Holiday Gift Guide 2021—Shop Early, Save Big!


Our growing LGBTQ collection includes novels that are fun, introspective, diverse, and appealing to all ages. Plus they’ve all won awards! Start your gift list with our latest, TINK AND WENDY, a queer take on Peter Pan by Kelly Ann Jacobson, and NEEDLEWORK, an moving story of a gay teen in Appalachia dealing with his Christian town, his addict mother, and a sudden revelation that his family is not quite what he thought it was. But why stop there? Check out all of these fabulous queer YA titles here.

Love to dive deep into the lives of astounding people? Take a look at our diverse collection of memoirs and biographies. Our 2021 title, FAR AWAY FROM CLOSE TO HOME by Emmy-award winning actress and screenwriter Vanessa Baden Kelly, inspires and reveals the challenges to achieve success as a black millennial woman. In RAY BY RAY, Nicca Ray, daughter of renowned film director Nicholas Ray, details their intersecting lives in an intimate and revealing portrayal of a Hollywood legend. Click on the covers to find out more or check out our complete collection of memoirs and biographies here.

The world of dark alleys, dangerous corners, and political intrigue awaits you in our award-winning mystery/noir collection. The latest is EVERYTHING IS JAKE by Jethro K. Lieberman, who dishes up the first look at pro-bono(!) DC detective T. R. Softly with a deeply-satisfying legal and political thriller. And speaking of DC detectives, Christopher Chambers’ SCAVENGER features street-denizen detective Dickie Cornish in a ketamine-laced deep dive into the gritty end of the DC mystery spectrum. Check out our entire mystery collection here.

A recent New Yorker article on the emerging field of bibliotherapy notes, “In a secular age . . . reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence, that elusive state in which the distance between the self and the universe shrinks.” Our collection of literary fiction aligns perfectly with this idea. New release, ANIMAL WRONGS by Stephen Spotte examines questions of life by focusing on trials of animals in Medieval France. In Gina Yates’ NARCISSUS NOBODY, a woman searches for deeper meaning after a life of unfulfilling relationships. Check out our entire collection here.

You know that those billionaires and their acolytes hopping up to space for a few minutes were inspired by science fiction and fantasy. Our collection features work by legendary author Robert Silverberg, whose short story “Needle in a Timestack,” featured in TIME AND TIME AGAIN, is now a major motion picture directed by Academy Award-winner John Ridley, starring Leslie Odom Jr., Freida Pinto, Cynthia Erivo, and Orlando Bloom. THE DOOR TO INFERNA by teen author Rishab Borah explores an alternate universe in which a boy discovers he is royalty. And Johanna Drucker’s DOWNDRIFT, positing a future in which animals take on human characteristics as a survival mechanism, is becoming increasingly possible. Check out our entire science fiction and fantasy collection here.
So many more titles to choose from. Books make great gifts! Remember, from now until December 31, all Three Rooms Press titles purchased at our Aerio bookstore are 25% off with the code INTIME. Happy holidays. And please shop EARLY!