare a Rabbit by Miskwaa Anang (Erik Martin Redix)
Hidden Timber Books | January 20, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9873517-3-4
This bilingual children’s book “fosters language-learning in young and old alike, while connecting readers to Ojibwe harvest traditions in a multi-generational setting.”
The River Was Waiting by Cordelia Frances Biddle
Vine Leaves Press | January 20, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-232-6
In this novel set in 1963, a woman “vacillates between hope and fear, struggling to find equilibrium in the midst of a huge, uncaring city.”
Alice James Books | January 20, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-949944-87-7
According to Publishers Weekly, this collection “tells the story of a family’s journey through real and imagined landscapes in poems that engage with violent histories, addiction, the natural world, survival, and hope.”
The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor by Kathryn Cowles
Fence Books | January 20, 2026
ISBN: 9798989978533
This hybrid poetry collection “lays bare the depths of the confines still facing women in Western life, even while we’re told we’re free to choose.”
Black Lawrence Press | January 20, 2026
ISBN: 9781625573001
This collection of short fiction “transports us from the forests of Appalachia to the Sonoran Desert to the glaciers of Iceland, all while exploring the mysteries of what it means to be alive.”
Song for America by Fernando Esteban Flores
Gnashing Teeth Publishing | January 20, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-966075-10-3
The poems in Flores’s collection are “built from lived experience, cultural inheritance, and an unwavering ear tuned to the music of resistance.”
Sundress Publications | January 20, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-951979-87-4
“In poems that capture the complexity of life as a transitioning Xicanx in a tumultuous Texas climate,” this poetry collection “balances the intrinsically human need for connection with the struggle to love oneself.”
The Flying Dutchman by Laurence Klavan
Regal House Publishing | January 20, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64603-671-4
In this novel, a woman “must confront the truth about the man she’s adored for years and the impossible connection that binds them across time.”
Caught in the Light by Layle Keane Chambers
Finishing Line Press | January 23, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-323-6
Chambers’s poetry collection is a “raw and unflinching exploration of a mother’s journey as she watches her son dedicate himself to a life of service as an Air Force pilot.”
In the Photic Zone by Joanne Jacobson
Finishing Line Press | January 23, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-320-5
This prose chapbook “borrows from oceanography the model of the ‘photic zone,’ the top layer of bodies of water, where photosynthesis—the generation of life from light—takes place.”
At The End of My Bones by Naomi Leimsider
Finishing Line Press | January 23, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-322-9
The poems in this collection are an “exploration of the fraught relationship between our fragile, complex human bodies and our time in the world.”
Dreamscape with Absinthe by Elaine Pentaleri
Finishing Line Press | January 23, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-317-5
“With hints of Buddhism, feminism, and a connection with the natural world,” the poems in this collection “deliver a hopeful interpretation of the impermanence and intangibility of this worldly life.”
Also the Gentle World by Robert Morrison Randolph
Finishing Line Press | January 23, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-318-2
Randolph’s collection features poems about “a woman playing dulcimer while an osprey flies in the rain, the sea breaking on stone inside a moth’s wing, and other deep images of intense gentleness.”
face-to-faces by Kristine Esser Slentz
Thirty West Publishing House | January 23, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9987727-1-9
This poetry collection “explores the loft virtual world vis-à-vis the brutal reality, with themes of mental health, technological reliance, polyamory, panic, and scarcity.”
wolf mutter by K. Blasco Solér
Finishing Line Press | January 23, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-319-9
This poetry chapbook was “conceived during a period of maternal grief and a two-year study of the extermination and reemergence of gray wolves in the Southern Rockies.”
Finishing Line Press | January 23, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-316-8
This book of erasure poetry using guardianship renewal papers “disrupts the finality of official language as three women transcend the pages that defined their lives.”
Persona by Aoife Josie Clements
LittlePuss Press | January 27, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-964322-06-3
In Clements’s “electric, nightmarish, intricately layered novel, the impossibility of goodness crowds in upon two young trans women barely surviving on sex work and zero-hours contracts.”
The Water Lilies of Mishipeshu by Karla Cruise
HTF Publishing | January 27, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963452-24-2
In this novel, a “hidden botanical manuscript sparks a centuries-long battle between profit and preservation, leaving a trail of murder, madness and encounters with the supernatural.”
Childless Millennial by Chiara Di Lello
Game Over Books | January 27, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9924550-9-0
“Through a multi-generational dive into her own Ukrainian immigrant family,” Di Lello’s poetry chapbook “wrestles with the choice to be child-free and its thorny entanglements with gender and culture.”
The Banana Wars by Alan Grostephan
Dzanc Books | January 27, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-938603-32-7
This novel set in Colombia in 1990 is “starkly drawn from the true history of Urabá and this period of conflict, including the unseen role of US corporate interests.”
A Reckoning Up Black Cat Hollow by Matthew F. Jones
Regal House Publishing | January 27, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64603-696-7
This novel is a “pulse-pounding crime thriller that weaves together psychological suspense and a gripping mystery, where every step brings Jack closer to a truth he’s long buried.”
She Who Remains by Rene Karabash
Translated from the Bulgarian by Izidora Angel
Sandorf Passage | January 27, 2026
ISBN: 9789533515748
This novel is set in a “rural Albanian village where, to this day, the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini—a collection of archaic laws—looms over the lives of villagers with the same haunting presence of the surrounding mountains.”
Flare Books | January 27, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-960803-37-5
“Murder spawns a hunt through a tangled web of drug gangs, political intrigue, and old apartheid mysteries that criss-crosses the southern tip of Africa” in this thriller novel.
The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes by Tatiana Țîbuleac
Translated from the Romanian by Monica Cure
Deep Vellum | January 27, 2026
ISBN: 9781646054091
This novel is a “complex coming-of-age story unraveling the fragile, complicated, redemptive relationship between a mother and her son.”
Vine Leaves Press | January 27, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-230-2
In this novel set in the village of Robbers Bridge, “the locals turn cold, strange events unfold, and the walls themselves seem steeped in grief.”
Dique Dominican by Ayendy Bonifacio
Unsolicited Press | January 31, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963115-67-3
“With lyrical precision and emotional honesty,” Bonifacio “reflects on the immigrant experience, identity, language, and belonging” in this debut memoir.
I’ll Dress Myself in Wilderness and You by Cynthia Neely
Fernwood Press | January 31, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-59498-195-1
According to John Sibley Williams, this collection is “filled with poems that perfectly balance emotion and intellect, painting intimate portraits of identity, loss, and nature.”
