Holiday Gift Guide 2016

Find the perfect book for everyone on your gift list (and yourself!) in Shelf Unbound indie book review magazine’s first Holiday Gift Guide.

December/January 2017

We receive book after book as entries in our annual Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition. We received about a thousand entries this year in all manner of genres – including for the first time a super cool pop-up book, which we honored as “Most Creative.” Our overall winner is On Bittersweet Place by Ronna […]

October/November 2016

Welcome to our annual “Read Global” issue, in which we feature books in translation from around the world. As we’ve noted previously, just three percent of all books published in the United States are translations, and this issue and these books give you an opportunity to discover excellent writers, many of them little known to […]

August/September 2016

Sixth Anniversary Issue, featuring Julie Wade, Rosa Liksom, Kristel Derkowski, Award-Winning Books, and more.

June/July 2016

In this issue, we interview three contemporary short story writers. You’re sure to find a new favorite short story among these works. Enjoy the issue.

April/May 2016

In this issue: Mary Volmer, George Singleton, Sara Majka, and more.

February/March 2016

In this issue: Climate Fiction, Berit Ellingsen, Mary Emerick, Alice Robinson, and more. If you’re new to cli-fi, I highly recommend these three books as an introduction.

December/January 2016

In this issue: the winners of the annual Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Indie Book.

August/September 2015

Special Fifth Anniversary Issue reprises 35 of our favorite author interviews, from debut novelists to a Pulitzer Prize winner.