Foreword Reviews

11/26/2025

Mark your calendar for Foreword's Cyber Monday Discount Event!

Foreword’s once-a-year Cyber Monday discount starts at 12:01 am EST on December 1st, 2025.

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11/25/2025

This Thanksgiving week, and always, we are grateful for the authors and publishers who submit books for review consideration and support us with advertising; the librarians, booksellers, and readers who subscribe to Foreword Reviews; the reviewers who take such care with the books they write about; and for the freedom to read. We're also grateful for local indie booksellers who make a difference in the world, like Rachel from The Folded Leaf ("a safe space for inspired souls who thrive in the world of wonder") whose Thanksgiving Box Program fed 70 families, approximately 340 people, in five counties here in Northern Michigan. https://loom.ly/fJGOVWY

The Folded Leaf is a community hub selling New & Used books, Local Art, and Native Northern Michigan plants.

11/21/2025

Book of the Day Roundup: November 17-21. Check out these fabulous titles! Regal House Publishing Levine Querido Interlink Publishing Allen & Unwin Books
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11/20/2025

Foreword This Week: Reviewer Brooke Shannon Interviews Catharina Coenen, Author of UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE, Plus Adventures in Nature U Iowa Press Restless Books Paul Dry Books Floris Books NYRB Annick Press Regal House Post Wave Publishing Levine Querido Interlink Publishing Allen & Unwin Books
https://loom.ly/_qbtgxM

11/20/2025

Congrats to these indie publishers, winners in the National Book Awards 2025 Levine Querido Grove Atlantic W. W. Norton & Company

Debra Magpie Earling is the author of the novels Perma Red and The Lost Journals of Sacajewea. She is the recipient of the Montana Governor’s Arts Award and has received both a Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and the American Book Award. Her novel Perma Red was recognize...

11/19/2025

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11/18/2025

Wonderful to see Jeremy Paden, author and co-translator of bilingual children’s picture book "Under the Ocelot Sun" (Shadelandhouse Modern Press) in action at the Kentucky Book Festival earlier this month. Read our review here: https://loom.ly/PqHSv2M

Under the Ocelot Sun: In this bilingual book, a mother shares the story of her beloved homeland and its struggles to survive growing political corruption, violence, and poverty. She weighs the risks and possible rewards of immigration in bittersweet verses. They...

11/14/2025

Book of the Day Roundup: November 10-14 ~ Check out these fabulous titles! Milky Way Picture Books Bushel & Peck Books Soft Skull Press Blackstone Publishing Carolrhoda Books
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11/13/2025

An Interview with Theodora Goss, Author of LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY, Plus Suffragettes, Revolution, Romantasy, and Lunar Friendship Tachyon Publications The Collective Book Studio Pegasus Books Graywolf Press Bloomsbury U.S. Enchanted Lion Books Milky Way Picture Books Bushel & Peck Books Soft Skull Press Blackstone Publishing Carolrhoda Books
https://loom.ly/vYsNm78

11/13/2025

There’s still time to submit to the 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. Each year, booksellers and librarians from across the country serve as judges, drawing on their expertise to recognize the best books from independent presses and authors.

Entry Deadline: January 15, 2026
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11/12/2025

We join our friends at the Association of University Presses in celebrating the collaborative spirit at the heart of university press publishing this week, and always.

Standout university press titles that we've recently reviewed include "Furious Minds" from Princeton University Press (starred), "Somebody Should Do Something" from The MIT Press, and "Party at the Ballot Box" from NYU Press.

https://loom.ly/dqzfPTA

11/10/2025

Our editor-in-chief's Monday read is this fresh romantasy novel from Bloomsbury Publishing. Poisoned apples have never been so tempting! 🍎Expect enemies-to-lovers themes, fairy tale inversions, seductive darkness---and a fiercely protective little gargoyle! Bloomsbury U.S.