What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide
Rumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family!
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What to Read When
What to Read When Your City Hasn’t Held Space for Your Community
Kristen Millares Young shares a reading list to celebrate SEISMIC: SEATTLE, CITY OF LITERATURE.
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What to Read When You Want to Think about Survival
Kelly J. Baker shares a reading list to celebrate FINAL GIRL.
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What to Read When You Want a Ghost Story, Old or New
Claire Cronin shares a reading list to celebrate BLUE LIGHT OF THE SCREEN.
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What to Read When You Grew Up Watching Dawson’s Creek
Erin Hensley and Julia Callahan share a reading list to celebrate I REMEMBER EVERYTHING.
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What to Read When You Want Spooky Stories from Around the World
Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto share a reading list to celebrate TINY NIGHTMARES.
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What to Read When You Want to Remember World War II
Linda Kass shares a reading list to celebrate A RITCHIE BOY.
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What to Read When You like Your Memoirs in Essays
Sarah Kasbeer shares a reading list to celebrate A WOMAN, A PLAN, AN OUTLINE OF A MAN.
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What to Read When You Want to Be Inspired by Latin American Resistance
Mark Eisner shares a reading list to celebrate RESISTENCIA: POEMS OF PROTEST AND REVOLUTION.
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What to Read When You Want Story Collections about Working Lives
Jenny Bhatt shares a reading list to celebrate EACH OF US KILLERS.
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What to Read When You’re a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize Winner
The 2020 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize winners share books that have inspired them!
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What to Read When You Want a Good Short Book
Kim Adrian shares a reading list to celebrate DEAR KNAUSGAARD.
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What to Read When You Suspect That Time Is Not a Line
Jen Fawkes shares a reading list to celebrate MANNEQUIN AND WIFE.
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What to Read When You Want to Read Lolita
Alisson Wood shares a reading list to celebrate her debut memoir, BEING LOLITA.
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What to Read When a Global Pandemic Makes It Hard to Live Beyond Your Means
Sarah-Catherine Gutierrez shares a reading list to celebrate BUT FIRST, SAVE 10.
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What to Read When You Need to Understand Structural Inequity
There are many types of burns, but there is the cooling stream of joy.
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What to Read When You’re Trying to Hold Your Selves Together
Irena Yamboliev shares a reading list to celebrate LOOKING WAS NOT ENOUGH.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Pride
Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate Pride Month!
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What to Read When You’re Living in a Female Body
Marcia Trahan shares a reading list to celebrate MERCY: A MEMOIR OF MEDICAL TRAUMA AND TRUE CRIME OBSESSION.
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What to Read When You Want to Run Away from Your Life
Alden Jones shares a reading list to celebrate THE WANTING WAS A WILDERNESS.
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What to Read When You’ve Made It Halfway Through 2020
Rumpus editors share forthcoming books they can’t wait to read!
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate APIA Heritage Month
Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate APIA Heritage Month!
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What to Read When You Just Want to Laugh
Mia Mercado shares a reading list to celebrate WEIRD BUT NORMAL.
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What to Read When You Can’t Invite Your Queer Family Over for Dinner
Miah Jeffra shares a reading list to celebrate THE FABULOUS EKPHRASTIC FANTASTIC!.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Mothers
Rumpus editors share a Mother’s Day reading list to celebrate mothers in all their complexity!
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What to Read When You Need to See Someone Else’s Light and Darkness
Carla Rachel Sameth shares a reading list to celebrate ONE DAY ON THE GOLD LINE.
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What to Read When You Want to Tread through Love’s Complications
Shuly Xóchitl Cawood shares a reading list to celebrate A SMALL THING TO WANT.
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What to Read When You Can’t Write
Courtney Maum shares a reading list to celebrate BEFORE AND AFTER THE BOOK DEAL.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Poetry
Rumpus editors share share new and forthcoming collections we’re especially excited about!
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What to Read When You’re Motherless and Mothering
Chelsea Bieker shares a reading list to celebrate GODSHOT.
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