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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A Working Life
Eileen Myles $26.00 Add to cart -
Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong $17.00 Add to cart -
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
Chen Chen $17.00 Add to cart -
I Want to Be a Vase
Julio Torres $18.99 Add to cart -
Glory Hole
Kim Hyun $24.50 Add to cart -
Selected Poems of Frank O’Hara
Frank O'Hara $21.00 Add to cart -
Punks: New & Selected Poems
John Keene $20.00 Add to cart -
Pamela Sneed $11.87 Add to cart
Funeral Diva
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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 -
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World
Kai Cheng Thom $15.95 Add to cart