The holiday season is upon us once again! That means two things:
1) The Literary Arts Bookstore is officially a year old!
2) It’s time to think about what books we’ll be wrapping up and sharing with friends and family this winter.
Here in this guide, you’ll find a small selection of recommendations from around the store to inspire your winter reading and gifting. We crafted this collection with you, our community, in mind, as we’ve spent much of our first year learning what you love.
Still, no guide can capture the unique tastes of every reader, so whether you’re browsing for yourself or others, please come say hello this winter season, enjoy a warm drink or meal at the cafe, and let us know what you’re looking for. We’re sure we can find a story for you.
—Literary
Arts Bookstore & Cafe
GIFT CARDS
Have a reader in your life who loves choosing their own reads? Give them the gift of browsing with a Literary Arts gift card. We have both physical and digital gift cards available for the bookstore (emailed gift cards make a great lastminute gift)!
Want to make that gift extra sweet? Don’t forget to snag a gift card for the cafe as well!
GIFT WRAPPING
Let our booksellers and volunteers tie the bow on your books! We’ll have festive gift wrapping available throughout the holiday season.
CLASSES & SEMINARS
Literary Arts has a variety of writing classes and readers seminars, both in person and online. Classes and seminars range from one day to nine months and cover many genres and styles. Some upcoming classes include Advanced Memoir, The Art of Fiction, Your Novel’s First Pages, and Writing with the Seasons.
If you’re interested in gifting a writing class or readers seminar, contact writers@literary-arts.org.
WE’RE IN GIVE!GUIDE
By supporting Literary Arts, you help us offer diverse programming to our community and bring together readers and writers of all ages. Together, we will build bridges and ignite conversations that will create a more engaged, empathetic, inclusive, and strong community
Thank you for being a part of the Literary Arts community!
Scan the QR code or visit lit-arts.org/giveguide to give today!
FICTION
We Solve Murders
A recently widowed retiree, his daughter-in-law bodyguard to the rich and famous, and the celebrity mystery author diva she’s tasked with protecting unite as an unlikely crimesolving team. I’d recommend this book to any and everyone! —Pauline
So Far Gone
The Wilderness
A Guardian and a Thief
A Sunny Place for
Posthumously published short stories from a local Portland legend.
Jess Walter
$30.00
Heart the Lover
Lily King
$28.00
House of Day, House of Night
Olga Tokarczuk
$28.00
Megha Majumdar
$29.00
Angela Flourney
$30.00
Shady People
Mariana Enriquez $17.00
The God of the Woods
Liz Moore
$19.00
The Antidote
Karen Russell
$30.00
Near Flesh
Katherine Dunn
$28.00
A Long Winter
Colm Toíbín
$20.00
Richard Osman
$19.00
cozyperfect “book about books” for all you booklovers.
COOKBOOKS
Sally’s Baking 101
Sally McKenney
$32.99
What Can I Bring?
Casey Elsass
$30.00
Something from Nothing
Alison Roman
$37.99
Linger
Hetty Lui McKinnon
$40.00
I just love McKinnon’s vibe! Linger presents familiar yet polished recipes that build community through food. —Tina
Good Things
Samin Nosrat
$45.00
Dinner
Bonus: no equipmentfancy or scratchdough-from-required!
Homemade
Ramen
Sho Spaeth
$35.00
Family Thai
Kat Thompson
Pastry Temple
Meera Sodha
$39.99
Arnold Myint &
$40.00
Six Seasons of Pasta
Joshua McFadden & Martha Holmberg
$40.00
Christina Wood
$24.95
La Mesa Mexicana Rosa Cienfuegos $49.95
KIDS & YOUNG ADULT
Coldwire
Chloe Gong
$21.99
The Bunny Ballet
Nora Ericson & Elly MacKay
$18.99
Tell An Interesting Story
Dr. Meredith
L. Rowe & Monika Forsberg
$16.99
If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone
Gideon Sterer & Emily Hughes
$19.99
Cabin Head and Tree Head
Scott Campbell
$9.99
The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys & Steve Sheinkin
$9.99
An Anthology of Remarkable Bugs
Jess French
$24.99
Dear Acorn (Love, Oak)
Joyce Sidman & Melissa Sweet
$19.99
The Stuff That Stuff Is Made Of Jonathan Drori, Jiatong Liu, & Raxenne Maniquiz
$22.99
Dinos That Drive
Suzy Levinson & Dustin Harbin
$18.99
A great story time gift for kiddos of all ages! With smart and silly rhymes on every page, there’s surely a dino for everyone. Great for fans of Shel Silverstein or Sandra Boynton. —Alex
Scarlet Morning
ND Stevenson
$19.99
A breathtaking illustrated novel full of whimsy, heart, (and pirates) from the creator of Nimona!
L ITERARY AR TS
5. Ale dispenser, or name of the Literary Arts podcast, briefly
8. Portland’s city-wide youth poetry slam
10. Murdle, for example
12. The biggest section at the Literary Arts bookstore
13. Local lit honor, briefly
15. Portlanders don’t carry this, supposedly
17. One may carry their new books in this
18. A Literary Arts writers residency will open in this author’s former home
