books read in June, the highlights are Cassandra at the Wedding and The Orange Eats Creeps. It seems like this month was also very horror themed. 📚✨

book mail from two favorites, Revolving Books online and three new releases from @glacierbaybooks.com. GBB is killing it with their books this year, each has not only interesting story/art but a unique design for each book. Highly recommend both websites! 📚✨

new books I bought during @sevenstories.bsky.social recent sale! The other two are new release from the UK small press isolarii and a new translation from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. 📚✨

new books from @glacierbaybooks.com 📚✨

Just sent all the files for our two Fall titles--both beautiful, slender, debut novels--to the printer. Cannot wait to share them with you all in October!

really cool recent book mail! 📚😎

Don’t miss the first English translation of celebrated Togolese novelist Sami Tchak, by @jmz.bsky.social! Such wonderful work. My thoughts in Asymptote Journal: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/06...

shout out to @glacierbaybooks.com and @starfruitbooks.bsky.social for these recent gems I read, they will be top books read this year. I am also looking forward to upcoming releases, the untimely passing of Star Fruit Books founder Matt Haash last year was such a loss. 📚

I have recently found some great used books at Revolving Books and the Etsy shop Madison Paperbacks. 📚✨

Hockney

sublime new books and a beauty of a vintage paperback from Idle Hands Books on instagram 📚✨

book mail 📚

books read in May, the highlight was a reread of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, it is still my favorite book. I also highly enjoyed Gaskell’s biography on Brontë. I would recommend the others as well. 📚

last used book haul in May was stellar📚

recent used book finds, the famous Canadian bear book and two more books by Can Xue, a writer that I want to read all of her work. 📚✨

thank you Fern Books for an arc of Wishbone by Laia Jufresa, out 9/15! I loved the two books I’ve read from their catalog, Papers is one I have not read yet. Link in reply 📚

new books! 📚

from I Remember by Joe Brainard

new books by women in translation from @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social and @twolinespress.com, I am looking forward to reading these. 📚

It has a cover! 💫 Coming from @semiotexte.bsky.social in September! mitpress.mit.edu/978163590284...

Probably a good day to recommend The Long Form. Briggs is brilliant, covering incredible narrative & conceptual distances in the few turns around the living room it takes to soothe her baby. It's quiet in some ways, explosive in others. #BookSky #MothersDay

Everyone here will need to find their own dinner. Something more pressing just slipped through the mail slot. Beyond excited to read both of these.

two favorite books I have read this year📚

books read in April, all are pretty great and rewired my brain. The first time I have read Anna Kavan and Penelope Mortimer, both were brilliant. Joy Williams still amazes me and Monster by Naoki Urasawa is a masterpiece. 📚✨

upcoming books in translation from @openletterbooks.bsky.social and @twolinespress.com, translated from Spanish and Chinese 📚

new books I bought! 📚✨

I love the recent book mail from Womb House Books, I have wanted to read the STW letters and had to get the poetry anthology. I am also looking forward to the new book from @deepvellum.bsky.social , I have seen rave reviews 📚✨

new books/new editions of older books!📚

Our conversation about Gloria Naylor's terrific THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE is live! onebrightbook.com/2026/04/10/e...

Lots of imprints don’t have a very strong brand identity but when I saw MCD I’d always know I was getting something good and kind of weird. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

In a recent episode of the podcast The Mookse and the Gripes I referred to Hélène Bessette’s outstanding novel Lili is Crying (1953) as “Clarice Lispector on acid, Hilda Hilst on mushrooms, and Ann Quin on molly.” 👀 If you enjoy experimental literature, don’t miss this one.

Happy Easter! Recent used and new book purchases. The last one is a book I really enjoyed in a nice new hardcover. 📚🌸

The Ruined Map by Kobo Abe, tr. E. Dale Saunders, is a missing person detective story with his signature writing of alienation in society and urbanization and just plain weirdness. I look forward to reading more of his books, this the third I have read. 📚

recent books I picked up, I am happy to have a copy of these two by Silvina Ocampo, both are amazing. I also found used editions of translated fiction from Harvill. 📚✨

books read in March, the May Sarton and Andre Lorde were amazing. Mrs. Palfrey, Horse Crazy, and She Who Remains are other highlights and I would highly recommend all of these books. 📚✨

the last four books I’ve read have unintentionally matching covers and are all excellent. The bottom two are first time reading the writers, I will definitely read more.📚

recent used book haul, I was glad to find the Barbara Pym and Colette in these editions. The last two are new books from @deepvellum.bsky.social and @catranslation.org, it has been worth getting their subscriptions. 📚

I found these gems at the Etsy shop BookBang, a lot of vintage Edith Wharton books. Marianne Moore is a writer I have wanted to read and the last book is new to me.📚✨

from The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde (1980), required reading 📚✨

new and used book purchases, recent books by women in translation from @graywolfpress.bsky.social , @ndbooks.bsky.social, and @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. The other are nice editions of two I have wanted to read and the latest from the tiny books UK press called isolarii.

weekend reading 📚

more used books I found on Etsy shop OldBookSource 📚✨

Happy Thursday! @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I got a chance to talk with @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social about unclassifiable books, and I had a great time! Here is our new episode! open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p...

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson has one of the best opening pages.

from Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman 📚✨

“For the first time in English, all the short fiction that Ingeborg Bachmann wrote in her lifetime in a single volume. Available Sep 29, 2026” (!!!) @ndbooks.bsky.social 🔥🔥🙌 www.ndbooks.com/book/the-com...

Sarah Orne's Jewett's A MARSH ISLAND with a conversational afterward from the One Bright Book crew is OUT!

Happy March! 🌼 #SundaySarton It’s time to begin May Sarton’s third book of nonfiction, JOURNAL OF A SOLITUDE. This is one of my favorites & I’m excited to reread it!

Aurora https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19547

I could not resist these vintage paperbacks from the Etsy shop OldBookSource 📚✨