Lost City Books Holiday Gift Guide 2025

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Books For A Free Palestine

A Short History of the Gaza Strip

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

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

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

Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm

On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality

Uncanny Valley Girls

Cultural Studies Here and Queer

Deep House

“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

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

Loving II

Absolute Pleasure

Sick and Dirty Michael

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

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?”

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

“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

“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.”

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

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

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

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.

-Adam

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