A note from us
A quieter shelf
for louder books.
dot books is an independent bookshop, run by readers, for readers. We stock titles from independent presses around the world. We don't carry books we haven't read. We don't take placements from publishers. The shelf is small on purpose.
How the shelf works.
Every title here was read by at least one of us before it made it onto the shelf. That's both a constraint and a promise. The shelf will always be small. Promise: if it's here, it earned the spot.
We pay attention to small presses. We pay attention to translators. We pay attention to the books that don't have a marketing budget but have an editor who fought for them. Those are usually the books worth keeping.
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