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, May 30, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Book Signing / Reception for Eddie Muller's Noir Bar: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir
City Lights, Tosca Cafe, Running Press, and TCM celebrate the publication of Eddie Muller's Noir Bar: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir - by Eddie Muller - Published by Running Press - Eddie Muller will appear in-person to sign books. This signing will take place at Tosca Cafe, 242 Columbus Ave. San Francisco, CA 94133
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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 -
Flux
Jinwoo Chong $28.99 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