It’s time to rearrange that summer TBR stack to make room for a new season of exciting books from Minnesota authors and publishers. We hope this clip-and-save list will help you make reading decisions through the winter. (Descriptions of books that have not yet arrived are from the publishers.)

SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER

“Literary Voyagers”: by Andrew Wittkop (Belt Publishing) — Retelling of the 19th-century true story of the complicated friendship between British author Anna Brownell Jameson and Jane Johnson Schoolcraft, an Ojibwe American poet and translator married to geologist and Indian agent Henry Schoolcraft. Starred review in Publishers Weekly.

“The Names of the New World”: by Kawai Strong Washburn (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) — In his second novel, Washburn tells an epic and intimate story following characters across decades and continents as they grapple with climate upheaval, displacement and the search for belonging in a changing world, beginning with a catastrophic superstorm through Minnesota that levels neighborhoods and plunges the state into darkness. Washburn, born and raised on the Big Island of Hawai’i, is considered one of the most distinctive and important voices in contemporary fiction.

“Phantom Limb”: by Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press) — Follow-up to the author’s 2016 novel “Last Days,” this one includes psychological horror, biting literary prose and underground amputation cults.

“The Babysitter Tree”: by Molly Beth Griffin, illustrations by Jennifer A. Bell (Minnesota Historical Society Press) — Mama black bear leaves her cubs to forage and the little ones tumble and play, until a coyote gets their scent. They climb a tree, hoping Mom will return in time.

“Blue Bearies”: by Brenda J. Child (Bine), illustrations by Jonathan Thunder, translation by Gordon Jourdain (Minnesota Historical Society Press) — In this much anticipated follow-up to the bestselling “Bowwow Powwow,” Windy Girl and her classmates learn to appreciate our bear relatives and the wisdom that comes from observing their antics and actions in northland settings.

“ISHKODE: A Story of Fire”: by Evan Larson and Nisogaabokwe Melonee Montano, Illustrated by Moira (Miri) Villiard (University of Minnesota Press) — This children’s picture book brings readers into the beautiful, ancient red pines where a grandmother guides a young woman toward healing and renewal through fire, weaving Anishinaabe teachings with the science of tree rings that reveal the deep relationships between people, fire, pines and the wider ecosystem.

“Erratica”: by Brian Laidlaw (Milkweed Editions) — Subtitled “On Climbing, Language, and Touching Stone,” this nonfiction is part adventure narrative, part philosophical inquiry, part love letter to climbing and natural spaces.

“SINKHOLE: A Personal History of Loss and Land”: by Juliet Patterson (Milkweed Editions) — An exploration of sinkholes as a metaphor for what is kept buried — family history, masculinity, violence and the unspoken forces that shape people and place. A blend of personal, political and environmental histories.

“WALKING MY ANCESTORS’ PATH: A Collection of Paintings and Stories”: by Sam Zimmerman (Minnesota Historical Society Press) — The Ojibwe culture and stories that were and continue to be part of the history of Voyageurs National Park, from a direct descendant of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

“WATER, CARBON, TIME: Exploring Peatlands in a Warming World”: by Jennifer de Mooy (University of Minnesota Press) — The importance of bogs, fens, mires and moors often overlooked but crucial to our planetary well being.

“We”: by Layli Long Soldier (Graywolf Press) — Author of the award-winning “Whereas” examines what it means to be in community, to be in relation to family, nation, history and language. “We” is the first person plural, the pronoun of inclusion in English as well as the Lakota word meaning “blood” — what is shared and what is shed. Made up of poems, lyric essays, and her visual artworks presented in full color.

“EXIT, MISS SAIGON: An American Memoir”: by David Mura (University of Minnesota Press) — Poet, writer of creative nonfiction and fiction, critic and playwright who is a godfather in the Twin Cities literary community, writes about being a second generation Japanese American raised to consider himself a white person and how his journey toward understanding his Asianness was a fraught road. His opposition to the St. Paul performances of the play “Miss Saigon” made him enemies but created a deeper connection with other BIPOC writers, eventually starting an Asian American arts organization in the Twin Cities. Mura will launch his book at 7 p.m. Oct. 7 at Theater Mu, 755 N. Prior Ave., St. Paul. The program is free and open to the public.

“End of the Road Cookbook”: by Crystal Schlueter (Minnesota Historical Society Press) — Traditional favorites of the Iron Range.

“NICK OF TIME: Women Write about Art and Aging”: edited by Julie Landsman, Debra J. Stone and Morgan Grayce Willow (University of Minnesota Press) — Bringing together the voices of women creatives over the age of 65, this collection is as varied as the artists’ vocations, spanning narrative prose to poetry, essay, monologue, letters and more. Topics include their feeling invisible in older age, receiving less recognition or being dismissed.

“AN OJIBWE HOME IN THE CITY: White Earth Women and Community Organizing in Minneapolis”: by Sasha Maria Suarez (University of Minnesota Press) — The histories of Louise and Emily Peake, Winnie Jourdain, Ignatia Broker and other Ojibwe women who endeavored to make space for Native families in south Minneapolis. From the 1930s through the 1970s they built institutions, secured services, and fought for culturally-grounded education.

“The Red Wing Way”: by Dave Kenney (Minnesota Historical Society Press) — Rare archival images and profiles of pivotal moments in the history of the Red Wing Shoe Company founded in 1905.

“RAISING BILINGUAL BAMBINI: The Art of Immersing Our Family in La Dolce Vita”: by Eric Dregni ( University of Minnesota Press) — This memoir/travelogue is a testament to the value of an international perspective, and loving tribute to the Dregni family’s time in Italy and a reflection on what it meant to return to Minnesota. From the author of “In Cod We Trust” and “Never Trust a Thin Cook.”

“ROMANTIC SENSATION: The Queer Lives of Leon A. Belmont, 1853-1927”: by Lizzie Ehrenhalt (University of Minnesota Press) — The true story of a person assigned a female sex at birth living as a woman for 25 years until she transitioned ln 1878, living as a man for 24 years before making a second gender transition and living as Nova McClure Carr for the rest of her life.

“THE SPIRIT OF FEARLESS LIVING: A Hmong Journey Through War and Refuge”: by Kao Choua Vue (Minnesota Historical Society Press) — A personal account of war and survival as told by the author’s Hmong mother, who endured bombings, famine and forced displacement during the U.S. secret war in Laos.

NOVEMBER / DECEMBER

“Guns Like Lightning”: by Hampton Smith (Minnesota Historical Society Press) — The story of the 1st Minnesota Light Artillery in the Civil War and how they participated in most of the major western campaigns.

“LONGSHIPS AND SOD HOUSES: A Thousand-Year Journey from Viking Iceland to the Dakota Plains”: by Gary Goodman (University of Minnesota Press) — A direct descendant of a 10th-century Viking marauder traces his lineage from medieval Iceland to the Dakota plains, from the Viking invasion of England in the early Middle Ages to the disappearance of a short-lived Icelandic settlement on the Mouse River in North Dakota in the late 1800s. His ancestor was a cold-blooded killer named “Egil the Bastard” subject of “Egil’s Saga,” one of the great Icelandic epics.

“ROOTED IN THE NORTH: The Lives and Lore of Twenty Minnesota Nature Writers”: by Mark Neuzil (University of Minnesota Press) — A collection of non-fiction and fiction voices that showed generations how to appreciate Minnesota’s wild places, including Sigurd Olson, Helen Hoover, Gary Paulsen and Fred Manfred.

“Rough Cuts”: by Glenn R. Miller (Koehler Books) — From the author of “Doorman Wanted” comes a novel that follows a silent film director who has just completed his masterpiece, which is drastically cut by a young minister appointed to a 1926 film censorship board, hoping his opposition to the film will earn him fame.

“The Bewitched”: by Jules Barbey D’Aurevilly (University of Minnesota Press) — A novel of passion and betrayal, published in 1853, is back in Raymond N. MacKenzie’s new translation. It is considered a classic of French Gothic literature, blending religious transgression, satanic possession, and political upheaval into a fatal love story.

“Our Hours Are Married to Shadow”: by Nghiem Tran (Coffee House Press) — Book-length poem from the author of “We’re Safe When We’re Alone,” about a young man who undergoes electroconvulsive shock to quiet memories of childhood trauma, alienating himself from his partner, clashing over how to address and cope with mental illness.