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Upcoming Events:

The Golem of Brooklyn: A Novel By Adam Mansbach Cover Image
BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Adam Mansbach with W. Kamau Bell / Launch for The Golem of Brooklyn
September 26, 2023 - 7:00pm

USF presents: Wordnight
September 27, 2023 - 6:00pm
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America By Heather Cox Richardson Cover Image
BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Heather Cox Richardson with Rebecca Solnit / Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
October 4, 2023 - 7:00pm
Death Valley: A Novel By Melissa Broder Cover Image
Melissa Broder / Death Valley
October 11, 2023 - 7:00pm


Introducing Books not Bans

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New Hardcover Fiction (Full List)

  • The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel By James McBride Cover Image
  • Lucky Dogs: A novel By Helen Schulman Cover Image
  • I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home: A novel By Lorrie Moore Cover Image
  • The Late Americans: A Novel By Brandon Taylor Cover Image
  • Crook Manifesto: A Novel By Colson Whitehead Cover Image
  • Hula: A Novel By Jasmin Iolani Hakes Cover Image

New Paperback Fiction (Full List)

  • Look at the Lights, My Love (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) By Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer (Translated by) Cover Image
  • Paradais By Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes (Translated by) Cover Image
  • The Immortal King Rao: A Novel By Vauhini Vara Cover Image
  • Four Treasures of the Sky: A Novel By Jenny Tinghui Zhang Cover Image
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    Nightcrawling: A novel By Leila Mottley Cover Image
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue By V. E. Schwab Cover Image

New Hardcover Nonfiction (Full List)

  • Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World By John Vaillant Cover Image
  • They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us By Prachi Gupta Cover Image
  • George: A Magpie Memoir By Frieda Hughes Cover Image
  • Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World By Gretchen Rubin Cover Image
  • Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures By Connie Wang Cover Image
  • Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles By Kate Flannery Cover Image

New Paperback Nonfiction (Full List)

  • Happy-Go-Lucky By David Sedaris Cover Image
  • I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood By Jessi Klein Cover Image
  • California: An American History By John Mack Faragher Cover Image
  • Bad Gays: A Homosexual History By Huw Lemmey, Ben Miller Cover Image
  • The Unwritten Book: An Investigation By Samantha Hunt Cover Image
  • Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons By Jeremy Denk Cover Image

Bestsellers (Full List)

  • Let Us Descend: A Novel By Jesmyn Ward Cover Image
  • Gay Bar: Why We Went Out By Jeremy Atherton Lin Cover Image
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue By V. E. Schwab Cover Image
  • Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner) By Hernan Diaz Cover Image
  • Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection By Mimi Zhu Cover Image
  • Sweet Enough: A Dessert Cookbook By Alison Roman Cover Image

Booksmith Staff Favorites (Full List)

  • Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns By Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern Cover Image
  • The Waves By Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey Cover Image
  • Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) By Dean Spade Cover Image
  • The Searcher: A Novel By Tana French Cover Image
  • Witch King By Martha Wells Cover Image
  • The Story of a Marriage: A Novel By Andrew Sean Greer Cover Image

Kids Books (Full List)

  • Warrior Girl Unearthed By Angeline Boulley Cover Image
  • Five Survive By Holly Jackson Cover Image
  • Every Body: A First Conversation About Bodies (First Conversations) By Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, Tequitia Andrews (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • My Baba's Garden By Jordan Scott, Sydney Smith (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • The Hospital Book By Lisa Brown Cover Image
  • Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea: A Graphic Novel (Dog Man #11): From the Creator of Captain Underpants By Dav Pilkey, Dav Pilkey (Illustrator) Cover Image

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