Grandview Drive, the debut effort from Tim Blackett, is a collection of 16 interconnected short stories that exude loneliness, isolation, and the often desolate nature of human experience.

There are certain things in this life that naturally go together, as if inextricably bound by some unspoken rule. Peanut butter and jelly. Hot dogs and baseball. Midnight and true crime documentaries. And, of course, hip-hop and high fashion.

Your Absence is Darkness expounds on themes of life, death, love, loneliness, mistakes, and the search for meaning, those of which great novels are made. It will be one of the best books you read this year.

Bite Your Friends finds writer Fernanda Eberstadt examining both her own story and the stories of cultural provocateurs, martyrs, and radical thinkers who have used their bodies as agents of anarchy, protest, and change.

Song Keepers documents in prose, photography, and song the history of Music Maker Foundation, which supports artists and keeps the spirit of American roots music alive.

In Adventures in Modern Recording, Trevor Horn chronicles his rise and time on top as one of the most in demand producers of the 1980s and beyond.

How to Protect Bookstores and Why makes a case for why independent bookstores deserve support and why such support is absolutely necessary to a progressive culture that supports the arts, the people, and the communities in which they reside.

In this beautifully written novel, filled with wondrous image-filled prose, Muriel Barbery explores themes of love, of longing, of life, death, and what it means to continue on.

Matt Pryor is the frontman for the band The Get Up Kids. Red Letter Days is his memoir, of sorts.