Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine
Hussein Agha & Robert Malley
You Must Live: New Poetry from Palestine Tayseer Abu Odeu & Sherah Bloor
Perfect Victims Mohammed El-Kurd
The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience Plestia Alaqad
Anne Irfan
The Fire: Voices of a Generation in Iran, Ukraine, & Afghanistan
Cecilia Sala
How Books Can Save Democracy
Michael Fischer
Hope In e Dark Nature Writing
Together: A Manifesto Against a Heartless World
Ece Temelkuran
Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance
Gary Younge
Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
Joyce Vance
The Hidden Seasons
Tristan Gooley
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
Paul Kingsnorth
Bird School: A Beginner in the Woods
Adam Nicolson
In the Circle of Ancient Trees: Our Oldest Trees and the Stories They Tell
Valerie Trouet
Stuff For Dad
For Glory, Not Gold
Hubert Sagnieres
Sword Beach: D-Day Baptism by Fire
Max Hastings
Mexico: A 500-Year History
Paul
Gillingham
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History- and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin
The American Revolution: An Intimate History
Geoffrey C. Ward
Capitalism: A Global History
Sven Beckert
Splendid Liberation: Heroism, Betrayal, Resistance, and the Birth of the American Empire
Joe Jackson
For e Coffee Table
Stay Away From Nothing
Paul Thek
Annie Leibovitz: Women
Annie Leibovitz
Painting the Worlds of Studio Ghibli
Yogi Takeshige
Alphabet In Motion: How Letters Get Their Shape
Kelli Anderson
Harlem Book of the Dead
James Van Der See
Paul Virilio: Bunker Archeology
Paul Virilio
Archigram: The Magazine
Peter Cook
Design and Visual Communication
Bruno Munari
Carmilla Illuminated Edition
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
"I've been a fan of Beehive's Illuminated Editions since they launched their kickstarter in 2017 and CARMILLA is one of my favorites! You may recognize illustrator Rosemary Valero-O'Connell's work from Staff favorite, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me--and her lush and tender artwork is perfect for this beautifully haunting edition of LeFanu's queer vampire classic."
-Becca
How To Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom
Johanna Hedva
Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
Emmeline Clein
On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality
Yumiko Kurahashi
Uncanny Valley Girls
Zefyr Lisowski
Cultural Studies Here and Queer
Deep House
Jeremy Atherton Lin
“From the author of the wildly popular Gay Bar, Jeremy Atherton Lin blends his own love story with a chronicle of the fight for marriage equality. This inspiring and informative mix of memoir and history has been one of the best selling queer books of the year.”
-NRG
Queer Histories
Adriano Pedrosa
On Antisemitism: A World History
Little F
Michelle Tea
“Michelle Tea's Little F is its own universe. A preteen runaway leaves the brutal AZ desert (my home state) for the sparkling gay coast of P-Town and brings us with him. Innocent, hopeful, tearjerker.”
-Arii
The Butch Manual
Clark Henley
Loving II
Hugh Nini
Absolute Pleasure
Margot Atwell
Sick and Dirty Michael
Koresky
Mark Mazower
Music & Film
Here Beside the Rising Tide
Jim Newton
Night People
Mark Ronson
Punk Women
David A. Ensminger
Break The Frame
Kevin Smokler
Visions, Dreams and Rumours
Zoe Howe
Bong Joon Ho:
Director’s Inspiration
Bong Joon Ho
Rear Window
Jennifer O’Callaghan
Reflections
Roger Deakins
Food & Cooking
Good Things
Something from Nothing
Recipes From the American South
Samin Nosrat
Six Seasons: A New Way with Pasta Joshua McFadden
Linger: Salads, Sweets, and Stories to Savor Hetty Lui MicKinnon
By Heart: Recipes to Hold Near and Dear Hailee Catalano
Alison Roman
Vietnam: The Cookbook Anais Ca Dao Van Manen
One Pot: 100 Simple Recipes to Cook Together Amandine Bernardi
Michael W. Twitty
Graphic Lit
The Ephemerata
Tongues
The Once and Future Riot
Joe Sacco
The Past is a Grotesque Animal
Tommi Parrish
"Tommi Parrish's gestural and vibrant cartooning is here featured alongside sketchbook entries, a diary of sorts of a cartoonist exploring young, queer lives, and a peak into the early creative process of one of the best young comic artists working today."
-Adam
Poetry
Bloodmercy
I.S. Jones
“One of the many tremendous achievements of this book is its ability to re-imagine a story many people know and have heard ad nauseam into something contemporary, singular, and utterly captivating. At the intersection of womanhood, spirituality, natural splendor and estrangement, you'll find Bloodmercy by I. S. Jones.”
-Jonny
Stay Dead
Startlement: New and Selected Poems
Ada Limón
The Natural Order of Things
Natalie Shapero
Algarabía
Roque Raquel
Salas Rivera
Donika Kelly
Carol Tyler
Anders Nilsen
Cannon Lee Lai
Scifi/Fantasy
The Everlasting Alix E. Harrow
The Strength of the Few
James Islington
Among the Burning Flowers
Samantha Shannon
Tailored Realities
Brandon Sanderson
The Shattering Peace John Scalzi
All That We See or Seem
Ken Liu
Shadows Upon Time
Christopher Ruocchio
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Samantha Shannon
The Gilded Abyss
Rebecca Thorne
Alchemised Sen Lin Yu
Brigands & Breadknives
Travis Baldree
Katabasis R.F. Kuang
Horror
We Are Always Tender With Our Dead Eric LaRocca
“A disturbingly apt holiday pick. Eric LaRocca's newest release begins with a Christmas morning massacre and slips further and further in the dark shadows of the town of Burnt Sparrow. The horrors on display are LaRocca's signature blend of ethereal and all too real.” -NRG
The Hunger We Pass Down
Jen Sookfong Lee
You Weren’t Meant to Be Human Andrew Joseph White
Lucky Day Chuck Tingle
Caramelle & Carmilla
Jewelle Gomez
Bora Chung
Bitter Karella
King Sorrow Joe Hill
Romance
Ladies In Hating
Alexandra Vasti
Sapphic enemies-to-lovers, swoon! Two Gothic novelists turn rivals in the fight to write their next novels. But is it the haunted manor they set their stories in that keeps them together, or is it their crackling romantic chemistry?”
-Melina
Good Spirits
B.K. Borison
Best Woman Rose Dommu
The Second Death of Locke V.L. Bovalino
Mate Ali Hazelwood
Son of the Morning Akwaeke Emezi
YoungFictionAdult Books for Kids
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney
Coach Jason Reynolds
The Rose Field: Book of Dust Volume Three
Philip Pullman
The Five Wolves
Peter McCarty
Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate
Coldwire
Chloe Gong
Niche Bestsellers
Sta
ff Favorites That You All Liked, Too
The Safekeep
Yael Van Der Wouden
“How does the body remember war? What happens to a body that craves love but only knows survival? Once the world rebuilds, who chooses what gets to stay and what gets left behind? In Van Der Wouden’s debut novel, every seed planted grows with a tension one expects from a seasoned writer. This story is unapologetically queer, erotic, devastating, and redemptive. A necessary examination of how Western Europe represses the memory of genocides it is complicit in.”
-Zoe
Sunburn: A Novel
Chloe Michelle Howarth
“To be young and in love! This book will make your heart ache, your skin tingle, and give you the urge to chain smoke. Best time to read this is summer (duh), especially at the tail end of a tortuous lesbian situationship.”
-Arii
Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation's River
Charlotte Taylor Fryar
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions Larry Mitchell
A Winter's Promise: Book One of the Mirror Visitor Quartet Christelle Dabos
Best of the Year
Monkey Grip & This House of Grief
Helen Garner
If you’ve asked me what I’m reading at all this year, I probably said Helen Garner. She’s widely known in her home country of Australia but has only just begun to be published here in the states. Start with Monkey Grip to get your heart ripped out of your chest, then move on to the Dua Lipa-approved This House of Grief for a little true crime/court procedural moment, and then to her brilliant collected diaries How to End a Story for the real piece de resistance.
-Eliza
Green Of All Heads
Aracelis Girmay
Girmay is—I truly believe—one of the best poets alive today. Each of her books, Kingdom Animalia, The Black Maria, and now her latest 2025 collection, Green of All Heads, have been so alchemically transformative for me. If you are someone in love with the natural world, someone frustrated at governments that abuse and erase the most in need amongst us, and/or someone who has ever grieved the unexpected loss of a loved one, then you will undoubtedly find something to cherish in her work; something that feels like it was meant specifically for you.
-Jonny
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Towards Darkness
Irene Solà
I read the advance readers copy of I Gave You Eyes and You Chose Darkness on New Year’s Eve- a perfectly liminal moment to read a book so much about the past, life and death, hauntings, and, of course, stories. We were lucky enough to host Irene Solà during her tour in June- the event was the highlight of my year! Solà’s writing is lyrical, playful, violent and dirty, bound up in the fable and lore, and the landscapes of which she writes. Hearing her talk about her work was a joy, making me appreciate her writing even more than I already had. We’ve been celebrating and supporting books in translation for years now, and this in particular felt like a truly high moment for me and the bookstore.