Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books released by CLMP members in October 2026.
Trio House Press | October 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-949487-80-0
“Structured around the rhythm cycle of Indian classical music,” these poems “grapple with questions of identity as a girl becoming a woman, as well as a non-citizen living between homes, between countries.”
The Cosmos and Me: New and Selected Poems by Lucille Lang Day
Trio House Press | October 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-949487-77-0
“In these poems that span over fifty years,” Day “invites the reader to consider the larger questions of existence and meaning alongside the small joys of the everyday.”
Ink & Ribbon Press | October 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9946216-2-2
This collection “brings together three major narrative poems by British poet Jan Noble—works that have lived across performance, film, theatre, and recording—and presents them together for the first time as a unified poetic work.”
Tupelo Press | October 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961209-69-5
In this poetry collection, Tadmor “considers the role of language—from conceptual framework to vast storehouse of history … in shaping the self, ultimately revealing our agency within a grammar and syntax we did not choose.”
Trio House Press | October 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-949487-75-6
In this debut poetry collection, Weir “maps the delirious landscapes of addiction” and “chronicles the mix of memory and mythology concocted between last call and first light.”
A Bad Deal in Mormon Land by T. I. M. Wirkus
Type Eighteen Books | October 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8993351926
In this novel, a medium in 1908 must “join an ill-conceived commune founded by some fellow trans ex-vaudevillians, or take on a high-paying but mysterious job offered by a religious extremist in Salt Lake City.”
Unfinished Wilderness by Jason Heroux
Feed Dog Books | October 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-77214-263-1
The poems in this collection “explore the growing struggle to feel at home in a world where global concepts of shelter and belonging remain scarce” and “celebrate an upsurge of resistance against the already-gone.”
Blood Clot Banana Bag by Billeh Nickerson
Anvil Press | October 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-77214-262-4
This poetry collection centered on Nickerson’s experience being hospitalized with blood clots “delves into perceptions of luck and fortune, but also grief and survivor’s guilt, and the privilege of universal health care.”
Fonograf Editions | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-964499-76-5
This debut poetry collection “catalogues transness and desire in daydreams and real dreams and distraction, reimagining queer obsession in elegies and lyric sequences.”
The Case of the Caprice of Lost Time by Rune Christiansen
Translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson
Book*hug Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-77166-992-4
According to Liz Johnston, this novel follows “a woman visiting her father in the wake of her mother’s death” as she “pieces through the roles we play, the masks we wear, and the fluidity of memory.”
vertebrae by Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz
Rescue Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 9798988683940
This debut collection is a “translingual poetic diptych written in the aftermath of explosive colonial contact, from within capitalism’s cold twilight calculations” in which Cruz “reorients us to freefall.”
Sundress Publications | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-951979-97-3
“In an unflinching feminist reclamation,” Doe’s tarot deck–inspired poetry collection “rewrites each card’s colonial symbolism with Cherokee history, cosmology, and worldview.”
The Taste of Rain in Buenos Aires by Will Dowd
Etruscan Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 9798990767881
This short fiction collection “reveals how dreams, like books, can become portals to other worlds—wild, untamable places where the impossible is married to the everyday and even exile can become a form of homecoming.”
There’s a Monster in the Lake: The World as a Fantastical Place by Laura Fernández
Translated from the Spanish by Alexis Almeida
Graywolf Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64445-419-0
In this book-length essay, Fernández “travels to the Scottish Highlands to investigate the legend of Nessie and develops a perspective on humanity’s perpetual and sometimes destructive need to ‘discover.’”
Lying Perfectly Still by Laura Fish
Feminist Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-55861-372-0
“Tangled in the knotted web spun by corrupt colonial outposts and the instability they breed,” an aid worker in Eswatini “bears the consequences of uncovering inconvenient secrets” in this novel.
The Authority of Hunger by Ruth Goring
Fernwood Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-59498-246-0
According to Cynthia R. Wallace, this poetry collection “limns family legacies, juxtaposed migrations, generations of marriage and motherhood, and the haunting accountabilities of a global age.”
Something That Helps by Mona Høvring
Translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickon
Book*hug Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-77166-980-1
This novel set in a small town in western Norway is “an intimate and stirring coming-of-age and sexual awakening story of a young woman following her own path to destruction and reconciliation.”
Bellevue Literary Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 9781954276628
In this novel exploring “extreme privilege, global inequality, and the power of emerging technology,” main character Nick “settles for the relative ease of a well-paid job captaining a luxury yacht, but it leaves little time for his seven-year-old daughter Natalie.”
Bruja’s Nest by Brenda LaTorre
Creature Publishing | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-951971-57-1
In this debut horror novel, a woman working as an indentured servant “realizes she can secure a place as the lady of the house: with a spell from the local bruja, she can trick their naive son into getting her pregnant.”
12 Women + Under a Volcano by Svava Jakobsdóttir
Translated from the Icelandic by Esja Alyssa Matich
Open Letter | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-960385-58-1
The stories in this new edition of Jakobsdóttir’s work “provide a powerful insight into Icelandic reality and strangeness, while simultaneously reflecting the multifaceted experience and complex relationship between the individual and society.”
Motherhood, and the Places Between by Jacqueline Kolosov
Iron Oak Editions | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9896084-6-1
According to Sam Meekings, this collection of essays “asks vital questions about community and responsibility, most pertinently about the challenges of raising a child in a dangerous, hostile and rapidly-changing world.”
Graywolf Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64445-417-6
In this collection of poetry and visual art, Long Soldier “examines what it means to be in community, to be in relation with family, nation, history, and language.”
Can’t Climb a Mountain in a Ball Gown by C. O. Moed
Pink Trees Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-970691-06-1
According to Judith Lee Herbert, this poetry collection is “an intimate journey through an inner landscape, from rough beginnings, through beds and bars on the Lower East Side, to maturity, self-acceptance, and true love.”
University of Pittsburgh Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6840-5
This poetry collection is a “journey of severance, faith, and womanhood across continents,” creating a “dazzling record of a Muslim girl’s becoming bracketed by the oil boom in the Arabian Gulf.”
Bountiful: Growing Up with Geraldine Page by Angelica Page
Three Rooms Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-953103-75-8
This memoir by Geraldine Page’s daughter is the “first book about the legendary artist, presenting a one-of-a-kind look at her body of work and private life, with insider stories of her stage and film career.”
Objects of Desire: Stories by Adam O’Fallon Price
Autumn House Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63768-122-0
This debut short story collection is “filled with people driven by restless longings and unattainable desires—pushed to act by needs only half-understood—all the while picking up unintended bedfellows and conspirators.”
The Garlic Eaters by Madison Safer
Somewhere | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961814-36-3
“Rooted in Jewish experiences of diaspora,” this illustrated children’s book “is a story for young readers about home, loss, and what it means to belong.”
Wool Moon by Zachary Schomburg
Black Ocean | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-965154-27-4
The poems in this collection achieve “delightful confusion, turning the ordinary and the everyday on its head and finding light and curiosity in all they touch.”
About the House by Stacy Szymaszek
Rescue Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 9798988683933
“Drawing on journal writing, folk poetics, prayer, and bibliomancy,” Szymaszek’s poetry collection “explores the intimacies of sharing space with human, plant, ghost, and animal others.”
In the Hands of the Other by Hendrik Taatgen
Vine Leaves Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-279-1
“Set against the backdrop of Israel tightening its grip on Gaza,” this novel follows three people who “are confronted by an indifferent world that responds to their efforts with a blank stare.”
See You In the Mail by Jamez Terry
Generous Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 9798998759659
“Set in the underground zine scene of the early 2000s and on the rocky, moody coast of Maine,” this novel is “a cozy queer romance about the radical intimacy of being truly seen.”
feel recordings in the evershift by Edwin Torres
Wave Books | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 9798891060487
This collection of poems “investigates ecology and the body as fields of perception, seeking to record this felt world and allow the reader a chance to roam within their own recordings.”
Translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter
Zephyr Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-938890-40-6
In this collection of poems, Vancu “writes from the perspective of the Hungarian Jewish poet Miklós Radnóti, who was murdered by Nazis during a forced march in May 1944 and dumped in a mass grave.”
Aloha is Endangered by Tamara Wong-Morrison
Bamboo Ridge Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-943756-16-2
The poems in this collection “express a youthful activist’s alarm and anger at bearing witness to the changes in her beloved community as the economic priorities of the islands shifted from the sunsetting sugar plantations to the booming tourism industry.”
The Star Cabins by Sara Wainscott
Rescue Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 9798988683957
In this book-length poem, the speaker “morphs between selves: writer, mother, reader, daughter, drifter, lover, and witness while questioning the limits and obligations of each.”
Desire Lines: A Memoir by Kristen Millares Young
Red Hen Press | October 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63628-500-9
In this memoir-in-essays, Young “excavates her matrilineage and the submerged histories of the divine feminine, blending personal narrative, mythology, and cultural critique to reclaim women’s voices.”
What Flesh Inherits by J. Scott Brownlee
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | October 8, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-68003-473-8
This poetry collection is a “meditation on home, identity, belief, and the ways in which small-town Texas culture has shaped Brownlee’s own origin story, as well as the experiences and stories of the friends and family members in the town where he grew up.”
A Brief History of Accidental Inventions by Dorsey Craft
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | October 8, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-68003-477-6
This collection of poems “chronicles the speaker’s freefall into postpartum depression against the backdrop of American gun culture and the repeal of Roe v. Wade,” confronting “challenges of embodiment and violence.”
The Executioner’s Blade by Andrew Knighton
Wizard’s Tower Press | October 8, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-917950-42-8
“When Lena Sturm, the city executioner, learns that she executed an innocent priest, she sets out to find the real killer and bring them to justice” in this fantasy novel.
The Executioner’s Realm by Andrew Knighton
Wizard’s Tower Press | October 8, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-913892-99-9
This collection of short stories is “set in the world of the Executioner,” featuring “a range of characters … including kraken-riding pirates, scheming courtiers, and a child meeting her first dragon.”
Wizard’s Tower Press | October 8, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-917950-39-8
In this anthology of fantasy short stories edited by Roz Clarke and Joanne Hall, “the threats will be modern, but the resolution will be rooted in the strange and fabulous mythological history of Wales.”
Hub City Press | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 9798885740807
The poems in this debut collection “explore the multifaceted and often contradictory nature of Southern culture and values through the lens of food, whether at a meat-and-three or a taquería.”
Hackenfeller’s Ape by Brigid Brophy
Dalkey Archive Press | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-62897-673-1
In this republished novella “written almost a decade before the first animal was sent into outer space,” Brophy “meditates on the human tendency towards violence and self-alienation.”
Dalkey Archive Press | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-62897-671-7
This novel, first published in 1969 and featuring a new introduction by Katherine Packert Burke, is a “gender-bending satire, as fresh and thought-provoking today as it was on its original publication.”
Translated from the French by Susanna Lang
Book*hug Press | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-77166-996-2
“By imploring us to listen to the chorus of the trees,” this poetry collection “offers the hope that we will protect our shared home and envision a collective future in which all people can live in dignity.”
Noemi Press | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-955992-73-2
This collection of poetry “addresses the (im)possibility of talking about beauty in America without addressing whiteness,” and “asks if, perhaps, family is the first commodification of the body.”
The Fixed Hours by Kortney Garrison
Fernwood Press | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-59498-251-4
This poetry collection “invites the reader into moments of attention where the consolation of the natural world opens the door to revelation” and traverses “history and folklore to reveal a deeper kinship with ancient narratives.”
This Is What Happens When Women Read by Julianna Glasse
Spiegel and Grau | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1966302346
In this memoir, Glasse “writes of her very public and painful split from both the church and her husband—the self-hatred, depression, shame, and suicidal impulses … and, finally, her path to self-discovery and purpose.”
REDWORK by Laurie Ann Guerrero
Autumn House Press | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63768-124-4
“Interwoven with images of the author’s intricate redwork embroidery,” the poems in this collection “explore reproductive justice, violence, gender dynamics, internalized sexism, and mothers and mothering.”
Under an Indiana Sky by Lynne Hugo
Blank Slate Press | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-966103-06-6
This novel “portrays the spreading devastation of rural crime” in a “gripping story of fractured families, addiction, unbearable grief, and the fragile threads that desperate survivors weave together to fight back.”
Red Hen Press | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63628-497-2
According to Kathleen Caldwell, this novel about “women at life-stage crossroads” takes place “at the end of the Cold War on an American base in West Germany, where the fear of nuclear war is a reality.”
Miracle Grow Of The Mind by Carol LaHines
Regal House Publishing | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64603-770-4
In this novel, a family “must confront how they are living and decide which therapies—everything from Mel Finkelstein’s sensory reintegration sessions to pediatric neurologist visits—are worth the emotional toll.”
Assembly Line Sculpture by Xu Lizhi
Translated from the Chinese by Eleanor Goodman
Zephyr Press | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-938890-39-0
This collection of Lizhi’s posthumously released poems is a “searing indictment of globalization, capitalism, labor relations, and the dark underside of technology development and manufacturing.”
The Hummingbird by Matt Longabucco
Nightboat Books | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64362-328-3
This poetry collection “hovers and darts toward ever-more attenuated spaces of enlivenment and connection in New York City and beyond, filching lyric possibilities from the shadows of indignity and dread.”
Tall, Grass, Girl by Tanis MacDonald
Book*hug Press | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-77166-994-8
In this poetry collection, MacDonald “makes no apologies and pulls no punches, taking us on a journey through adoption and assault, to subsequent escapes, and eventually, into full-feathered survivor joy.”
Slant Books | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63982-239-3
“Moving fluidly between inherited form and contemporary lyric,” the poems in this collection “bring formal intelligence to bear on questions of faith, desire, and the sources of true freedom.”
A Wild Estate: Twilight Years in the African Bush by Davir Muirhead
Catalyst Press | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-960803-60-3
This memoir reflects on when Muirhead and his wife “traded a manicured coastal home for a cottage deep in the South African bush, just outside Hoedspruit—the country’s self-styled safari capital.”
Grownfolk Blues: A Musical in Poems by Jae Nichelle
Host Publications | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-972756-00-3
“Inspired by the queer Southern blues artists of the 1920s and 30s,” this poetry collection “follows a character named You, a queer Black woman who is frequently crushed beneath the weight of societal demands.”
Catalyst Press | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-960803-55-9
This novel following a New Yorker’s move to Africa “explores the vagaries of modern-day Zambia, a cross-cultural marriage, and an unusual alliance.”
Rough Beast by Adrian Van Young
Black Lawrence Press | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-62557-222-6
In this crime novel, “Percy LeBlanc, the lead singer and guitarist of up-and-coming New Orleans black metal band, Bethlehem, is brutally murdered after a disastrous performance on the last stretch of an even more disastrous tour.”
The Hamlet Called America by Khrystia Vengryniuk
Translated from the Ukrainian by Dmytro Kyyan and Kate Tsurkan
Sandorf Passage | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 9789533516066
This novel centered on a Ukrainian village creates a “portrait of eccentric characters living, loving, and losing together” and “captures what can happen when the perceived independence of isolation becomes a vulnerability.”
Heartstopping by Theresa Huttlinger Vigour
Vine Leaves Press | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-277-7
In this memoir, Vigour is “armed with a dating profile and a stubborn determination to live fully again” and plunges “into the bewildering, hilarious, exhilarating, and sometimes terrifying world of online dating.”
Translated from the Hebrew by Shira Atik and Evan Fallenberg
New Vessel Press | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-954404-43-4
In this novel, “Elisheva Fogel is accused of embezzling millions from the think tank she directs” as “old and new grievances surface, media scrutiny intensifies, romances inflame, and it’s hard to know who to trust anymore.”
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay
Rose Metal Press | October 13, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-941628-39-3
“With original craft essays, exercises, and examples,” each contributor in this nonfiction anthology edited by Heidi Czerwiec and Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh “offers reflection and instruction on how lyric essays can be constructed and what makes them unique.”
Acre Books | October 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-968209-06-3
Set twelve years after a 2006 shooting in an Amish schoolhouse, this novel “explores the long-reaching ramifications of tragedy through the imagined lives of three women.”
Magic Show by Dean Bartoli Smith
Codhill Press | October 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-949933-36-9
Smith’s poems “weave personal history with cultural memory, invoking landscapes from Baltimore to Italy, from amusement parks to seaside towns, revealing how places live on in the imagination.”
Crying My Best by Angelica Esquivel
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | October 16, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-68003-491-2
Esquivel’s debut poetry collection “brims with emotional urgency and that delves into the complex, often hidden histories of the poet’s Midwestern Mexican American family.”
Visceral by María Fernanda Ampuero
Translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle
Feminist Press | October 20, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-55861-373-7
In this collection of essays, Ampuero “traces her memories of colonizers and exiles, parents and childlessness, lockdown relationships and lost innocence, fatphobia, mental illness, and writing as a practice for surviving all of it.”
Nightboat Books | October 20, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64362-321-4
In this debut poetry collection, An “stages a fabulated K-pop universe, complete with boy band LIL BANG and girl group The Pink Blossoms, alongside lyric poems and prose meditations that code-switch between Korean and English.”
Memory of a Girl by Aozora Brockman
Bull City Press | October 20, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-949344-76-9
In this narrative poetry chapbook, “a young poet journeys to Japan to spend a month caring for her beloved grandmother, who is battling dementia,” where she “grapples with the reality and terror of memory loss.”
Poem Fire: New and Selected by Frank X. Gaspar
Autumn House Press | October 20, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63628-512-2
The poems in this collection “meditate on longing through an attention to the world’s smallest gestures—an attention that is not mere sentimentality but an act of resistance against erasure and disappearance.”
Huddled in the Night Sky by Don Hogle
Fernwood Press | October 20, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-59498-250-7
In this poetry collection, Hogle “navigates the desire for companionship and connection in all its euphoria, joyful rewards, tentative explorations, and inevitable loss and disappointment.”
Mason Jar Press | October 20, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-951853-25-9
This debut collection of flash fiction stories is “by turns a lyrical celebration of queerness and an exploration of family and loss, often through a lens of magical realism.”
Songs in a Time of Confinement by Rashmy
Translated from the Tamil by Nedra Rodrigo
trace press | October 20, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-06-937042-6
“Displaced by war and haunted by the landscape he treasures,” Rashmy “insists on the work of memory to resist the erasures of violence and time” in this bilingual collection of poetry and visual art.
The Passenger by Dale Martin Smith
Wave Books | October 20, 2026
ISBN: 9798891060494
In this poetry collection, Smith “subtly guides the experience of embodied but unsettled subjectivity, questioning the dominance of Western idealism and what it means to contend with national identity through recollection.”
Wizard’s Tower Press | October 22, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-917950-44-2
In this science fiction novel, “Ben Benjamin and Cara Carlinni defied the megacorporations and saved a colony, but now they are wanted criminals.”
The Storm-Forged Throne by Joel Cornah
Wizard’s Tower Press | October 22, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-917950-46-6
“The Pirate Lord Mothar has reigned over the seas for years, and Rob is his last undefeated foe” in this science fiction novel.
Ace Theory: An Essay in Fragments About Asexuality by Ryan Fitzpatrick
Book*hug Press | October 27, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-77166-990-0
In this book-length essay, Fitzpatrick “tangles with the trenchant knot of compulsory sexuality, putting a squeeze on the many pressures that make asexual people feel like they simply don’t fit.”
The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber by Jay Gao
Nightboat Books | October 27, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64362-329-0
This poetry collection is an “inventory for dreaming treely, dispersed across a common(s)place of grafting and cruising, racial and queer desires, diasporic entanglements and renewal.”
As Wind Rounds Sandstone, As Ice Sections Schist by H. L. Hix
Salon des Refusés | October 27, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961834-14-9
“In a time of perpetual war and post-truth discourse,” this poetry collection acts as a “testimony to the inextinguishable possibilities of freedom and beauty in the imperfect world we share.”
I Drag My Sorrow by His Collar by Hanaa Ahmad Jabr
Translated from the Arabic by Jennifer Jean and Wadaq Qais
Black Ocean | October 27, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-965154-23-6
The prose poems in this debut collection “engage with what it’s been like to be a woman and live in Iraq during the last two decades, particularly amid battles with the Islamic State and other dangerous entities.”
School for Runaways by Erik(a) Jonah
Black Lawrence Press | October 27, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-62557-215-8
The poems in this chapbook follow “students and a teacher (once a troubled youth themself) seeking glimmers of human connection amidst the housing crisis, the Trump presidency, and the often harsh realities of survival.”
A Broken Russia Inside Me by A. Molotkov
Trail to Table Press | October 27, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-966644-04-0
In this memoir, Molotkov “makes the decision to emigrate and, with $343 in cash, must build a new life in the United States while the Soviet Union collapses and Russia is claimed by increasingly ominous leaders.”
The River of Blessings by David Marquis
La Reunion | October 27, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64605-462-6
This book of essays is a “lyrical meditation on the unpredictable movements of life and the stream of blessings that come in their own, unpredictable time with the pursuit of goodness.”
Upflow by Diego Gerard Morrison
Split/Lip Press | October 27, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-952897-52-8
The short stories in this collection are centered on water in Mexico City “through surrealist and historical romps spanning the Spanish conquest, the subsequent desiccation of the lake, as well as modern stories warning of the near future.”
Fernwood Press | October 27, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-59498-253-8
In this collection, Poston “marries poetic skill and spiritual awareness, weaving religion, faith, relationships, doctrines, and values into a tapestry of compelling poetry.”
A Carnival of Crime: Murder, Mischief, and Malice in 1890s Spartanburg by Betsy Wakefield Teter
Hub City Press | October 27, 2026
ISBN: 9798885740821
This true-crime book “captures a South Carolina county’s most violent decade—a time when bullets felled a mayor, a police chief, and a beloved bookseller, each in separate shocking incidents.”
Clemente Between the Worlds by J. L. Torres
Arte Público Press | October 30, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89375-040-9
This speculative novella following Roberto Clemente in the afterlife “transcends the athletic feats of a baseball legend to demystify the man and his legacy amid the larger issue of Afro-Puerto Ricans in history.”
Christos Anesti by Sylvie Baumgartel
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | October 31, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-68003-489-9
In this poetry collection, Baumgartel “takes beautifully rich textures of art, history, and mythology and melds them with raw images of pain, trauma and environmental devastation.”
Dive into Love by Michael Méndez Guevara
Piñata Books | October 31, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89375-044-7
This young adult novel centered on a high school tennis player “deals with difficult real-world problems, including the impact of social media, juggling extracurricular activities, and relationships with family and friends.”
King of Marbles / El rey de las canicas by Mimi Luna
Translated into the Spanish by Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny
Piñata Books | October 31, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89375-033-1
This bilingual children’s novel is “a tender story about learning to adapt, the treasures we carry across distance, and the memories that stay with us—shaping who we are wherever we go.”
Pesky Roots / Raíces fastidiosas by Jackie García-Morales
Translated into the Spanish by Rosarito Rodríguez-González
</bPiñata Books | October 31, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89375-045-4
According to Publishers Weekly, this bilingual book for middle-grade readers is an “exploration of Puerto Rican identity” and “an empowering story about one tween’s attempts to connect with and embrace her heritage on her terms.”
Arte Público Press | October 31, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89375-043-0
This novel following a woman who becomes dependent on an “autonomous and intimate” AI program is about “ambition, intimacy, authorship, and the dystopian risks of a present we already inhabit.”
