The catalog, this season

Roughly two hundred titles on the floor at any moment. Below, the shelves as we currently keep them.

Shelf 01

Contemporary fiction

Novels and story collections published in the last five years that we can defend at length.

The Bee Sting
— Paul Murray

The Bee Sting

Novel · 656 pp · Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A large Irish family novel with the propulsion of a thriller and the interiority of Alice Munro. Long, but never wasteful.

Small Rain
— Garth Greenwell

Small Rain

Novel · 320 pp · FSG

A poet in a Kentucky hospital during a heatwave. Greenwell's most patient sentences to date.

Cold Enough for Snow
— Jessica Au

Cold Enough for Snow

Novella · 112 pp · New Directions

A daughter and mother walking through Tokyo in the off-season. Read it in one sitting on a rainy afternoon.

The Rabbit Hutch
— Tess Gunty

The Rabbit Hutch

Novel · 352 pp · Knopf

Formally restless, emotionally exact. A debut that earns every experiment.

Shelf 02

Essay & nonfiction

Books that think out loud, argue with themselves, and change their mind by page 200.

The Rings of Saturn
— W. G. Sebald

The Rings of Saturn

Essay · 296 pp · New Directions

A walking book about the Suffolk coast, silk, herring, and empire. Nothing else reads like it.

The Copenhagen Trilogy
— Tove Ditlevsen

The Copenhagen Trilogy

Memoir · 384 pp · FSG

Three short memoirs, translated from Danish, that read as one long, unblinking sentence about a life.

Bluets
— Maggie Nelson

Bluets

Essay · 112 pp · Wave Books

Two hundred and forty numbered propositions about the color blue, love, and loss. A book to reread.

A Field Guide to Getting Lost
— Rebecca Solnit

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Essay · 224 pp · Viking

The best sustained argument we know for not knowing where you are going.

Shelf 03

Poetry

A small, stubborn poetry section. About sixty titles at a time.

Time is a Mother
— Ocean Vuong

Time is a Mother

Poems · 128 pp · Penguin Press

Grief work of the highest order. Read slowly.

Frank: Sonnets
— Diane Seuss

Frank: Sonnets

Poems · 160 pp · Graywolf

The sonnet stretched, broken, and put back together. A book you will want to hand to someone.

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