The Unsolicited Press Curiosities are rotating three-book selections drawn from our catalog and arranged around a shared feeling, tension, or literary obsession. They are not random bundles. They are small shelves with a pulse. Some are strange. Some are furious. Some are tender in a way that still bites back. Each Curiosity is available for a limited time before the cabinet opens to something new.
The Unsolicited Press Curiosities
New Curiosities arrive every Monday.
Curiosity No. 1
Women Who Would Not Behave
Released March 23
Some women are told to be smaller, quieter, kinder, easier to hold. These books reject all of that. Women Who Would Not Behave gathers three fierce, intimate works about betrayal, reckoning, reinvention, and the refusal to remain polite in the face of damage.
Includes:
• Poison Apple — Megan Dhakshini
• I Bought My Husband’s Mistress Lingerie — Stacey Freeman
• House of the Silverfish — Elizabeth Vignali
3 books / under $40
Current Curiosity
The Curiosity Cabinet Release Schedule
Curiosity No. 1 — Women Who Would Not Behave
March 23
Some women are told to be smaller, quieter, kinder, easier to hold. These books reject all of that. Women Who Would Not Behave gathers three fierce, intimate works about betrayal, reckoning, reinvention, and the refusal to remain polite in the face of damage.
Curiosity No. 2 — Tender Things With Teeth
March 30
Not everything sharp arrives with a warning. Tender Things With Teeth gathers three books that move through longing, appetite, vulnerability, and defiance, proving that what appears delicate can still leave a mark.
Curiosity No. 3 — The Beautiful Damage
April 6
There is damage that destroys, and damage that reveals. The Beautiful Damage brings together three books about grief, fracture, endurance, and the difficult work of surviving what has already changed you.
Curiosity No. 4 — Strange Little Lives
April 13
Some people move through the world slightly out of step with it, and that is often where the best stories begin. Strange Little Lives gathers three books full of misfits, odd turns, peculiar tenderness, and lives shaped by absurdity, longing, and the strange logic of being human.
Curiosity No. 5 — Rage, Properly Documented
April 20
Anger does not need to be softened to be artful. Rage, Properly Documented brings together three books that confront violence, precarity, sorrow, and resistance with force, precision, and absolutely no interest in making themselves easier to swallow.
Curiosity No. 6 — Poems for the Long Night
April 27
These are books for the hours when sleep will not come and the mind refuses to quiet down. Poems for the Long Night gathers three collections that move through heartbreak, loss, fury, memory, and survival with the kind of clarity that only arrives after dark.
Curiosity No. 7 — The Unquiet Mind
May 4
Identity is rarely stable, and the mind is not always a safe or simple place to live. The Unquiet Mind gathers three books that explore disorder, embodiment, selfhood, and the pressure of moving through a world that keeps insisting on neat explanations.
Curiosity No. 8 — The Forest Is Watching
May 11
Landscape is never just backdrop in these books. The Forest Is Watching brings together three titles where woods, wilderness, and rural terrain become witness, threat, memory, and mirror.
Curiosity No. 9 — A Small Catastrophe
May 18
Not every disaster arrives all at once. Some unfold slowly, reshaping a life piece by piece. A Small Catastrophe gathers three books about exile, grief, upheaval, and the long emotional aftermath of events that cannot be undone.
Curiosity No. 10 — Books That Stare Back
May 25
Some books do more than invite a reader in. They challenge, unsettle, and insist on participation. Books That Stare Back gathers three formally ambitious, emotionally searching works that ask you to do more than observe from a safe distance.
Curiosity No. 11 — The Indie Heart
June 1
This is the shelf that feels closest to the pulse of the press. The Indie Heart brings together three books that are strange, intimate, lyrical, and emotionally alive.
Curiosity No. 12 — The Necessary Mess
June 8
Some truths do not arrive cleanly. The Necessary Mess gathers three books that live inside contradiction, inheritance, violence, tenderness, and self-reckoning.
Curiosity No. 13 — The Punk Rock Philly Trio
June 15
A little unhinged, a little romantic, and fully committed to the bit, The Punk Rock Philly Trio gathers three books pulsing with music, bad decisions, heart, weirdness, and chaotic energy.