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  • Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets, artists, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. To participate in...

  • Jessamyn Stanley, Every Body Yoga

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    This event will be a part of Bookshop Santa Cruz's Women's Voices effort in August. You can read more about the program here. Bookshop is delighted...

  • Non-Fiction Discussion Group

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Sapiens by Yuval Harari One hundred thousand years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens....

  • R.O. Kwon presents THE INCENDIARIES (w/ Nayomi Munaweera)

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is very excited to welcome one of our dear friends, R.O. Kwon to discuss her debut novel, The Incendiaries, on Tuesday, August 14th at 7pm. Joining...

  • Paula Saunders, The Distance Home

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop welcomes Paula Saunders for a reading and signing of her riveting novel, The Distance Home. This event is part of our Debuts of Summer series. In...

  • Middle Grade Writers’ Craft Discussion Group

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend The Middle Grade Writers’ Craft Discussion Group meets monthly to discuss children’s novels aimed at a...

  • Perfectly Queer: Queer Authors read other Queer Authors

    Dog Eared Books Castro 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Queer authors Jim Provenzano, Margo Perin, Baruch Porras-Hernandez, and Nona Caspers read from their favorite Queer authors

  • BINDERY: Virgie Tovar / You Have the Right to Remain Fat

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts Virgie Tovar for the launch of her first book,You Have the Right to Remain Fat. Please join us!   Growing up as a fat girl,...

  • Anil Ananthaswamy discusses Through Two Doors at Once

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Tuesday, August 14, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Anil Ananthaswamy discusses Through Two Doors at Once: the intellectual adventure story of the "double-slit" experiment, showing how a sunbeam...

  • Paul Matthew Maisano

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Paul Matthew Maisano discusses his debut novel, Bindi. Praise for Bindi “Reading Paul Matthew Maisano’s BINDI was a revelation.This is the prose I’ve been looking for―worldly...

  • BOOKSMITH: Launch for Vanessa Hua / A River of Stars

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Booksmith welcomes Vanessa Hua (Deceit and Other Possibilities) back to the store to launch her debut novel, A River of Stars. Joining her in conversation is Zyzzyva managing editor Oscar Villalon....

  • InsideStorytime WILDSTYLE

    THE LAUNDRY 3359 26th Street, San Francisco

    will feature Kirsten Chen (Bury What We Cannot Take), Dickson Lam (Paper Sons), Peter Clarke (Apocryphal Pataphysics), Lisa Galloway, and Lila Vasudevan. The Thursday September 20th, 7-9pm, InsideStorytime at Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster...

  • Ingrid Rojas Contreras presents FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Ingrid Rojas Contreras to discuss her novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree on Thursday, August 16th at 7pm. Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy...

  • Clifford Mae Henderson, Perfect Little Worlds

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz is pleased to present award-winning author Clifford Mae Henderson for a book discussion and signing of her new novel set in Santa Cruz...

  • John Copenhaver and Paddy Hirsch

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

          Paddy Hirsch and John Copenhaver discuss their new novels, The Devil's Half Mile and Dodging and Burning. About The Devil's Half Mile Seven years after...

  • Lisa Locascio and Kate Folk

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Lisa Locascio discusses her new novel, Open Me with Kate Folk. Praise for Open Me “Locascio’s story of a young American abroad is unflinching in its portrayal...

  • Gretchen McNeil with Stephanie Kuehn

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Discover the true horror of social media in #murdertrending by critically-acclaimed author Gretchen McNeil Think Scream Queens meets The Hunger Games, in which seventeen-year-old Dee...

  • Poets @ Play

    Edwin Markham House in History Park 1650 Senter Road, San Jose, United States

    Sunday, August 19, 1pm-3:30pm this month: Jarvis Subia Edwin Markham House in History Park 1650 Senter Road, San José, CA 95112 Admission FREE Free parking...

  • David Corbett with Cara Black

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with David Corbett (The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday) and Cara Black (Murder on the Left Bank) for their new books. Please join us!...

  • Fiction Discussion Group

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    The Girl who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen Emily Benedict has come to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the...

  • an evening with williwaw

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The highly protracted world tour lives ever on, as our amp'd uke comrade williwaw applies a sonic salve to the Paris of the West with some fine...

  • North Beach Poetry Reading with Heather Bourbeau and Steven Gray

    North Beach, SF Public Library 850 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Come listen to Heather Bourbeau and Steven Gray read their works as part of Tuesdays at North Beach, a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally...

  • The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night : Kelechi Ubozoh

    PianoFight 144 Taylor St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    at PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy), San Francisco, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART Hosted by Jennifer Barone, Ingrid Keir, live jazz with Daniel Heffez, Geordie Van Der...

  • D. Wystan Owen presents OTHER PEOPLE’S LOVE AFFAIRS

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes D. Wystan Owen to discuss his story collection, Other People's Love Affairs, on Tuesday, August 21st at 7pm. In the ten luminous stories of D. Wystan...

  • Queer Authors read other Queer Authors

    Laurel Book Store 1423 Broadway, Oakland , CA, United States

    Queer authors Natasha Dennerstein, Gar McVey-Russel, Anand Vedawala, Vernon Keeve III, and Luiza Flynn-Goodlett read from their favorite Queer authors. Laurel Bookstore will be closing...

  • Books & Brews: Book Swap

    Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing 402 Ingalls Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Book Swap! At Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing 402 Ingalls Street, Santa Cruz Event #4 of Bookshop’s 2018 Books & Brews Passport Series Have you ever loved a book...