City Lights is a landmark general bookstore, internationally known for our expert selection of titles and our commitment to free intellectual inquiry.
Founded in 1953 as the nation’s first all-paperback bookstore, we now offer both hardcovers and paperbacks from all of the major publishing houses, along with an impressive range of titles from smaller, specialty publishers. Our shop features an extensive selection of poetry, fiction, translations, politics, history, philosophy, music, spirituality, and more, with a staff whose special interests in many fields contribute to the hand-picked quality of what you see on the shelves.
New Releases
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Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
Sasha Lapointe $25.00 Add to cart -
Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
John Markoff $32.00 Add to cart -
Rebel Speak: A Justice Movement Mixtapevolume 2
Bryonn Rolly Bain $24.95 Add to cart -
America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
Treva B Lindsey $24.95 Add to cart -
Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments
Erin L Thompson $25.95 Add to cart -
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds
Thomas Halliday $28.99 Add to cart -
Moon Witch, Spider King
Marlon James $30.00 Add to cart -
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Zora Neale Hurston $29.99 Add to cart -
Worn: A People’s History of Clothing
Sofi Thanhauser $30.00 Add to cart -
Beasts of a Little Land
Juhea Kim $27.99 Add to cart -
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber $35.00 Add to cart -
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones $38.00 Add to cart -
In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
J P Daughton $30.00 Add to cart
Events
Saturday, July 9, 2022, 11:00 am PST
James Kelman in conversation with Alan Black
Booker Prize-winning novelist James Kelman in conversation with Alan Black discussing Kelman's new novel God's Teeth and Other Phenomena published by PM Press.
Virtual
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Event
Staff Picks
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Pure Colour
Sheila Heti $26.00 Add to cart -
Olga Dies Dreaming
Xochitl Gonzalez $27.99 Add to cart -
Manywhere: Stories
Morgan Thomas $26.00 Add to cart -
A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce
Massimo Montanari $18.00 Add to cart -
Cruel Fiction
Wendy Trevino $16.00 Add to cart -
Bee Reaved
Dodie Bellamy $17.95 Add to cart -
We Run the Tides
Vendela Vida $16.99 Add to cart -
Goodbye, Vitamin
Rachel Khong $16.00 Add to cart -
Lovers of Today
Garrett Caples $18.00 Add to cart -
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters $18.00 Add to cart -
Grievers
Adrienne Maree Brown $15.00 Add to cart -
Laserwriter II
Tamara Shopsin $26.00 Add to cart -
Matrix
Lauren Groff $28.00 Add to cart -
The History of Bones: A Memoir
John Lurie $28.00 Add to cart -
Model Citizen: A Memoir
Joshua Mohr $27.00 Add to cart -
In the Country of Others
Leila Slimani $26.00 Add to cart -
Honey Mine: Collected Stories
Camille Roy $17.95 Add to cart -
The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club
Doug Henderson $16.00 Add to cart -
Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover
Annie Sprinkle $29.95 Add to cart -
Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar $16.99 Add to cart -
Transversal: Poems
Urayoán Noel $16.95 Add to cart -
In Still Rooms
Constantine Jones $18.00 Add to cart -
I Am, Am I, to Trust the Joy That Joy Is No More or Less There Now Than Before
Evan Kennedy $18.95 Add to cart -
Creatures of Passage
Morowa Yejidé $25.00 Add to cart -
Dawn
Octavia E Butler $16.99 Add to cart -
Sarahland
Sam Cohen $24.00 Add to cart -
Double Trio: Tej Bet, So’s Notice, Nerve Church: Limited Edition Box Set
Nathaniel Mackey $65.00 Add to cart -
Collected Poems
Sonia Sanchez $29.95 Add to cart -
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories
Mariana Enriquez $27.00 Add to cart -
Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime
Alex Espinoza $21.99 Add to cart -
Erosion: Essays of Undoing
Terry Tempest Williams $19.00 Add to cart -
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks
Terry Tempest Williams $20.00 Add to cart -
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur $18.95 Add to cart -
Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories
Samuel R Delany $17.95 Add to cart -
Exhalation
Ted Chiang $17.00 Add to cart -
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino $18.00 Add to cart -
Finna: Poems
Nate Marshall $17.00 Add to cart -
Fever Dream
Samanta Schweblin $17.00 Add to cart -
The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories
Yukiko Motoya $16.95 Add to cart -
Where the Wild Ladies Are
Aoko Matsuda $16.95 Add to cart -
Birthday
César Aira $13.95 Add to cart -
Family and Borghesia
Natalia Ginzburg $14.95 Add to cart -
Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977-1997
Kevin Killian $29.95 Add to cart -
Verge
Lidia Yuknavitch $16.00 Add to cart -
Intimations: Six Essays
Zadie Smith $10.95 Add to cart -
City of Night
John Rechy $18.00 Add to cart -
Essays and Fictions
Brad Phillips $16.95 Add to cart -
Sing to It: Stories
Amy Hempel $16.00 Add to cart -
Telephone
Percival Everett $16.00 Add to cart -
Dance on Saturday: Stories
Elwin Cotman $17.00 Add to cart -
Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography
Andrea Warner $18.95 Add to cart -
Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
Art Spiegelman $16.95 Add to cart -
Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Art Spiegelman $16.95 Add to cart -
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall $26.00 Add to cart -
Alienation and Freedom
Frantz Fanon $48.00 Add to cart -
Black Futures
Kimberly Drew $40.00 Add to cart -
Little Boy
Lawrence Ferlinghetti $24.00 Add to cart -
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke $27.00 Add to cart
New and Featured Titles
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Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot
Masha Gessen $16.00 Add to cart -
Keith Haring’s Line: Race and the Performance of Desire
Ricardo Montez $23.95 Add to cart -
All the Flowers Kneeling
Paul Tran $18.00 Add to cart -
Ultramarine
Wayne Koestenbaum $19.95 Add to cart -
Punks: New & Selected Poems
John Keene $20.00 Add to cart -
Never Say You Can’t Survive
Charlie Jane Anders $26.99 Add to cart -
Some Styles of Masculinity
Gregg Bordowitz $19.95 Add to cart -
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore $22.95 Add to cart -
Of Solids and Surds: Notes for Noël Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, MIA Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White
Samuel R Delany $18.00 Add to cart -
The Tradition
Jericho Brown $17.00 Add to cart -
Witch Hunt
Connie Butler $60.00 Add to cart -
Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels
Justin Vivian Bond $16.95 Add to cart -
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
Joshua Whitehead $18.95 Add to cart -
Stereo(type): Poems
Jonah Mixon-Webster $18.00 Add to cart -
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World
Kai Cheng Thom $15.95 Add to cart -
Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution
Susan Stryker $18.99 Add to cart -
City of Night
John Rechy $18.00 Add to cart -
Fiebre Tropical
Julián Delgado Lopera $17.95 Add to cart -
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Andrea Lawlor $18.00 Add to cart -
David Wojnarowicz: Flesh of My Flesh
Daniel S Berger $20.00 Add to cart