“Perfect Day publishes infrequently but always makes something worth your time.” -The Willamette Week, 2021

Our tenth title, Joshua James Amberson’s Staring Contest: Essays about Eyes, was released on May 16, 2023. Staring Contest was named one of the Willamette Week’s “best books of 2023” and is now available as an audiobook.

Our ninth title, which we co-released with Street Books, came out on October 5, 2021. Loaners: The Making of a Street Library was co-written by Ben Hodgson and Laura Moulton and is available now.

Our eighth title, Mohamed Asem's Stranger in the Pen, is available now.

Our seventh title, sung's What About the Rest of Your Life, was a 2018 Lambda Literary Award finalist.

Perfect Day is distributed by Propeller Books. Bookstores can place bulk orders here.

Martha Grover’s memoir The End of My Career was a 2017 Oregon Book Award finalist. “Martha Grover is the voice of Portland right now,” raved the Portland Mercury in their fall arts guide. Perfect Day received a 2017 Oregon Literary Fellowship.

Nick Jaina’s Get It While You Can was a 2016 Oregon Book Award finalist in creative nonfiction. Nick toured Europe and North America throughout 2015 and 2016 in support of his “wonderful, timely debut memoir.”

Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life reached #1 on the Powell’s bestseller list in May, 2012.

Perfect Day’s entire catalog made the Portland Mercury’s 2011 ‘best local’ list: “These books would’ve made it onto this list on their own merits, but they also mark the debut of a noteworthy new Portland publisher.”

Trailer: Yeah. No. Totally. from Perfect Day Publishing on Vimeo.
VIDEO CREDITS

V/O: Lisa Wells & Eli Hopkins
Art: Brooke Thompson
Editing & Everything Hard to Do: Jeremy Bird