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
Tuesday, February 7, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Peter Turchi in conversation with Austin Kleon
Peter Turchi in conversation with Austin Kleon discussing (Don't) Stop Me if You've Heard This Before (and Other Essays on Writing Fiction) - by Peter Turchi - published by Trinity University Press
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Staff Picks
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Dawn
Sevgi Soysal $20.00 Add to cart -
The Guest Lecture
Martin Riker $17.00 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 -
Beatrice Likes the Dark
April Genevieve Tucholke $18.95 Add to cart -
The Mountain in the Sea
Ray Nayler $28.00 Add to cart -
Alindarka’s Children: Things Will Be Bad
Alhierd Bacharevic $19.95 Add to cart -
Nightcrawling
Leila Mottley $28.00 Add to cart -
Pure Colour
Sheila Heti $26.00 Add to cart -
Manywhere: Stories
Morgan Thomas $26.00 Add to cart -
His Name Was Death
Rafael Bernal $15.95 Add to cart -
A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce
Massimo Montanari $18.00 Add to cart -
Bee Reaved
Dodie Bellamy $17.95 Add to cart -
We Run the Tides
Vendela Vida $16.99 Add to cart -
Lovers of Today
Garrett Caples $18.00 Add to cart -
Palestine +100: Stories from a Century After the Nakba
Basma Ghalayini $15.95 Add to cart -
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke $17.00 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 -
In the Country of Others
Leila Slimani $26.00 Add to cart -
Honey Mine: Collected Stories
Camille Roy $17.95 Add to cart -
Nohow on: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho
Samuel Beckett $15.00 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 -
In Still Rooms
Constantine Jones $18.00 Add to cart -
Creatures of Passage
Morowa Yejidé $25.00 Add to cart -
Dawn
Octavia E Butler $16.99 Add to cart -
Double Trio: Tej Bet, So’s Notice, Nerve Church: Limited Edition Box Set
Nathaniel Mackey $65.00 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 War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
Andrew Delbanco $18.00 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 -
Someone’s Dead Already
Tongo Eisen-Martin $15.00 Add to cart -
Family and Borghesia
Natalia Ginzburg $16.95 Add to cart -
Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977-1997
Kevin Killian $29.95 Add to cart -
City of Night
John Rechy $18.00 Add to cart -
Sing to It: Stories
Amy Hempel $16.00 Add to cart -
Dance on Saturday: Stories
Elwin Cotman $17.00 Add to cart -
The Salt Eaters
Toni Cade Bambara $15.95 Add to cart -
Alienation and Freedom
Frantz Fanon $48.00 Add to cart -
Black Futures
Kimberly Drew $40.00 Add to cart
Books We Love
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Metamaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus [With CDROM]
Art Spiegelman $35.00 Add to cart -
Great Short Books: A Year of Reading–Briefly
Kenneth C Davis $28.00 Add to cart -
Good Night, Little Bookstore
Amy Cherrix $17.99 Add to cart -
Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America
Denise Gigante $38.00 Add to cart -
A Poetics of the Press: Interviews with Poets, Printers, & Publishers
Kyle Schlesinger $30.00 Add to cart -
Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books
Jess McHugh $18.00 Add to cart -
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
Ross King $20.00 Add to cart -
Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press
Jeff Weddle $25.00 Add to cart -
In Praise of Good Bookstores
Jeff Deutsch $19.95 Add to cart -
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home
Alexander Wolff $18.00 Add to cart -
Bookstores: A Celebration of Independent Booksellers
Horst A Friedrichs $45.00 Add to cart -
The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History
Edward Brooke-Hitching $29.95 Add to cart -
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester $16.99 Add to cart -
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List
James Mustich $35.00 Add to cart -
The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures (Gifts for Book Lovers, Gifts for Librarians, Book Club Gift)
Library of Congress $35.00 Add to cart -
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
Lewis Buzbee $15.00 Add to cart -
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak $14.99 Add to cart -
Book Scavenger
Jennifer Chambliss Bertman $8.99 Add to cart -
Fahrenheit 451 (Reissue)
Ray D Bradbury $17.00 Add to cart -
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges $16.00 Add to cart -
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón $18.00 Add to cart -
The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature
Peter Mendelsund $50.00 Add to cart