Wishlist ✨

Special-edition Blackwing pencils in a Disney collab, featuring Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, and Pluto. Gift sets come with 6 pencils, a themed sharpener, point guard, and a coordinating notebook.

A solid birch box built to archive Field Notes memo books — holds 60+ of them, with letterpressed divider tabs and a heat-branded sliding lid. A keepsake for anyone who hoards little notebooks.

Min Jin Lee's third novel, and the one I've been waiting years for. Out 29 September 2026 from 4th Estate — so this one's a preorder.

Kuang doing literary coming-of-age instead of fantasy: a Yale student spends a summer studying Chinese in Taipei and runs into her grandfather's past. Out 8 September 2026 — preorder.

Fifteen new stories from Ken Liu on imagination, identity, and connection. UK hardback out 3 September 2026 — also a preorder.

Forsyth walks through the rhetorical figures — alliteration, chiasmus, diacope — that make a phrase stick, using everything from Shakespeare to Katy Perry. A book about why some sentences sound inevitable and others don't.

Palahniuk's craft book: the postcards, rules, and stories from thirty years of writing and teaching workshops. Less 'how to write a novel', more 'here's every trick that actually worked'. The kind of book I'd underline until it fell apart.

A one-of-a-kind cookbook that celebrates how deeply food and family shape our identity — 80+ plant-based Korean recipes woven with personal stories. James Beard Award winner and NYT bestseller.

Jesse Jenkins' debut cookbook: 100+ inventive recipes that start with one humble vegetable and end up somewhere delicious. Sunday Times bestseller, and Jamie Oliver calls it a love letter to mighty veg.

Weight-adjustable stainless steel cooking presses, handcrafted in Oakland. They're vented, so food cooks 20–30% faster and releases moisture instead of steaming — crispier bacon, flatter grilled cheese, better-seared everything. The starter set is one 8 oz and two 13 oz presses.

The 1880 epic behind the chariot-race film: a Jewish prince betrayed into the galleys, clawing his way back through Rome and Jerusalem while Jesus' story runs alongside his. Wordsworth Classics edition, complete and unabridged, and cheap enough to guilt-free annotate.

Milton's blank-verse epic of the Fall — Satan cast out, Eden lost, and the most charismatic villain in English poetry. Penguin Classics edition edited by John Leonard, with the full notes you actually need for a 1667 poem.