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Upcoming Events:

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America By Heather Cox Richardson Cover Image
SOLD OUT: Heather Cox Richardson with Rebecca Solnit / Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
October 4, 2023 - 7:00pm
Artificial: A Love Story By Amy Kurzweil Cover Image
Amy Kurzweil with Daniel Gumbiner / Launch for Artificial: A Love Story
October 17, 2023 - 7:00pm
The Way Forward (The Inward Trilogy) By Yung Pueblo Cover Image
Yung Pueblo with Cecily Mak / The Way Forward
October 18, 2023 - 7:00pm
Tremor: A Novel By Teju Cole Cover Image
BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Teju Cole / Tremor
October 23, 2023 - 7:00pm


Introducing Books not Bans

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New Hardcover Fiction (Full List)

  • The Invisible Hour: A Novel By Alice Hoffman Cover Image
  • Open Throat: A Novel By Henry Hoke Cover Image
  • The Guest: A Novel By Emma Cline Cover Image
  • Silver Nitrate By Silvia Moreno-Garcia Cover Image
  • My Murder: A Novel By Katie Williams Cover Image
  • The Book By Mary Ruefle 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
  • Staff Pick Badge
    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)

  • Pageboy: A Memoir By Elliot Page Cover Image
  • National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home By Anya von Bremzen Cover Image
  • Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World By John Vaillant Cover Image
  • To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse By Howard Fishman Cover Image
  • They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us By Prachi Gupta Cover Image
  • Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America By Julia Lee Cover Image

New Paperback Nonfiction (Full List)

  • I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood By Jessi Klein Cover Image
  • Staff Pick Badge
    The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity By David Graeber, David Wengrow Cover Image
  • Staff Pick Badge
    Solito: A Memoir By Javier Zamora Cover Image
  • France: An Adventure History By Graham Robb Cover Image
  • Staff Pick Badge
    How to Raise an Antiracist By Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image
  • Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath By Bill Browder Cover Image

Bestsellers (Full List)

  • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1) By bell hooks Cover Image
  • The Story of Art Without Men By Katy Hessel Cover Image
  • Staff Pick Badge
    Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel By Gabrielle Zevin Cover Image
  • Staff Pick Badge
    Nightcrawling: A novel By Leila Mottley Cover Image
  • Let Us Descend: A Novel By Jesmyn Ward Cover Image
  • The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself By Yrsa Daley-Ward Cover Image

Booksmith Staff Favorites (Full List)

  • Dance Dance Dance (Vintage International) By Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum (Translated by) Cover Image
  • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World By Anand Giridharadas Cover Image
  • PTSD By Guillaume Singelin Cover Image
  • Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns By Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern Cover Image
  • Certain Dark Things: A Novel By Silvia Moreno-Garcia Cover Image
  • Sedating Elaine: A novel By Dawn Winter Cover Image

Kids Books (Full List)

  • The Stolen Heir: A Novel of Elfhame By Holly Black Cover Image
  • Five Survive By Holly Jackson Cover Image
  • Hot Dog: (Winner of the 2023 Caldecott Medal) By Doug Salati Cover Image
  • Twenty Questions By Mac Barnett, Christian Robinson (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Hilo Book 9: Gina and the Last City on Earth: (A Graphic Novel) By Judd Winick Cover Image
  • Bird House By Blanca Gómez (Illustrator), Blanca Gómez Cover Image

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