We always think we publish incredible books, but it's lovely to know others think so too! So please enjoy this roundup of 2024 Coffee House Press titles that made "Best-Of" lists from The Washington Post, New York Public Library, Booklist, and more!
A Public Books Public Pick 2024
Alt-Nature
Poems by Saretta Morgan
"The scale of intimacy Morgan lays forth in the pages of Alt-Nature broach timelines of militarism, genocide, and all that nature has archived in resistance to imperialism." —Public Books
A California Review of Books Outstanding Poetry Book of 2024
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Poems by Rosa Alcalá
"Trauma is recorded in the poet’s “chest and in the breath” and in nearly all the poems in this powerful book." —David Starkey, California Review of Books
A Document Top Read of 2024
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
A Literary Collection by Danielle Dutton
"A quadrangular collection. Essays on image-text; short stories; quotations that may comprise a story or an essay; much neither or between; grasslands." —Drew Zeiba, Document
A 2024 Booklist Editor's Choice
Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance
Narrative Nonfiction by Victoria Blanco
"At once painfully intimate and staunchly unsentimental, Out of the Sierra welcomes readers into the Rarámuri world and invites us to count the human costs of climate change, capitalism, and anti-Indigenous prejudice." —Booklist starred review
A Literary Hub Best Book Cover of 2024
Fog & Car
A novel by Eugene Lim
"Fans of Dear Cyborgs and Search History will be delighted to see the genesis of Lim’s searching and curious style." —Literary Hub
A Southwest Review Top 10 Book of 2024
Good Night, Sleep Tight
Short Stories by Brian Evenson
"A gathering of stories that worries at a theme, pulls at some cosmic thread you’d just as soon stay un-pulled. Good night? Sleep tight? Good luck with that.” —Andy Davidson, Southwest Review
A Washington Post Notable Book of 2024
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2024
A Literary Hub Best Book of 2024
Lesser Ruins
A novel by Mark Haber
“Lesser Ruins mounts decisive proof that Haber is one of the most rigorous and serious—and anachronistic—novelists working today.” —Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post