Indie-to-Indie Playlists

Every month, publisher members of IPC recommend titles for a specific theme around which booksellers can build displays or build up inventory. This mix of frontlist and backlist titles helps to diversify stock and distinguish indie bookstores from their algorithm-based online competitors.

December 2025

Publisher members of the Independent Publishers Caucus have curated a pair of playlists to help populate and distinguish displays. The theme for December is our annual Holiday Gift Guide, one for Adult Readers and one for Young Readers. Check the list at right for links to these playlists as Edelweiss collections, or peruse the playlists in the tables below.

Holiday Gift Guide

Young Reader’s Holiday Gift Guide

Playlists by Month in Edelweiss

February
Black History Month
March
​Women’s History Month
Indie Press Month
April
National Poetry Month
May
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
June
Queer Pride Month
July
Climate Awareness
Beach Reads
August
Women in Translation
September:
Back to School
Breakout Books
October
Latinx Heritage Month
Spooky Halloween Titles
November
Indigenous Peoples Month
Food Lit & Cookbooks
​December
Holiday Gift Guide

"Young Readers Edition" Playlists in Edelweiss

April
​Spring Break Reads
July
Summer Reading
​September:
Back to School
December
Holiday Gift Guide