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This book library collects 100 of the most frequently listed titles from the Small Press Distribution catalog. Every row shows the author, press, genre and publication year, along with the ISBN where we have it, so you can find a copy at your library or bookstore.

Cover of You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am

You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I AmTao LinAction Books · 2006

Punks: New & Selected PoemsJohn KeeneThe Song Cave · 2021

Cover of The Performance of Becoming Human

The Performance of Becoming HumanDaniel BorzutzkyBrooklyn Arts Press · 2016

Necessary StrangerGraham W. FoustFlood Editions · 2007

Up Jump the Boogie: PoemsJohn MurilloCypher Books · 2010

Cover of A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton

A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr HamiltonAlfred Starr HamiltonThe Song Cave · 2013

EunoiaChristian BökCoach House Press · 2001

FaceSherman AlexieHanging Loose Press · 2009

IRLTommy PicoBirds, LLC · 2016

Cover of Incubation: A Space for Monsters

Incubation: A Space for MonstersBhanu KapilLeon Works · 2006

Cover of Plants & Landscapes for Summer Dry Climates (of the San Francisco Bay Region)

Plants & Landscapes for Summer Dry Climates (of the San Francisco Bay Region)East Bay M.U.D. Water Conservation StaffEast Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) · 2004

Cover of Borderlands = La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Borderlands = La Frontera: The New MestizaGloria AnzaldúaAunt Lute Books · 2012

Cover of What I've Stolen, What I've Earned

What I've Stolen, What I've EarnedSherman AlexieHanging Loose Press · 2014

Cover of Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me

Beauty Was the Case that They Gave MeMark LeidnerFactory Hollow Press · 2011

Breaking PoemsSuheir HammadCypher Books · 2008

Garments Against WomenAnne BoyerAhsahta Press · 2015

Lo terciario / The TertiaryRoque Raquel Salas RiveraTimeless, Infinite Light · 2018

Radi OsRonald JohnsonFlood Editions · 2005

The Business of FancydancingSherman AlexieHanging Loose Press · 1992

Poeta en San FranciscoBarbara Jane ReyesTinfish Press · 2005

Cover of Returning the Sword to the Stone

Returning the Sword to the StoneMark LeidnerFonograf Editions · 2021

Rolling the R'sR. Zamora LinmarkKaya Press · 2016

Sitt Marie Rose: a NovelEtel AdnanThe Post-Apollo Press · 1982

The Man SuitZachary SchomburgBlack Ocean · 2007

A Mouth in CaliforniaGraham W. FoustFlood Editions · 2009

Clamor: PoemsElyse FentonCleveland State University Poetry Center · 2010

Cover of Heart Like A Window, Mouth Like A Cliff

Heart Like A Window, Mouth Like A CliffSara BorjasNoemi Press · 2019

Khirbet KhizehS. YizharIbis Editions · 2008

LudlowDavid MasonRed Hen Press · 2007

Cover of One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

One, No One, and One Hundred ThousandLuigi PirandelloSpurl Editions · 2018

Scary, No ScaryZachary SchomburgBlack Ocean · 2009

The TransformationJuliana SpahrAtelos · 2007

& more blackT'ai Freedom FordAugury Books · 2019

American PurgatoryRebecca Gayle HowellEyewear Publishing · 2017

Case SensitiveKate GreenstreetAhsahta Press · 2006

ChromaticH.L. HixEtruscan Press · 2006

Cover of Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada

Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki YasusadaKent JohnsonRoof Books · 1997

ExtratransmissionAndrea Abi-KaramKelsey Street Press · 2019

Cover of GeNtry!fication: or the Scene of the Crime

GeNtry!fication: or the Scene of the CrimeChaun WebsterNoemi Press · 2018

Cover of Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)Hazel Jane PlanteMetonymy Press · 2019

Locke 1928Shawna Yang RyanEl León Literary Arts · 2007

Stories in the Worst WayGarielle LutzCalamari Press · 2009

The Crisis of Infinite WorldsDana WardFuturepoem Books · 2013

Cover of The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers

The Vertical Interrogation of StrangersBhanu KapilKelsey Street Press · 2001

Trino's ChoiceDiane Gonzales BertrandArte Publico Press · 1999

Title data: Post45 Data Collective Small Press Distribution bestseller dataset, CC BY 4.0. Covers courtesy of Open Library.

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Title	Author	Press	Genre	Year	ISBN	Lists
You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am	Tao Lin	Action Books	Poetry	2006	9780976569237	21
Punks: New & Selected Poems	John Keene	The Song Cave	Poetry	2021	9781737277521	16
The Performance of Becoming Human	Daniel Borzutzky	Brooklyn Arts Press	Poetry	2016	9781936767465	16
Necessary Stranger	Graham W. Foust	Flood Editions	Poetry	2007	9780978746711	15
Up Jump the Boogie: Poems	John Murillo	Cypher Books	Poetry	2010	9780981913148	14
A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton	Alfred Starr Hamilton	The Song Cave	Poetry	2013	9780988464308	13
All That Beauty	Fred Moten	Letter Machine Editions	Poetry	2019	9781732772113	13
Eunoia	Christian Bök	Coach House Press	Poetry	2001	9781552450925	13
Face	Sherman Alexie	Hanging Loose Press	Poetry	2009	9781931236706	13
IRL	Tommy Pico	Birds, LLC	Poetry	2016	9780991429868	13
Incubation: A Space for Monsters	Bhanu Kapil	Leon Works	Poetry	2006	9780976582021	13
Plants & Landscapes for Summer Dry Climates (of the San Francisco Bay Region)	East Bay M.U.D. Water Conservation Staff	East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD)	Nonfiction	2004	9780975323106	13
Aram Saroyan: Complete Minimal Poems	Aram Saroyan	Ugly Duckling Presse	Poetry	2007	9781933254258	12
Borderlands = La Frontera: The New Mestiza	Gloria Anzaldúa	Aunt Lute Books	Nonfiction	2012	9781879960855	12
Humanimal: A Project for Future Children	Bhanu Kapil	Kelsey Street Press	Poetry	2009	9780932716774	12
Pink Elephant	Rachel McKibbens	Cypher Books	Poetry	2016	9780984874453	12
The Activist	Renee Gladman	Krupskaya	Fiction	2003	9781928650188	12
The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You	Frank Stanford	Lost Roads Publishers	Poetry	2000	9780918786135	12
What I've Stolen, What I've Earned	Sherman Alexie	Hanging Loose Press	Poetry	2014	9781934909324	12
Audre Lorde: Dream of Europe: Selected Seminars and Interviews: 1984-1992	Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro	Kenning Editions	Poetry	2020	9780999719879	11
Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me	Mark Leidner	Factory Hollow Press	Poetry	2011	9780983520306	11
Breaking Poems	Suheir Hammad	Cypher Books	Poetry	2008	9780981913124	11
Garments Against Women	Anne Boyer	Ahsahta Press	Poetry	2015	9781934103593	11
Lo terciario / The Tertiary	Roque Raquel Salas Rivera	Timeless, Infinite Light	Poetry	2018	9781937421274	11
Of Being Dispersed	Simone White	Futurepoem Books	Poetry	2016	9780996002547	11
Radi Os	Ronald Johnson	Flood Editions	Poetry	2005	9780974690247	11
The Business of Fancydancing	Sherman Alexie	Hanging Loose Press	Poetry	1992	9780914610007	11
Event Factory	Renee Gladman	Dorothy, a publishing project	Fiction	2010	9780984469307	10
Poeta en San Francisco	Barbara Jane Reyes	Tinfish Press	Poetry	2005	9780975937648	10
Returning the Sword to the Stone	Mark Leidner	Fonograf Editions	Poetry	2021	9781734456639	10
Rolling the R's	R. Zamora Linmark	Kaya Press	Fiction	2016	9781885030511	10
Sitt Marie Rose: a Novel	Etel Adnan	The Post-Apollo Press	Fiction	1982	9780942996029	10
The Irrationalist	Suzanne Buffam	Canarium Books	Poetry	2020	9780996982788	10
The Man Suit	Zachary Schomburg	Black Ocean	Poetry	2007	9780977770939	10
TwERK	Latasha N. Nevada Diggs	Belladonna*	Poetry	2013	9780988539907	10
A Mouth in California	Graham W. Foust	Flood Editions	Poetry	2009	9780981952017	9
Academonia	Dodie Bellamy	Krupskaya	Nonfiction	2006	9781928650256	9
Balloon Pop Outlaw Black	Patricia Lockwood	Octopus Books	Poetry	2012	9780985118228	9
Clamor: Poems	Elyse Fenton	Cleveland State University Poetry Center	Poetry	2010	9781880834893	9
Heart Like A Window, Mouth Like A Cliff	Sara Borjas	Noemi Press	Poetry	2019	9781934819791	9
In the Same Light: 200 Tang Poems for Our Century	May Wong	The Song Cave	Poetry	2022	9781800172128	9
Khirbet Khizeh	S. Yizhar	Ibis Editions	Fiction	2008	9780374535568	9
Ludlow	David Mason	Red Hen Press	Poetry	2007	9781597090834	9
One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand	Luigi Pirandello	Spurl Editions	Fiction	2018	9781943679072	9
Scary, No Scary	Zachary Schomburg	Black Ocean	Poetry	2009	9780977770991	9
Scouting for the Reaper	Jacob M. Appel	Black Lawrence Press	Fiction	2014	9781937854959	9
Ten Walks/Two Talks	Jon Cotner	Ugly Duckling Presse	Poetry	2010	9781933254678	9
The Taiga Syndrome	Cristina Rivera Garza	Dorothy, a publishing project	Fiction	2018	9780997366679	9
The Transformation	Juliana Spahr	Atelos	Poetry	2007	9781891190261	9
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead	Barbara Comyns	Dorothy, a publishing project	Fiction	2010	9780984469314	9
Wild Milk: Stories	Sabrina Orah Mark	Dorothy, a publishing project	Fiction	2018	9780997366686	9
& more black	T'ai Freedom Ford	Augury Books	Poetry	2019	9780999501214	8
American Purgatory	Rebecca Gayle Howell	Eyewear Publishing	Poetry	2017	9781911335443	8
Case Sensitive	Kate Greenstreet	Ahsahta Press	Poetry	2006	9780916272890	8
Chromatic	H.L. Hix	Etruscan Press	Poetry	2006	9780974599564	8
Devotional Cinema	Nathaniel Dorsky	Tuumba Press	Nonfiction	2005	9781931157063	8
Divorcer	Garielle Lutz	Calamari Press	Fiction	2011	9780983163350	8
Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada	Kent Johnson	Roof Books	Poetry	1997	9780937804711	8
Everything I Don't Know	Jerzy Ficowski	World Poetry Books	Poetry	2021	9781954218994	8
Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions	Sheila O'Connor	Rose Metal Press	Fiction	2019	9781941628201	8
Extratransmission	Andrea Abi-Karam	Kelsey Street Press	Poetry	2019	9780932716897	8
Freud in Coney Island and Other Tales	Norman M. Klein	Otis Books \| Seismicity Editions	Fiction	2006	9780975592465	8
GeNtry!fication: or the Scene of the Crime	Chaun Webster	Noemi Press	Poetry	2018	9781934819739	8
I, Afterlife: An Essay in Mourning Time	Kristin Prevallet	Essay Press	Nonfiction	2007	9780979118913	8
Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)	Hazel Jane Plante	Metonymy Press	Fiction	2019	9780994047199	8
Locke 1928	Shawna Yang Ryan	El León Literary Arts	Fiction	2007	9780976298397	8
Lyric Postmoderisms: An Anthology of Contemporary Innovative Poetries	Reginald Shepherd	Counterpath Press	Poetry	2008	9781933996066	8
On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing	Ben Estes	The Song Cave	Poetry	2021	9781734035179	8
Porn Carnival	Rachel Rabbit White	Wonder	Poetry	2019	9781732090026	8
Refuse to Disappear	Tara Betts	The Word Works	Poetry	2022	9781944585587	8
Sadder than Water: Selected Poems	Samih al-Qasim	IBIS Editions	Poetry	2006	9789659012558	8
Saraya, The Ogre's Daughter: a Palestinian Fairy Tale	Imīl Ḥabībī	IBIS Editions	Fiction	2006	9789659012459	8
Somebody Blew Up America	Amiri Baraka	House of Nehesi Publishers	Poetry	2003	9780913441725	8
Stories in the Worst Way	Garielle Lutz	Calamari Press	Fiction	2009	9780979808074	8
The Babysitter at Rest	Jen George	Dorothy, a publishing project	Fiction	2016	9780997366631	8
The Crisis of Infinite Worlds	Dana Ward	Futurepoem Books	Poetry	2013	9780982279885	8
The Maybe-Bird	Jennifer Elise Foerster	The Song Cave	Poetry	2022	9781737277552	8
The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers	Bhanu Kapil	Kelsey Street Press	Poetry	2001	9780932716569	8
The Wallcreeper	Nell Zink	Dorothy, a publishing project	Fiction	2014	9780989760737	8
Trino's Choice	Diane Gonzales Bertrand	Arte Publico Press	Fiction	1999	9781558852686	8
While They Sleep (Under the Bed is Another Country)	Roque Raquel Salas Rivera	Birds, LLC	Poetry	2019	9780991429844	8
ZaatarDiva	Suheir Hammad	Cypher Books	Poetry	2005	9781892494672	8
A Pillow Book	Suzanne Buffam	Canarium Books	Poetry	2016	9780996982702	7
Advantages of Being Evergreen	Oliver Baez Bendorf	Cleveland State University Poetry Center	Poetry	2019	9781880834008	7
All Morning the Crows	Meg Kearney	The Word Works	Poetry	2021	9781944585440	7
Ark	Ronald Johnson	Flood Editions	Poetry	2013	9780983889366	7
Beast Meridian	Vanessa Angélica Villarreal	Noemi Press	Poetry	2017	9781934819654	7
Benediction	Alice Notley	Letter Machine Editions	Poetry	2015	9780988713734	7
Black Dog Songs	Lisa Jarnot	Flood Editions	Poetry	2003	9780971005990	7
Clampdown	Jennifer Moxley	Flood Editions	Poetry	2009	9780978746797	7
Creature	Amina Cain	Dorothy, a publishing project	Fiction	2013	9780984469383	7
Ever: a Novella	Blake Butler	Calamari Press	Fiction	2009	9780979808067	7
Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't A Rapist	Cecilia Gentili	LittlePuss Press	Nonfiction	2022	9781736716823	7
Fast Machine	Elizabeth Ellen	Short Flight/Long Drive Books	Fiction	2012	9780982530177	7
Fjords Vol.1	Zachary Schomburg	Black Ocean	Poetry	2012	9780984475254	7
From Unincorporated Territory	Craig Santos Perez	Tinfish Press	Poetry	2008	9781632430410	7
Gully	Roger Bonair-Agard	Cypher Books	Poetry	2010	9781845231583	7
I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On	Khadijah Queen	YesYes Books	Fiction	2017	9781936919468	7
In the Absent Everyday	Tsering Wangmo Dhompa	Apogee Press	Poetry	2005	9780974468778	7
My Love Is a Beast: Confessions	Alexander Cheves	Unbound Edition Press	Nonfiction	2021	9780991378036	7

How to Read the Table

The "Lists" column counts how many bestseller lists a title appeared on between 2006 and 2023. Poetry lists were monthly, and fiction and nonfiction lists came out every other month, so a long run shows a book readers kept returning to. The year is the publication year recorded in the library catalog.

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Source: "Small Press Distribution Bestseller Lists 2006-2023" by Sera-Ann Hargrove and Micah Bateman (editors: Alexander Manshel, J.D. Porter and Melanie Walsh), Post45 Data Collective, DOI 10.18737/857371, CC BY 4.0. We grouped the original rows into unique titles and authors and added list counts. View the dataset.

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