Because 2026 has been such a strong year for books, we couldn’t pick just ten. Here’s a stack we’re looking forward to cracking open this fall & winter.
House of Vlad Press/Vlad Mag
@houseofvladpress.bsky.social
Iconic independent publishing house founded by author Brian Alan Ellis (2003-2007, 2013-present), known for its edgy, transgressive and unconventional approach to literature. Vlad Mag, an online literary journal, started in 2023 // houseofvladpress.com
Vlad Mag: “Suburban Spunk,” edited by @dtrobbins.bsky.social, is LIVE NOW, featuring work by Ryan Bradford 🎃
--->New poem "BULLY" out now in vlad mag issue 9 "Suburban Spunk" Read here: tinyurl.com/mvspvzsa #poetry #writingcommunity #writing
House of Vlad Press/Vlad Mag@houseofvladpress.bsky.social · last wk.VLAD MAG: ISSUE 9, “SUBURBAN SPUNK,” EDITED BY @dtrobbins.bsky.social, IS LIVE! SHARE AND ENJOY! COVER PHOTO: @antverdi.bsky.social ❤️
VLAD MAG: ISSUE 9, “SUBURBAN SPUNK,” EDITED BY @dtrobbins.bsky.social, IS LIVE! SHARE AND ENJOY! COVER PHOTO: @antverdi.bsky.social ❤️
it’s @alexandranaughton.bsky.social’s birthday week — what better way to celebrate than a Night Light reading featuring Alexandra, Charlie Zacks, Conor Hultman, & Rudy Johnson? 🔗 below to register for Thursday night!! this is such an exciting lineup I can’t wait :)
OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK/EBOOK!
House of Vlad Press/Vlad Mag@houseofvladpress.bsky.social · 4mo agoPRE-ORDER a signed copy of Book of David: Stories by @mallorysmart.bsky.social, out Oct 2026! “...a gospel of cruelty engraved in viciousness, darkness, and unrelenting rot. Bewildering and utterly breathtaking...” - @ericlarocca.com, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
Alexandra Naughton @alexandranaughton.bsky.social from Sick of Being Inside Myself @houseofvladpress.bsky.social
One week from today! A reading marathon for the ages Arrive early. Last year was PACKED. We start right at 6:15pm.
A Review of a Review of The Errors Tour by Brian Alan Ellis in @razorcake.bsky.social #153, Part One
Shout-out to @razorcake.bsky.social for reviewing some of our hottest titles 🥵
One year since VLAD MAG 6 (PART ONE): SUMMER BUMMER, edited by Brian Alan Ellis 🥵
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID BRAT SUMMER, a new story by Brian Alan Ellis is live @rejectionlit.bsky.social 🖤
PRE-ORDER a signed copy of Book of David: Stories by @mallorysmart.bsky.social, out Oct 2026! “...a gospel of cruelty engraved in viciousness, darkness, and unrelenting rot. Bewildering and utterly breathtaking...” - @ericlarocca.com, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
Vlad Mag: “Toxic Nostalgia,” edited by Tex Gresham and @wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social, is OUT NOW, featuring work by 804 Sentence Cult ☣️
The Brian Alan Ellis 2016 crash-out classic, A Series of Pained Facial Expressions Made While Shredding Air Guitar: 10th Anniversary Edition, with almost 40 pages of bonus stuff, is OUT NOW in paperback/ebook ⚡ "...amazing and hilarious...a true American original." - @budsmith.bsky.social
Vlad Mag: “Toxic Nostalgia,” edited by Tex Gresham and @wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social, is OUT NOW, featuring work by Frankie Baby ☣️
Vlad Mag: “Toxic Nostalgia,” edited by Tex Gresham and @wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social, is OUT NOW, featuring work by Caleb Bethea ( @maudlinhouse.bsky.social ) ☣️
Vlad Mag: “Toxic Nostalgia,” edited by Tex Gresham and @wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social, is OUT NOW, featuring work by @emilylauracosta.bsky.social ( @rejectionlit.bsky.social / @autofocusbooks.bsky.social ) ☣️
ALMOST GONE! Get a signed, limited edition copy of the Brian Alan Ellis 2016 crash-out classic, A Series of Pained Facial Expressions Made While Shredding Air Guitar: 10th Anniversary Edition ⚡almost 40 bonus pages ⚡ out 6/6, but pre-orders ship next week with goodies ⚡
Vlad Mag: “Toxic Nostalgia,” edited by Tex Gresham and @wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social, is OUT NOW, featuring work by Sam Berman ☣️
PRE-ORDER one (or more) of only 25 SIGNED copies of A SERIES OF PAINED FACIAL EXPRESSIONS MADE WHILE SHREDDING AIR GUITAR: TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION by BRIAN ALAN ELLIS, featuring almost 40 pages of bonus material! Ships next week with stickers and a pin ⚡ Out 6/6/26
![Book cover for Vengeance is Mine by Friedrich Torberg, trans by Stephanie Gorrell Ortega (Boiler Room Press): One morning in November 1940, two men meet on New Jersey dock. One, haggard and haunted, says he’s waiting for 75 refugees from Hitler’s Germany. Every day he waits, and every day he leaves — alone. Over a drink in a nearby bar, he relates the story of his imprisonment in a pre-war Nazi concentration camp. Of the SS commandant who separated out all the Jewish inmates and set about a deliberate program to kill them one by one, by torture, beatings, or suicide. Until the day when one inmate found himself faced with a decision: was vengeance, as it says in the Torah, a matter for God alone? Written in 1943 and never before translated into English, Vengeance is Mine [German title: Mein ist die Rache] is the first work of fiction to predict the Nazi’s final solution, their program to exterminate the Jews. Its story is short, stunning, and unforgettable: a 20th century masterpiece. https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/vengeance-is-mine](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wtetx7xtjyatfdgoo6qzfjx7/bafkreignthhhy4gzq5ongipgbpqxjdxlnra2bu6ao5bd64e5xhs7nk5jlq)
Vlad Mag: “Toxic Nostalgia,” edited by Tex Gresham and @wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social, is OUT NOW, featuring work by Cletus Crow / @pigroastpublishing.bsky.social ☣️
Vlad Mag: “Toxic Nostalgia,” edited by Tex Gresham and @wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social, is OUT NOW, featuring work by @burialmagazine.bsky.social ☣️
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Blood Brother (by Lily Lady, ill by Kyle Greenberg, @houseofvladpress.bsky.social) & Death in the Woods (by Sherwood Anderson, @ikeproject.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers
Vlad Mag: “Toxic Nostalgia,” edited by Tex Gresham and @wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social, is OUT NOW, featuring work by Paige Johnson ☣️
