Hot News This Week
July 16, 2026
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| We’re thrilled to celebrate major anniversaries for our friends at Haymarket Books and Conundrum Press!
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| Festival Stars, Board Books, and More Kids’ Book Buzz
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- Of Yu Akinaga’s Toast, Sam Ackerman of First Light Books (Austin, TX) says, “This irresistible, toast-shaped board book will be stacked in my kids’ section upon arrival.”
- Ban Ban’s Bakery by Elena Hiroko Magee is “genuinely one of the cutest and most engaging picture books I’ve ever had the pleasure to read,” according to Lillie Reimer of Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI).
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| Now’s the Time to Grow Your Own Vegetables...
In Your Garden, out in September, is “Fortier’s first book geared to gardeners,” but “in just over 20 years, Mr. Fortier has popularized his method of small-scale, highly efficient market farming, or market gardening—human-scale agriculture on a largely direct-to-consumer model,” writes Roach. “His two how-to manuals, The Market Gardener and The Winter Market Gardener, have sold more than 300,000 copies; 10,000-plus farmers have taken his professional grower training, and his YouTube channel has more than 120,000 subscribers.”
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| | The Tunnel
by William Gass
Deep Vellum / Dalkey Archive Press • April 2026 • 9781628976366
Back in stock!
“[The Tunnel] chronicles the personal and professional obsessions of a Hitler studies professor, and does so by means of an unquenchable, volcanic torrent of language. It has an unquestioned place on the shortlist of modernist, postmodernist, and post-postmodernist masterpieces, and its examination of the fascist impulse is more relevant now than ever.” — James Crossley, Leviathan Bookstore (St. Louis, MO)
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| | The Black Box: Stories
by Mata Kastrisiou, trans. Kostas Kaltsas
AK Press / ARB Editions • September 2026 • 9781849356411
“A collection of dreamlike short stories that traverse worlds both familiar and fantastical. . . . Although each story stands on its own, they are bound together by a dark, dreamlike atmosphere. I flew through this!” — Sumaiya Nasir, Market Block Books (Troy, NY)
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| | The Given World
by Melissa Harrison
Biblioasis • October 2026 • 9781771967365,
“I read this because I heard it was ‘like if Robert Macfarlane wrote fiction.’ Can confirm! It’s absolutely gorgeous, astute, surprising, and entirely absorbing. More, please.” — Christie Olson Day, Gallery Bookshop (Mendocino, CA)
“Exquisite. Mesmerizing. . . . A haunting novel reminiscent of Under the Milk Wood and The Overstory.” — Maeve Noonan, Northshire Bookstore (Manchester Center, VT)
“It’s as if your favorite nature writer (Kimmerer, Muir, Leopold) wrote fiction.” — Nath Mayes, Carmichael’s Bookstore (Louisville, KY)
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| | Bonobo
by You-Jeong Jeong, trans. An Seon Jae
Creature Publishing • September 2026 • 9781951971519
“Bonobo is a fast-paced, haunting, psychological, suspenseful mad-dash in which a primatologist and a bonobo become trapped in each other’s minds and strive to find a way out with the help of a wanderer who finds himself in a suicide forest.” — Savannah Laughlin, The Country Bookshop (Southern Pines, NC)
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| | Friends and Lovers
by Nolwenn Le Blevennec, trans. Madeleine Rogers
Peirene Press • September 2026 • 9781908670915
“A piercing account of friendship—its ups, downs, ruptures, and repairs. . . . For readers who loved Normal People and crave literary, character-driven sagas about the long arc of female friendship, this one will stay with you.” — Ashley Redwood, Roundabout Books (Bend, OR)
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★ “Gorgeously illustrated . . . brief, engaging passages explore over 25 topics—ranging from black cats to four-leaf clovers to fingernails—offering entertaining musings about where, when, and how associated superstitions got started.” — Booklist
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| | Floodgate
by Matthew Neill Null
Blair • August 2026 • 9781958888766
★ “A fully immersive experience of rural Appalachia. . . . Null brilliantly captures the push-pull of pressure to maintain the status quo against the flame of structural transformation.” — Booklist
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| | Luna and the Night
by Maylis Daufresne, illus. Ian de Haes, trans. Katy Lockwood-Holmes
Floris Books • October 2026 • 9781782509783
★ “Stunning . . . a luminous look at the importance of confronting fears—and imaginative guidance for doing so.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “An endearing adventure, brilliantly enhanced with subtle reminders to consider environmental preservation and protection. . . . A whimsical wonder.” — Kirkus Reviews
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| | New Digital Review Copies
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| FICTION
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz (Transit Books)
ABA, SCIBA, MPIBA, PNBA, SIBA, GLIBA, NAIBA, MIBA, NEIBA, and Indie Press Top 40 (#3) Bestseller
We Were Forbidden by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz (Transit Books)
Indie Press Top 40 (#9) Bestseller
Stitched by Eli McCann (Torrey House Press)
Bookshop.org Bestseller
NONFICTION
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“Intimate, mischievous, incisive . . . each novella stages a personal catastrophe, but the deeper preoccupation is with the aftermath: obedience that outlives authority.” Jacqueline Harpman’s We Were Forbidden, translated by Ros Schwarz (Transit Books), was reviewed by The Believer. The New York Post also ran a piece this week about how Harpman went viral 14 years after her death, noting that I Who Have Never Known Men has sold nearly 600,000 copies.
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“Ada is one long burst of energy. It’s a book designed to be read in a single sitting. . . . [It] reads like Bernhard.” Mark Haber’s Ada (Coffee House Press) was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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