New & Recent Local Faves
New & Recent Local Faves
By Malvern Books
Our favorite fiction and nonfiction from local writers.
Little
Edward Carey
$17.00 $15.81"Edward Carey writes wonderfully weird books about wonderfully weird things. This one imagines the life of Madame Tussaud—of wax museum fame—as a little girl. It's a hefty historical novel that promises to be a pageturner, too." —Celeste Ng
Not Knowing
Donna Dechen Birdwell
$12.50"This is for you if you like female protagonists, stories that let you follow along and inspire your own train of thoughts, as well as books you would like to read again. Recommended." —Karen, My Train of Thoughts Blog
Barn 8
Deb Olin Unferth
$17.00 $15.81"'Barn 8' is a beautiful, urgent, politically charged book with a huge heart, and while the plot is sometimes madcap, well, so is love." —The New York Times Book Review
Codex of Love: Bendita ternura
Liliana Valenzuela
$18.00 $16.74"'Codex of Love: Bendita ternura' is an examination of body, roots, family, and shared spaces. Through lyrical bilingual text that collapses borders—real and imagined—Valenzuela situates herself in the open space in and between Mexico and the United States." —Sehba Sarwar, author of Black Wings
Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times: From Ask Baba Yaga
Taisia Kitaiskaia
$14.99 $13.94We can't wait for y'all to read this upcoming Taisia Kitaiskaia title! Available for preorder and ships October 6th.
The Nightgown & Other Poems
Taisia Kitaiskaia
$15.95 $14.83"For fans of Taisia Kitaiskaia’s previous books, I’m here to tell you her poetry debut is every bit as wild, witchy, and visionary as you could have hoped." —Dobby Gibson, author of Little Glass Planet
Tears of the Trufflepig
Fernando A. Flores
$19.00 $17.67"Readers of this breakout work [will leave] thrilled and disoriented in equal measure." —The Wall Street Journal
My Heavens
Harold Whit Williams
$15.95"The very idea of a paradise—beyond sky or upon earth or within each moment—is poked and prodded with both sharp cynicism and wide-eyed wonder alike. Addressing grief, the day in/day out depictions are deeply distilled, the lines sober yet also playful, loose and languid."
Running
Natalia Sylvester
$17.99 $16.73"Sylvester's Young Adult debut embodies the theme of our decade: to stand up and speak up for what we believe in ... Sylvester expertly puts readers inside the pressured lives of a family in politics and reaffirms the adage that indeed, knowledge is power." —Booklist, starred review
Bowlaway
Elizabeth McCracken
$19.99"McCracken's prose is well-tooled, hilarious and tender, thoughtful and jocular. Her characters inhabit their world so completely, so bodily, that they could've truly existed." —BookPage, starred review
Harpo Before the Opus
Logan Fry
$17.95 $16.69"Here is rare beauty, a delirium of language feverish, passionate; an abstract pitched and wounded critique." —Karen Garthe
The Book of X
Sarah Rose Etter
$17.99 $16.73"Etter brilliantly, viciously lays bare what it means to be a woman in the world, what it means to hurt, to need, to want, so much it consumes everything." —Roxane Gay, author of "Bad Feminist"
Gloss
Wendy Barker
$16.00"In this deep and resonant book stories are gotten wrong, nightmares erupt, and secrets can finally be spoken. Barker weaves prose poems and verse into an elegant tapestry of the pentimento of one woman's life." —Barbara Hamby, author of "Bird Odyssey"
Your New Feeling Is the Artifact of a Bygone Era
Chad Bennett
$15.95 $14.83"At once daring, humorous, and tender, these poems show the mind at work exploring what it means to live in the body, to desire and be desired." —American Literary Review
Last Woman Standing
Amy Gentry
$15.99 $14.87"The writing here is sharp, with contemporary social issues and moral twists that turn on a dime. 'Last Woman Standing' unfolds like a master class in improvisational tragedy." —Wall Street Journal
Failed State
Christopher Brown
$19.99"The novel is as tense and thrilling as any of Brown's work, and as full of rage and hope. It's a novel that truly reckons with the enormity of both our climate emergency and the system that produced it—a tale of human imperfection and redemption." —Cory Doctorow
The Dark Corners of the Night
Meg Gardiner
$26.99 $25.10"Don't miss it. This is a great one!" —Stephen King
Cuicacalli / House Of Song
Ire'ne Lara Silva
$18.00 $16.74"This gentle voice will scrape stones and make sparks fly, will seep into your senses and beckon like honey for your tongue to touch the blade of its making. Read it. Be bruised by its love." —Octavio Quintanilla
All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir
Kathy Valentine
$26.95 $25.06"'All I Ever Wanted' is a candid and self-aware memoir that provides a street view of a remarkable time in both Austin and LA's musical histories as well as a thoughtful perspective on the pressures, successes and failures of the music business and what it means to be a bold and hungry young woman within it." —Ovrld
Trust Me
Richard Z. Santos
$17.95 $16.69"The pages turn like those of a John Grisham novel. Another fascinating contemporary literary work set in the deserts of New Mexico. Whether you're seeking escapism or illumination, it's the ideal book to read this election year." —The Texas Observer
All Things Left Wild
James Wade
$27.99 $26.03"James Wade has delivered a McCarthy-esque odyssey with an Elmore Leonard ear for dialogue. 'All Things Left Wild' moves like a coyote across this cracked-earth landscape—relentlessly paced and ambitiously hungry." —David Joy, author of 'When These Mountains Burn'