Welcome to the maiden voyage of the 100 Notable Small Press Books (2025)

The vision:

  • We publish a listing of 100 notable small press books with capsule reviews at the end 2025.

  • We review books published from December 2024 - November 2025.

  • We review books from small, independent presses of traditionally published books. Small press means 50ish titles or fewer per year. No self-published books. No hybrid published books. No publishing houses that are imprints of Big Five publishing houses.

  • We publish reviews across genres.

  • We publish reviews across presses.

  • We commit to reviewing a diverse array of books, including reviews of books from authors of historically underrepresented groups.

UPDATE 12/6/2024: due to overwhelming interest, we have enough reviewers!

There are other ways to be involved. This is a quickly growing, all-volunteer effort! If you’d like to help out behind the scenes, please email miriam [at] miriamgershow [dot] com.

Small Press interest form:

We’re compiling a directory of small presses so reviewers can get their hands on your ARCs.