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, September 27, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Karen Cook-Bell in conversation with Nikki M. Taylor
City Lights and Cambridge University Press celebrate the publication of two new books: Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America - by Karen Cook-Bell and Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance - by Nikki M. Taylor- both books published by Cambridge University Press
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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 -
American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Oppenheimer
Kai Bird $25.00 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
Featured Titles
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The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx $22.00 Add to cart -
Tropic of Capricorn
Henry Miller $16.00 Add to cart -
July’s People
Nadine Gordimer $16.00 Add to cart -
Into the Beautiful North
Luis Alberto Urrea $16.99 Add to cart -
In the Night Kitchen: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner (Anniversary)
Maurice Sendak $18.95 Add to cart -
Goethe’s Faust
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe $15.00 Add to cart -
Love in the Time of Cholera: Introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare
Gabriel Garcia Marquez $28.00 Add to cart -
The Flowers of Evil: (Les Fleurs Du Mal)
Charles Baudelaire $16.95 Add to cart -
Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Anniversary)
Walt Whitman $18.00 Add to cart -
Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale
Herman Melville $16.00 Add to cart