Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in October 2025 from CLMP members.
Earth & Earth-like Planets by Devaki D. Devi 
Abode Press | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9900598-7-0
This short story chapbook “hums with the steady pulse of Indian culture as diasporic youth create new worlds amid the weight of family expectations, shifting social norms, gender roles, and economic pressure.”
Something Small of How to See a River by Teresa Dzieglewicz
Tupelo Press | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946482-82-2
“Through the weaving of documentary poetics, first-hand accounts, dialogue, and lyric,” the poems in this collection “tell the story of co-running a school at the Ocethi Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock.”
Wayfinding: A Memoir by Renee Gilmore
Trio House Press | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781949487626
“Told through a series of car trips and postcards from the road,” Gilmore’s memoir “maps a route toward healing, acceptance, and hope, with stops at Waffle House and the Monaco Grand Prix along the way.”
Crossing the Line by Andrey Gritsman
Červená Barva Press | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-950063-87-1
According to Ilya Kaminsky, in this poetry collection “the perspective of a foreign language gives one a distance that allows one to see things with precision that is almost eerie.”
Translated from the Korean by Brother Anthony of Taizé
Trio House Press | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 1949487512
Ho-seung’s poetry collection “explores human existence through an interconnectivity to nature and the cosmos.”
Girl in a Forest by Elline Lipkin
Trio House Press | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781949487626
According to Victoria Chang, these “list-making poems in fugue quietly accumulate agency, one phrase at a time.”
Three Metamorphoses: Novellas in Verse & Prose by Amit Majmudar
Orison Books | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949039-62-7
This trio of novellas “recasts and transforms foundational stories from Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism in verse and poetic prose.”
1000 Pieces of Time by Michael Minassian
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-36-2
The poems in this collection “weave fleeting encounters, centuries-long love stories, lingering grudges, and moments of unexpected clarity into a surreal cloth grounded in verisimilitude.”
Radiator Press | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7328145-7-8
According to Marie Buck, this poetry collection “registers all the hours we’ve lost to working; it also registers the continuous urge to want more from life than just sustaining oneself with a paycheck.”
Sing Me a Circle: Love, Loss and a Home in Time by Samina Najmi
Trio House Press | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781949487480
In this essay collection, Najmi “navigates the process of forging her identity as a professor and mother” while “her extended family inspires, haunts, and stirs her to action.”
Alice James Books | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781949944891
According to Publishers Weekly, this poetry collection “interrogates interiority, motherhood, and the choices of famous female figures” as Parks “memorably evokes the textures and intricacies of life on earth.”
Long Eyes by Khrystia Vengryniuk
Translated from the Ukrainian by Dmytro Kyyan and Kate Tsurkan
Lost Horse Press | October 1, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9890965-4-1
This collection of poems is “both a confession that pours forth like rain from the heavens and a lingering hallucination that refuses to release its grip upon having subsided.”
Scare Tactics by David Milofsky 
Serving House Books | October 2, 2025
ISBN: 9781947175693
According to Larry Watson, Milofsky “demonstrates, as the best writers can, that the truth of most lives is often complex and nuanced” in this novel set during 1950s McCarthyism.
I Guess All We Have is Freedom by Genpei Akasegawa
Translated from the Japanese by Matthew Fargo
Kaya Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1885030726
“In spite of their suburban settings,” these short stories by Japanese avant-garde writer Akasegawa are “are more radical than the most cosmopolitan contemporary art.”
The Book of Rain by Abū Zayd Al-Anṣāri
Translated from the Arabic by David Larsen
Wave Books | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9798891060364
The earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words, Abū Zayd’s “lexicography of rain is simultaneously an academic, archival, and poetic pursuit.”
Book*hug Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9781771669603
“Combining scientific investigation with empathy, humour, and artistic curiosity,” this book is a “groundbreaking addition to an urgent dialogue about mental health.”
A Field Guide to North American Trees by Garrett Ashley
Good Printed Things | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9798992199338
Each poem in this chapbook is named after a tree, “forming a rich landscape where roots, rings, and branches become a way of understanding human connection, transformation, and renewal.”
Sacred & Perishable by Carissa Natalia Baconguis
Nine Syllables Press | October 7, 2025
This debut poetry chapbook “follows friends Dian, a medical student, and Carlos, a shapeshifter as they challenge concepts of time, self, and the other.”
Last Night at the Disco by Lisa Borders
Regal House Publishing | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9781646036448
This novel set in 1977 is a “bold exploration of ambition, fame, and the often messy intersections of friendship and betrayal in the music world.”
Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters
Middle West Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9781953665348
In this anthology edited by Randy Brown, over fifty writers “join to deliver fresh visions and explorations regarding the ‘forgotten’ terrain and deep recesses of the American Midwest.”
Dead Things and Where to Put Them by Marina Carreira
CavanKerry Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960327-13-0
This poetry collection “provides a nuanced look at how grief manifests in everyday life, especially in the face of isolation and uncertainty.”
Translated from the Turkish by Alev Ersan, Amy Spangler, and Mark Wyers
Deep Vellum | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9781646054015
“From the Byzantine Empire to the twentieth-century Turkey of Erbil’s experience,” this novel-in-verse “searches urgently for a way to escape recurrent cycles of suffering, all while preserving hope in the smallest acts of kindness.”
Bigger: Essays by Ren Cedar Fuller
Autumn House Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9781637681084
This collection of essays “invites us to imagine a more generous way of being in the world, drawing on Fuller’s experiences as a daughter, sister, mother, teacher, and patient.”
The Museum of Future Mistakes by James R. Gapinski
BOA Editions | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960145-86-4
In their collection of short stories, Gapinski “considers our physical relationship with our own bodies, how we process love and loss, and the fragility of identity amid moments of personal crisis.”
A Place in the World by Bill Gaythwaite
University of Pittsburgh Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9780822948766
According to Manuel Muñoz, the stories in this collection are about “facing up to the ghosts of our mistakes and our fears, and how our secrets refuse to let us forget who we were and what we’ve done.”
The Green Lives by Sara Gilmore
Fonograf Editions | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964499-45-1
According to m.s. RedCherries, Gilmore’s debut poetry collection “finds feelings in the abandon and serves as evidence of her wisdom and place as one of poetry’s greats.”
A Nasty Business by A. R. Goldsmith
Catalyst Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9781963511192
In this novel, a woman in 1970s England “must decide whether she wants to continue her safe village life or whether to pursue a shadowy world of espionage and secrets in a first for the British government—an all female unit of code breakers and communication specialists.”
A Dangerous Business by A. R. Goldsmith
Catalyst Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9781963511376
In the second installment of the Nicollette Beverley Spy series, “Nicollette goes undercover once again—completely alone in a remote Atlantic archipelago off the coast of South America.”
Closed Season by Monika Herceg
Translated from the Croatian by Marina Veverec
Sandorf Passage | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9789533515311
In this poetry collection, Herceg uses hunting symbolism to “explore new ways to express the horrors women the world over have been, and are continually, forced to deal with in a painfully patriarchal world.”
Graphic Rage: Comics on Gender, Justice, and Life As a Woman in America by Aubrey Hirsch
Split/Lip Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-952897-46-7
“From the impossible standards of beauty to the very real dangers of living in a legislated body,” this collection of graphic essays “channels frustration into fearless humor and incisive critique.”
The Natural Order of Things by Donika Kelly
Graywolf Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-359-9
This poetry collection is an “ode to companionship with people, animals, and our planet, and reveals the reparative power of intimacy.”
Who Killed One the Gun? by Gigi Little
Forest Avenue Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1942436676
Little’s debut novel “pays homage to the radio classics of the forties and fifties while investigating themes of greed, sexism, and the consequences of unchecked power.”
Chagos Archipelago by Tom Lutz
Red Hen Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-427-9
According to Kirkus Reviews, this novel is a “profoundly disturbing tale about the callous disregard for the biodiversity of land masses like Chagos that are often exploited in get-rich-quick schemes.”
Vampires at Sea by Lindsay Merbaum
Creature Publishing | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9781951971229
According to Foreword Reviews, Merbaum’s book is a “carnal horror novella that parodies queer culture and tackles a failing relationship’s impact on a vampire’s sense of self.”
Translated from the Norwegian by May-Brit Akerholt
Dalkey Archive Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9781628976281
The stories in Poppy’s debut collection of fiction “explore moments of labyrinthine intimacy with a cold intensity that proves impossible to forget.”
Quantum Nightmares by Jose M Rodriguez
Catalyst Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 9781963511215
This collection of science fiction stories “contains the nuggets of bizarre psychological truth that help explain today’s divisive United States, where myth collides with belief and fact is hard to find.”
No Rhododendron by Samyak Shertok
University of Pittsburgh Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN : 9780822967484
“Part elegy, part poetry of witness, and part poetry of exile,” this collection is a “lament to the poet-speaker’s father and fatherland and a grief-wrought love letter to his mother and mother tongue.”
Sundress Publications | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1951979812
In these poems, Vorreyer “charts the ways loss impacts the body and our perceptions of self, and how we are to keep on living.”
The High Heaven by Joshua Wheeler
Graywolf Press | October 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-357-5
“Suffused with the absurdist history of American space travel and the wide-open landscapes of the Southwest,” this novel “chronicles a larger-than-life adventure of one extraordinary woman who, despite tragedy, never loses sight of redemption.”
Girl With A Bullet by Anna Malihon
Translated from the Ukrainian by Olena Jennings
World Poetry Books | October 9, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-35-2
Malihon’s English-language debut “gathers daring, resilient, open-eyed poems written before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion.”
trace press | October 10, 2025
ISBN: 9781775256786
Edited by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran, this experimental collection features editors, poets, and translators reflecting “on Tamil’s trajectory through classical poems, labour songs, feminist and Dalit poetry and poems of war and displacement.”
A Different Cloth: Reimagining Faith & Feminism by Dania Suleman
Translated from the French by Nouha Gorani-Homad
Ronsdale Press | October 10, 2025
ISBN: 9781553807346
This book-length essay “offers a fresh perspective that acknowledges the empowering role religion can play in a woman’s life, while exploring meaningful ways to reconcile gender equality with freedom of religion.”
The Map of the World by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Wake Forest University Press | October 13, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-943667-17-8
In this collection, “there are pilgrimages to holy wells, bishops and bookbinders, and poems in conversation with writers and artists, from Andrew Marvell, Milton, and Joyce to Irish painter Nano Reid and stained-glass artist Helen Moloney.”
JackLeg Press | October 13, 2025
ISBN: 9781956907209
According to Kiki Petrosino, the poems in this collection “thrive at the intersection of mystery and modernity, creating ‘a carriage of entanglements’ and ever-deepening questions around collective notions of goodness, beauty, and the divine.”
Translated from the Bulgarian by Christopher Buxton, Zornitsa Hristova, and Rusana Bardarska
Open Letter Books | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960385-45-1
“Rich with personal narrative and intellectual rigor,” this cross-genre book is a “deeply engaging reflection on how we experience time, choose our paths, and leave traces of our existence in an increasingly globalized world.”
Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic by Christopher Caldwell
Neon Hemlock | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-966503-14-9
According to Publishers Weekly, “Caldwell brings his all-Black, mostly queer protagonists to vivid life while exploring the collision of the natural and the supernatural” in this short story collection.
the past is a jean jacket by Cloud Delfina Cardona
Hub City Press | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-88574-059-3
“Reminiscent of being in a heavily postered room with rock music blasting,” Cardona’s debut poetry collection is a “time capsule of a 90s queer, Latinx teenhood.”
A Harvest of Furies by Hayden Casey
Lanternfish Press | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 9781941360910
This retelling of Aeschylus’s Oresteia “takes an unflinching look at how foreign war scars the intimate landscape of home–not just in the days of ancient Greek tragedy but in every time and place.”
Creature Publishing | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-965684-47-4
This horror novel “explores medical trauma through Irish folklore, asking ‘Can a sick woman ever be trusted?'”
A Fast Horse Never Brings Good News by Cary Fagan
Book*hug Press | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 9781771669511
According to Deborah Willis, this short fiction collection “is for all of us who crave stories about interconnectedness, illuminating our attachments to each other and the more-than-human world.”
Caramelle & Carmilla by Jewelle Gomez and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Aunt Lute Books | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 9781951874094
This book contains both Le Fanu’s 1872 novella and Gomez’s Caramelle, which “follows two vampires who arrive at a way station on the Underground Railroad not to stalk their prey but to seek sanctuary.”
Earthly Conditions: Selected Poems by Birhan Keskin
Translated from the Turkish by Öykü Tekten
World Poetry Books | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-36-9
This poetry collection, Keskin’s first to be published in the US, “explores the loss and longing of the human condition in the context of its separation from the non-human world.”
Turtle Point Press | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 9781885586285
“Whether conversing with ghosts or the living, with animals or plants,” the poems in this collection are “concerned with transformative relationships with and within the ‘natural world.”
My Lips, Her Voice by L. L. Madrid
Creature Publishing | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 9781951971311
According to Kirkus Reviews, this novel is a “sharp and atmospheric whodunit and a queer ghost story packed full of twists that will leave readers guessing.”
Translated from the Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo
Two Lines Press | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-953103-66-6
This novel set during a catastrophic flood in the Netherlands examines “what happens when the delicate balance of nature tips in favor of the sea.”
Translated from the French by Cole Swensen
Green Linden Press | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961834-10-1
This poetry collection “captures something both subtle and insightful about quotidian struggle and the human spirit—to wit: its refusal to give in, even when wracked by regret, grief, and a tendency to brood.”
Lost in the Forest of Mechanical Birds by Christian Moody
Dzanc Books | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 9781938603372
This collection of short stories “delights in the absurd and dystopian, weaving in themes of climate change, surveillance, privacy, and technology that coalesce into a profound statement about the mysteries of the human experience.”
Circling Toward Nightfall by Dennis Must
Red Hen Press | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-284-8
According to Jack Remick, this posthumously released novel is a “literary reconciliation of the mind/body dualism that has plagued humans from the beginning on our search for origins.”
Mercurial, or Is That Liberty? by Rachelle Rahmé
Fonograf Editions | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964499-57-4
This debut poetry collection is “the work of a dual citizen—dual in conscience, dual in political allegiance, in exteriority, in friction with gender’s dualism, aspiration’s dualism, and the ache of the ethical.”
North Atlantic Books | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 9798889842774
In this book, Rao “illuminates the essential—but often unseen—relationships between caste and gender in yoga.”
Georgia Watson and the 99 Percent Campaign by Sara Shacter
Regal House Publishing | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 9781646036356
According to Beverly Patt, “readers will be rooting for Georgia as she attempts to balance her scientific ambitions with the needs and feelings of those around her” in this children’s novel.
Running on Rooftops by Andrea L. Stout
Blackwater Press | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 9781735774756
This novel follows a woman who begins teaching in China as she “seeks to make sense of her new life across the Pacific, with clashing worldviews and blended cultures,” and “finds herself building relationships as varied as the landscapes around her.”
All Girls Be Mine Alone by Sophie Strohmeier
Joyland Editions | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-992025-81-1
“Set among high school music students and opera fanatics in Vienna,” this novella “spins a tale of obsessions, monsters, and romantic conquest.”
Peace, Love and Haight: A Psychedelic Thriller by Max Talley
Three Rooms Press | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 9781953103666
In this mystery novel, a gallery owner in the summer of 1969 “becomes an unlikely player in a deadly game—hunted by the mafia, courted by the cops, and risking everything if his hippie friends learn the truth.”
We Are Made of Scars and Starlight by Nicole Zelniker
Vine Leaves Press | October 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-173-2
Zelniker’s book is a “tender, heartbreaking novella about mental health, disability, and queer desire in the heart of the modern city.”
“You’ve Got Michael” by Dan Beck
Trouser Press Books | October 15, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9990487-0-7
This memoir tells “the story of the high-stakes battle to save Michael Jackson’s career and market his 1995 greatest hits album, as told by the record company executive who was the closest to him.”
The Accidental Courage of Our Lives by Victoria Melekian
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | October 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-38-6
According to Sarah Freligh, Melekian “mines the quotidian moments of a life and unearths a vein of gold in poems that are at once transcendent and wise” in this collection.
Range of Motion by Brian Trapp
Acre Books | October 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946724-96-0
“Transforming perceptions of disability and interdependence through tender attention to detail,” this debut novel told from multiple perspectives is “wrenching, beautiful, and sharply comic.”
Barrow Street Press | October 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962131-11-7
“In these poems of family, love, and longing,” Zywicki “captures the experience of sonic and existential rupture, the wounds sustained in an enduring struggle with faith.”
Translated from the German by Ann Cotten and Anna-Isabella Dinwoodie
World Poetry Books | October 16, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-37-6
Originally published in 1977, this debut collection “concocts a potent and volatile concrete poetry of structuralist social satire disrupted by flares of poetic whimsy drawn from the depths of the subconscious.”
White Pine Press | October 17, 2025
ISBN: 9781949641851
This book-length poem is an “oblique ode” to Pablo Neruda’s The Book of Questions, centering “unknowing and wonder as twin forces central to self-articulation, social witnessing, and survival.”
The Midnight Work by Jennifer Moxley
Flood Editions | October 20, 2025
ISBN: 9798985787498
This poetry collection is a “meditation on the fragility of memory and love in the increasingly mediated post-Covid world of polarized politics and climate change.”
Stolen Mountain by I. M. Aiken
Catalyst Press | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9781963511284
In this novel, “EMS Captain turned sleuth Brighid Doran suspects that all is not what it appears on the surface at The Branston Club—a swanky ski lodge being built in her rural Vermont town.”
Chapel Road by Louis Paul Boon
Translated from the Dutch/Flemish by Adrienne Dixon
Dalkey Archive Press | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9781628975192
This novel originally published in 1953 follows “a young girl named Ondine and her brother Valeer, born into poverty at the turn of the century in the industrial city of Aalst, Belgium.”
The Gilded Butterfly Effect by Heather Colley
Three Rooms Press | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9781953103628
This debut novel provides a “hilarious but unflinching look at today’s U.S. college campus experience, from the highs and lows of the non-stop party scene to the absurdities of modern psychiatric care, the implications of prescription drug abuse and campus sexual assault.”
Unit 33: A Collection of Thriller Crime Short Stories by Dennis Dalton
Catalyst Press | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9781963511307
In these nine stories, a private intelligence gathering team “serves as a catalyst for solving crimes related to the banking industry, often working with government intelligence or foreign spy agencies such as Mossad.”
Werewolf Movie by Stephen St. Francis Decky
Frayed Edge Press | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9781642510683
This novel set in the late 1980s South Jersey music scene “stands as a treatise on the ferocity and urgency of creativity as well as the predatory aspects of the music industry.”
Graywolf Press | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-361-2
Delsohn’s short stories portray “the joys and failures of community in a city and a time that has branded itself a radical queer utopia but proves much more complicated in reality.”
Rescue Press | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9798988683926
The poems in this collection “are funny and forceful, disrupting temporal and structural expectations with an insistence on a single word’s potential to shift the mood or rev a line’s engine.”
University of Pittsburgh Press | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9780822967583
“Rich in metaphor, affable and self-deprecating,” the poems in this collection “shine a spotlight on regret, infidelity, the feminine ideal, fear of death, and fear of insignificance.”
Vine Leaves Press | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-0-6454365-9-4
This short story collection “captures a vivid image of Jerusalem, past and present, through the eyes of its diverse inhabitants, specifically historical and contemporary migrant women artists.”
No Longer at This Address by Andrew Hemmert
University of Pittsburgh Press | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9780822967538
The poems in this collection centered on the American West “visit bison ranches in the Rocky Mountains, converse with a collapsed satellite, and find complicated joy among wildfire ash and lost dogs.”
If You Leave by Margaret Hutton
Regal House Publishing | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9781646036417
According to Molly McCloskey, this novel’s “evocation of wartime Washington, DC, captures brilliantly the texture of everyday life, both the limbo of waiting for the war’s end and the pinched quality of women’s lives.”
Rescue Press | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9798988683919
In Jaffe’s short stories, “characters struggle to be perceived by others as they perceive themselves—as an authentic artist, a ‘good white person,’ a legitimate parent.”
The Future Is Collective by Niloufar Khonsari
North Atlantic Books | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9798889841975
Khonsari’s book is a “practical guide to transforming work culture for nonprofits and social-justice organizations, using principles of collective governance and participatory democracy.”
Groceries by Nora Claire Miller
Fonograf Editions | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964499-54-3
According to Tracie Morris, this “daring, demanding, experimental and meditative” poetry collection “encourages conceptual thought about the performance space of the two dimensions.”
Lookout Books | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9781940596587
Wade’s poetry “reckons with complexities of racial identity, masculinity, recovery, and spirituality, revealing the narrative and psychic evolution of a poet who has found himself in the language.”
Restless Books | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9781632064097
“What begins as a scary almost-accident turns into a road-trip adventure, and then a lasting friendship between a truck driver and the moose who joins him for a ride” in this picture book.
The Maestro and Her Protégé by Kate Whouley
Blackwater Press | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9781963614121
This novel follows Hannah Schaeffer, “a fictional trailblazing conductor, as she navigates the challenges of breaking barriers in a male-dominated industry.”
Disco Fries & Scenic Drives: Life in the Garden State
Read Furiously | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9781960869227
In the third volume of the New Jersey anthology series, fiction, essays, photography, comics, and poetry “all come together to remind us of the wonderful and weird tales that make up the Garden State.”
The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe by Lauren D. Woods
Autumn House Press | October 21, 2025
ISBN: 9781637681091
In this collection of short stories, “childhood memories ripple through adult lives, and characters test the limits of their self-created realities.”
The Scent of Man by Tadeusz Dabrowski
Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Arrowsmith Press | October 23, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9915254-5-9
This poetry collection “moves intimately through spaces sacred and profane, suggesting we are never fully in one world or the other but ever adrift in between.”
At the Same Time by Wang Jiaxin
Translated from the Chinese by John Balcom
Arrowsmith Press | October 23, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9915254-6-6
Wang’s poems “invite readers into a space of multiple cultural convergences as East and West engage in a luminous poetic dialogue.”
Arrowsmith Press | October 23, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9915254-7-3
These poems are “haunting meditations, of ruptured narratives and bruised bodies,” that “celebrate resilience, and call for transformation of both self and society.”
The Love You Take: A Novel by Robert Wilson
Warbler Press | October 23, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-965684-80-1
Set in the 1970s, this coming-of-age novel “follows Andy and a small circle of clever, idiosyncratic, and highly engaging friends as they journey from youth to adulthood.”
Wilderness Mother: A Memoir of 13 Years Off the Grid by Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski
Ronsdale Press | October 27, 2025
ISBN: 9781553807308
The thirtieth-anniversary edition of Barnhardt Kawatski’s 1995 memoir includes new chapters “that expand on her relationship with Jay, his mental health challenges and the break-up of their marriage.”
The Torah in the Tarot by Stav Appel
Ayin Press | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9781961814301
In this booklet accompanying a tarot deck, Appel “has presented a landmark contribution to the field of Tarot studies—revealing that when we perceive the Tarot through a Jewish lens, we can, at long last, recognize the Torah hidden in the Tarot.”
The Resettlement of Vesta Blonik by Denise Smith Cline
Regal House Publishing | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9781646036509
Set during the Great Depression, this debut novel tells “the story of two strong-hearted strangers, bent but not destroyed by grief and financial destitution.”
Unexploded Ordnance by Catharina Coenen
Restless Books | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9781632064059
“In imaginative prose that interrogates the past with a poet’s curiosity and a scientist’s pen,” this book of essays “seeks to answer how we are shaped by the stories we inherit.”
Red Hen Press | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-362-3
According to Miriam Gershow, “what begins as a story about Niall, a lapsed monk now corralling a classroom of rowdy teenagers, soon transforms into an examination of making oneself whole in the face of a troubled past.”
Autumn House Press | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9781637681107
“Rooted in the tradition of the road trip narrative,” this poetry collection “reimagines the American epic through the lens of a contemporary woman’s journey.”
The Five Blessings of Ifá by Gabrielle Felder
North Atlantic Books | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9798889841043
Felder’s book “explores how Black communities across the diaspora draw strength from ancestral wisdom, family, community care, and mutual aid, using the principles of Ifá—a West African spiritual tradition—as a guiding framework.”
Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff
Dalkey Archive Press | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9781628976267
In this novel, DeWitt and Gridneff “present a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books,” combining “countless years of literary history, Scientology, dream analysis, linguistics, email correspondence, screenshots, and graphs into a novel of unparalleled scope and vision.”
Translated from the Norwegian by David M. Smith
Deep Vellum | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9781913744243
Høghaug’s first work of fiction is a “peasant story, a western novel, a dream quatrain, an adventure, science fiction and a black comedy about violence, crime, guilt and atonement.”
Young and Hungry by Bryan Kromm
Catalyst Press | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9781963511345
This novel is a “modern parable of the triumphs and follies of parenthood, the motivations of becoming and being, and the wisdom of living a full spectrum life.”
Before the Mango Ripens by Afabwaje Kurian
Dzanc Books | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9781951971342
“Set against the backdrop of 1970s Nigeria teetering between post-colonial dependency and self-rule,” this novel “examines the enduring themes of faith, disillusionment, and the search for belonging.”
Book*hug Press | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9781771669450
In this poetry collection, MacPherson “unpacks the impossible weight of gendered expectations and strips back limiting definitions consistently thrust upon women.”
Last Radiance by Karen Malpede
Vine Leaves Press | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-176-3
This memoir “invites readers into the underworld of grief and dying, offering lessons in presence, remembrance, and the urgent need to confront a failing medical system with courage and care.”
Invited to the Feast by Bonnie Naradzay
Slant Books | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9781639822058
The poems in this collection “immerse the reader in the experience of interactive poetry classes, laments for mentors and family members who have gone, and far-flung travels.”
A Stranger Comes to Town by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
EastOver Press | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-958094-63-1
In this novel, an amnesiac man’s “search to discover his true identity exposes how even the most ordinary aspects of our lives are often extraordinarily felt.”
Mother, Daughter, Augur by Mary Simmons
June Road Press | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9874328-7-7
This debut poetry collection “brings together found elements from nature, folklore, mythology, ballet, and oral tradition, crafting a strange, kaleidoscopic beauty and complicating inherited definitions of femininity.”
women & roosters by Fenn Stewart
Book*hug Press | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 9781771669474
Stewart’s book-length poem “expertly winds its way through topics as far-reaching as climate change, nature, trail-running, settler nationalism, motherhood, love, loss, and illness.”
That’s How It Works: 30 Years of Fiction from Hub City Press
Hub City Press | October 28, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-88574-064-7
Edited by Katherine Webb-Hehn, this anthology of fiction is “both a celebration of three decades of publishing from the margins and a testament to the transformative power of community in creating literature.”
Of the Emperor’s Kindness by Chaz Brenchley
Wizard’s Tower Press | October 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-917950-13-8
According to Melissa Scott, this fantasy novel is “beautifully written, with a fascinating world, a deceptively simple plot, and complex and compelling characters.”
The Green Man’s Holiday by Juliet E. McKenna
Wizard’s Tower Press | October 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-917950-10-7
This novel following a supernatural family is a “modern fantasy rooted in the ancient myths and folklore of the British Isles.”
Other Shane Hintons by Shane Hinton
Burrow Press | October 31, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-941681-35-0
This collection of short stories “follows eight Shane Hintons (not including the author) through the forking paths of a life, where visceral Florida realism meets the surreal and the absurd.”
Terms of Venery, Revised by Paula J. Lambert
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | October 31, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-44-7
According to Amy Newman, the speaker of these poems “moves through ecological collapse and the quiet devastations of ordinary life with a voice that is lyrical, sharp-edged, and deeply compassionate.”
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | October 31, 2025
ISBN: 9781962405409
“Incorporating research, interviews, memories and myth,” this poetry collection centered on working-class Buffalo “weaves a world of those who persist, even thrive, though their environment, both internal and external, may not have their best interests at heart.”
The Voice of Blood by Gabriela Rábago Palafox
Translated from the Spanish by M. Elizabeth Ginway and Enrique Muñoz-Mantas
University of Tampa Press | October 31, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59732-223-2
In this short story collection, Rábago Palafox “reimagines gothic traditions through a feminist lens, using the vampire to show women as empowered rather than victimized.”
