BY JOANNA C. VALENTE
This is a short list of books that have been published in 2015, by both large and indie presses. There are so many more beautiful books out there that I either have yet to read, am still reading, or haven't had the pleasure of discovering.
I hope you let these draw you into their world. Maybe you'll even give them as gifts to others, and make their worlds bigger too:
1. Binary Star, Sarah Gerard (Two Dollar Radio)
2. Naturalism, Wendy Xu (Brooklyn Arts Press)
3. Swan Feast, Natalie Eilbert (Bloof Books)
4. DEAD HORSE, Niina Pollari (Birds LLC)
5. The Complete Stories, Clarice Lispector, trans. Katrina Dodson, ed. Benjamin Moser (New Directions)
6. C’est la guerre, Danniel Schoonebeek (Poor Claudia)
7. Love the Stranger, Jay Deshpande (YesYes Books)
8. Alice in Greenpoint, Iva Ticic (Finishing Line Press)
9. Salt Is for Curing, Sonya Vatomsky (Sator Press)
10. Shipbreaking, Robin Beth Schaer (Anhinga Press)
11. Some Planet, Jamie Mortara (YesYes Books)
12. Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS, Dale Peck (Soho)
13. The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson (Graywolf)
14. Trans: A Memoir, Juliet Jacques (Verso)
15. Exodus in X Minor, Fox Frazier-Foley (Sundress Publications)
16. Bad Baby, Abigail Welhouse (Dancing Girl Press)
17. Keen, Lauren Gordon (Horse Less Press)
18. Wild Rabbit, Sophia Starmack (Deadly Chaps Press)
19. This Must Be the Place, Sean H. Doyle (Civil Coping Mechanisms)
20. Honey & Bandages, Katie Longofono and Mary Stone (Folded Word)
21. Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, Morgan Parker (Switchback Books)
22. The Witch of Lime Street, David Jaher (Penguin)
23. Louder Than Everything You Love, Nicole Ross Rollender (ELJ Publications)
24. Hustle, David Tomas Martinez (Sarabande Books)
25. The Origin of the Milky Way, Barbara Ungar (Gival Press)
26. Hiccups, Joe Pan (Augury Books)
27. Love and Oranges, Carla Carlson (Finishing Line Press)
28. CITIZEN: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine. (Graywolf)
29. Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff (Riverhead)
30. Sophomore Year Is Greek to Me, Meredith Zeitlin (G.P. Putnam's Books for Young Readers)
31. Digest, Gregory Pardlo (Four Way Books)
32. Witches Of America, Alex Mar (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
33. Guantánamo Diary, Mohamedou Ould Slahi and edited by Larry Siems (Little, Brown and Company)
34. Try Me, Niel Rosenthalis (Deadly Chaps Press)
35. Rough Magick, Francesca Lia Block and Jessica Marie Mendez (Dangerous Angel)
36. Boy With Thorn, Rickey Laurentiis (University of Pittsburgh Press)
37. Wild Hundreds, Nate Marshall (University of Pittsburgh Press)
38. Lighting the Shadow, Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Four Way Books)
39. Opinel, Rebecca Kaiser Gibson (Bauhan Publishing)
40. War of the Foxes, Richard Siken (Copper Canyon Press)