Holiday Book List

Books make fantastic gifts any time of year.  We hope that when you make your shopping lists, you will consider books by our correspondents and by our roster of talented guest bloggers. We've even included links to Amazon, so you don't have to leave your living room.  Happy Best American Holidays!*

Sleeping with Houdini by Nin Andrews. (BOA, 2007).

Ghostwood by Star Black. (New York Poets Series, 2003)

Notarikon by Catherine Bowman. (Four Way Books, 2006).

Elapsing Speedway Organism by Bruce Covey. (No Tell Books, 2006).

Fire to Fire , by Mark Doty, winner of The National Book Award. (Harper, 2008).

Two and Two by Denise Duhamel. (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005).

Soft Sift by Mark Ford. (Harcourt, 2003).

Ghost Girls by Amy Gerstler. (Penguin, 2004).

Three Trios by Judith Hall. (Triquarterly, 2006).

Legible Heavens by H. L. Hix. (Etruscan Press, 2008).

Judge by Vincent Katz. ( Charta/Libellum, 2007).

Drunk by Noon by Jennifer Knox. (Bloof Books, 2007).

Your Ten Favorite Words by Reb Livingston. (Coconut Books, 2007).

The White Bride by Sarah Maclay. (University of Tampa Press, 2008).

The Cop Who Rides Alone by Ross Martin. (Zoo Press, 2001).

Fragment of the Head of a Queen by Cate Marvin.( Sarabande Press, 2007).

Annoying Diabetic Bitch by Sharon Mesmer.(Combo Books, 2008).

How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love by E. Ethelbert Miller. (Curbstone Press, 2004).

The History of My World Tonight by Daniel Nester. ( BlazeVox, 2006).

This Full Green Hour One O'Clock Poets with poems by Amy Lemmon. ( Sonopo Press, 2008).

The Search Engine by Kathleen Ossip. (Copper Canyon Press, 2002).

Look Slimmer Instantly! by Jerome Sala. (Soft Skull Press, 2005).

Squandermania by Don Share. (Salt Publishing, 2007).

Have You No Shame? And Other Regrettable Stories by Rachel Shukert. (Random House, 2008).

Headless by Benjamin Weissman. ( Akashic Books, 2004).

Woman Reading to the Sea by Lisa Williams. (W. W. Norton, 2008).

Boy Drinkers by Terence Winch. (Hanging Loose Press, 2007).

Azores by David Yezzi. (Swallow Press, 2008).

* Many thanks to editorial assistant Allison Green for her help in assembling this list.