New
The Long Winter of Sparrow Creek
One family, one farm, and the longest February on record — a debut of uncommon patience and warmth.
An independent publishing house — Johnston, Iowa
A quieter
kind of publishing
house.
We are Agraphos — from the Greek ἄγραφος, unwritten. A small press making literary fiction worth keeping, and coloring books worth living in. Every title below is one quiet click from your mailbox.
01The shelf
New from the press this season.
One-click buying — every button opens secure Stripe checkout in a new tab. Printed and bound in the USA. Shipped from Johnston, Iowa.
New
Where the Light Gathers
A slow-burning novel of coastlines and second chances, told in the hour before the lamps come on.
Staff pick
The Cartographer's Daughter
1741. A young woman finishes her father's forbidden atlas — and redraws the edge of the known world.
New
Static
A late-night radio host takes one call too many. A thriller tuned to the frequency of dread.
02The masthead
Four voices, one house.
The writers of Agraphos — novelists of the Midwest, the coast, the past, and the very late night.
03The coloring library
Unfinished pages, on purpose.
Every page may be photocopied by the original purchaser for personal coloring enjoyment — so go ahead, color the fox twice.
Botanical Hours
Wildflowers wound around clock hands — sixty-four plates to color at whatever pace the day allows.
The Quiet Coast
Lighthouses, shells and slow weather — a shoreline you can keep on the kitchen table.
Gift favorite
Mandala Seasons
Eighty mandalas that turn with the year — blossom, sun, leaf and snow, one deep breath at a time.
New
Wildwood
Foxes, owls and deer among the ferns — a storybook forest, unwritten until you color it.
04The colophon
Why “agraphos”?
ἄγραφος — Greek, adjective: unwritten. Not empty; waiting. We chose the name because every book begins as nothing until a writer, and then a reader, sets it down.
Agraphos Publishing is a small independent house. We keep our list short on purpose: a handful of novels each season, and a coloring library built for slow afternoons. Every edition is printed and bound in the United States, designed on a real desk, and shipped by people who have read the book you're holding.
We answer letters. We don't chase trends. We believe a book is one of the last objects that asks nothing of you except an evening.
8Titles in print
4Authors on the roster
1Small Iowa press