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Upcoming Events:

Flashlight: A Novel By Susan Choi Cover Image
Booksmith presents: Susan Choi with R.O. Kwon / Flashlight
June 5, 2025 - 7:00pm
Psilocybin Mushrooms in Their Natural Habitats: A Guide to the History, Identification, and Use of Psychoactive Fungi By Paul Stamets Cover Image
In-store Signing: Paul Stamets / Psilocybin Mushrooms in Their Natural Habitats
June 11, 2025 - 4:00pm
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil By V. E. Schwab Cover Image
Booksmith presents: V.E. Schwab for Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
June 13, 2025 - 7:00pm
The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex By Melissa Febos Cover Image
Melissa Febos with Carvell Wallace / The Dry Season
June 17, 2025 - 7:00pm


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New Hardcover Fiction (Full List)

  • The Emperor of Gladness: Oprah's Book Club: A Novel By Ocean Vuong Cover Image
  • O Sinners!: A Novel By Nicole Cuffy Cover Image
  • Fish Tales: A Novel By Nettie Jones Cover Image
  • Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth By Maggie Nelson Cover Image
  • Stop Me If You've Heard This One: A Novel By Kristen Arnett Cover Image
  • Gabriele By Anne Berest, Claire Berest, Tina Kover (Translator) Cover Image

New Paperback Fiction (Full List)

  • Misrecognition: A Novel By Madison Newbound Cover Image
  • The Island By Antigone Kefala, Madeleine Watts (Introduction by) Cover Image
  • Hum: A Novel By Helen Phillips Cover Image
  • The Safekeep By Yael van der Wouden Cover Image
  • In Tongues: A Novel By Thomas Grattan Cover Image
  • The Deserters By Mathias Enard, Charlotte Mandell (Translated by) Cover Image

New Hardcover Nonfiction (Full List)

  • So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color By Caro De Robertis Cover Image
  • Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present By Sarah Ruhl Cover Image
  • Speaking in Tongues By J. M. Coetzee, Mariana Dimópulos Cover Image
  • Questions Without Answers By Sarah Manguso, Liana Finck (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco By Gary Krist Cover Image
  • Carbon: The Book of Life By Paul Hawken Cover Image

New Paperback Nonfiction (Full List)

  • Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism By Amanda Montell Cover Image
  • Another Word for Love: A Memoir By Carvell Wallace Cover Image
  • The Rituals of Dinner By Margaret Visser Cover Image
  • On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy (Field Notes #9) By Ira Wells Cover Image
  • There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension By Hanif Abdurraqib Cover Image
  • The Living Mountain By Nan Shepherd, Robert Macfarlane (Introduction by), Jenny Odell (Afterword by) Cover Image

Bestsellers (Full List)

  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being By Rick Rubin Cover Image
  • Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir By Dolly Alderton Cover Image
  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics) By Joan Didion Cover Image
  • How To Write An Autobiographical Novel: Essays By Alexander Chee Cover Image
  • Crying in H Mart: A Memoir By Michelle Zauner Cover Image
  • And Then? And Then? What Else? By Daniel Handler, Lemony Snicket Cover Image

Booksmith Staff Favorites (Full List)

  • The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On By Franny Choi Cover Image
  • The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 By Rashid Khalidi Cover Image
  • Bright Dead Things: Poems By Ada Limón Cover Image
  • Quantum Listening (Terra Ignota #2) By Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Anderson (Introduction by), Ione (Foreword by) Cover Image
  • Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch: A Novel By Rivka Galchen Cover Image
  • Pink Flamingos: A Screenplay By John Waters Cover Image

Kids Books (Full List)

  • A Seed Will Grow (A Hello!Lucky Hands-On Book): An Interactive Board Book (A Hello!Lucky Book) By Hello!Lucky, Eunice Moyle, Sabrina Moyle Cover Image
  • My First Book of Coffee (My Cool Family) By Robyn Wall, Lydia Nichols (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Ahoy! By Sophie Blackall Cover Image
  • Mabel and the Mountain: A Story About Believing in Yourself By Kim Hillyard, Kim Hillyard (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Invisible Things By Andy J. Pizza, Sophie Miller Cover Image
  • Blood City Rollers By V.P. Anderson, Tatiana Hill (Illustrator) Cover Image

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