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.
Events
Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 6:30 pm PST
Sonali Kolhatkar in conversation with Cat Brooks
Presented by KPFA and the Berkeley Public Library City Lights celebrates the publication of Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice - by Sonali Kolhatkar - Foreword by: Rinku Sen - Published by City Lights Books
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Staff Picks
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Those Bones Are Not My Child
Toni Cade Bambara $24.00 Add to cart -
Lone Women
Victor Lavalle $27.00 Add to cart -
Dawn
Sevgi Soysal $20.00 Add to cart -
The Guest Lecture
Martin Riker $17.00 Add to cart -
The Hummingbird
Sandro Veronesi $17.99 Add to cart -
Forbidden Notebook
Alba de Céspedes $26.00 Add to cart -
Something about a Bear
Jackie Morris $29.95 Add to cart -
The World and All That It Holds
Aleksandar Hemon $28.00 Add to cart -
Brotherless Night
V V Ganeshananthan $28.00 Add to cart -
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
Robin Coste Lewis $35.00 Add to cart
Featured Titles
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Decapitated Poetry
Ko-Hua Chen $21.00 Add to cart -
The Sorrows of Others
Ada Zhang $18.00 Add to cart -
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
Chen Chen $16.00 Add to cart -
I Was the President’s Mistress!!
Miguel Syjuco $20.00 Add to cart -
Sea Change
Gina Chung $17.00 Add to cart -
Magnolia: Poems
Nina Mingya Powles $16.95 Add to cart -
Ma and Me: A Memoir
Putsata Reang $28.00 Add to cart -
Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit in
Phuc Tran $18.99 Add to cart -
Return Engagements: Contemporary Art’s Traumas of Modernity and History in Sà i Gòn and Phnom Penh
Viet Lê $28.95 Add to cart -
Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam
Thy Phu $25.95 Add to cart