Holiday Gift Guide 2026

Poetry
Fady Joudah

Finalist for the 2026 National Book Awards

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year

“No one work of art can do justice to a people, nor call sufficient attention to slaughter in progress, but Joudah’s fifth collection, the National Book Award finalist, Exhib…

Poetry
Ada Limón

A New York Times Notable
Featured on NPR’S “Fresh Air”
A Los Angeles Times “Most Anticipated”
 

“Startlement is a book of rare treasures. With lyrical mastery and intimate storytelling, Limón’s poetry reveals new ways of paying attention. This powerful…

Nonfiction
Helen Whybrow

The National Bestseller, Now in Paperback!
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Winner of the Vermont Book Award
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
Featured on NPR’s Fresh Air and PBS NewsHour
A Globe and Mail “Best Book of the Year”

Set in Vermont’s…

Poetry
Fady Joudah

Finalist for the 2026 National Book Awards

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year

“No one work of art can do justice to a people, nor call sufficient attention to slaughter in progress, but Joudah’s fifth collection, the National Book Award finalist, Exhib…

Poetry
Ada Limón

A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Reads Selection
A 2024 NPR “Books We Love” Selection

Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of fifty…

Poetry
Sean Hill

“How big is a home?”

“What is space without reaching?”

“You ever think about being remembered?”

Posing questions that belie their simplicity, Sean Hill’s new collection is rooted in our shared history, lived experience, and a speculative future. It…

Fiction
Debra Magpie Earling

Bold, passionate, and more urgent than ever, Debra Magpie Earling’s powerful classic novel is reborn in this new edition.

Poetry
Beth Piatote

An exquisite debut poetry collection exploring the way Nez Perce language embodies the inseparable connection of land, sound, and spirit.

Drawing its title from the Nez Perce word for ocean, distant water explores the mysterious process through which…

Fiction
Makenna Goodman

A fable both blistering and surreal, this is a propulsive, funny, and thought-provoking novel about a woman in isolation, whose mind—fueled by capitalism, motherhood, and the search for meaningful art—attempts to betray her.

Poetry
Marilyn Hacker

Over the course of her celebrated fifty-year career, Marilyn Hacker has continuously proven to be a timely, fearless, and lauded poet highly skilled in a wide variety of forms—most famously, the sonnet. Transitions is her first volume consisting…

Poetry
Rajiv Mohabir

From acclaimed poet and scholar Rajiv Mohabir, a brilliantly crafted retelling of the ancient Ramayan that valorizes the epic poem’s queer heart.

Rajiv Mohabir first learned of the Ramayan from his grandmother while sitting on his parents’ brown-tiled…

Poetry
Max Ritvo

The poems of this debut collection are dispatches from chemotherapy beds and hospitals and the loneliest spaces in the home. They are relentlessly embodied, communicating pain, violence, and loss—and yet they are also erotically, electrically attuned…

Fiction
Zineb Mekouar

In an ancient Moroccan apiary, a young boy’s inheritance of bees is endangered by climate change, family secrets, and the silence surrounding grief.

High in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, surrounded by valleys once rich with lavender and thyme…

Poetry
JJJJJerome Ellis

A polyphonic new entry in Multiverse, JJJJJerome Ellis’s Aster of Ceremonies beautifully rewrites history, creating a world that blooms backward, reimagining what it means for Black and disabled people to have taken, and to continue to take, their…

Poetry
Keith S. Wilson

Finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award

Radiant with a tenderness that is only achieved through close attention, these poems offer witnessing and formalistic exploration as well as a unique cosmology that is made ever more expansive by blurred…

Poetry
Max Ritvo

The poems of this debut collection are dispatches from chemotherapy beds and hospitals and the loneliest spaces in the home. They are relentlessly embodied, communicating pain, violence, and loss—and yet they are also erotically, electrically attuned…

Inappropriate Behavior
Fiction
Murray Farish

A transatlantic journey with a subversive, vaguely threatening bunkmate; a student obsessed with a famous actress; a socially isolated couple who find themselves unable to resist their deviant sexual urges. In these stories, characters teeter on the…

Nonfiction
William Souder

In the century and a half since John James Audubon’s death, his name has become synonymous with wildlife conservation and natural history. But few people know what a complicated figure he was—or the dramatic story behind The Birds of America—as…

Poetry
heidi andrea restrepo rhodes

An Autostraddle Most Anticipated

“Epic, kaleidoscopic and unapologetically crip: this is a book that sings the multitude in revolutionary new ways.”—People

A fearless, expansive collection that blurs the boundary between body and poem, wielding a…

Poetry
Elizabeth Metzger

A collection of “oracular, crystalline, and utterly original” poems wrestling with a life’s shifting social structures and the multifaceted totality of the self (Maggie Millner).

Elizabeth Metzger’s third collection traces both holding on and letting…

Poetry
Erika Meitner

These poems are deeply generous to the reader, serious and playful, alchemizing and liberating.”—Maggie Smith, author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful and Goldenrod

The seventh collection by award-winning poet Erika Meitner, Assembled Audience e…

21 | 19: Contemporary Poets and the North American Nineteenth-Century, edited by Kristen Case and Alexandra Manglis
Nonfiction
Alexandra Manglis and Kristen Case

21|19 offers a re-reading of the “American Renaissance” and new possibilities for imaginative critical practice today.

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Poetry
Fady Joudah
From one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians.

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