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Black Women Writers at Work
Claudia Tate $24.95 Add to cart -
Living a Feminist Life
Sara Ahmed $28.95 Add to cart -
Wanting: Women Writing about Desire
Margot Kahn $17.95 Add to cart -
Maroons: A Grievers Novel
Adrienne Maree Brown $18.00 Add to cart -
The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
Laura Kaplan $18.00 Add to cart -
Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change, and Courage
Tori Amos $17.00 Add to cart -
The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin: A Library of America Special Publication
Lisa Yaszek $27.95 Add to cart -
Journey to Mount Tamalpais, 2nd Edition
Etel Adnan $24.00 Add to cart
Our Story
City Lights Bookstore was founded by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1953, and became an instant gathering place for readers, writers, artists, and activists. In 1955, Ferlinghetti launched City Lights Publishers with the now-famous Pocket Poets Series. Find out how it all began.
Recently Published by City Lights
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Evan Kennedy
Metamorphoses: City Lights Spotlight No. 22
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Ted Berrigan
Get the Money!: Collected Prose (1961-1983)
$24.95$17.47 Add to cart -
Belén Gopegui
Stay This Day and Night with Me
$16.95$11.87 Add to cart -
Will Alexander
Divine Blue Light (for John Coltrane): Pocket Poets Series No. 63
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Joyce Chopra
Lady Director
$17.95$12.57 Add to cart -
Clarence Lusane
Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy
$21.95$15.37 Add to cart -
D. S. Marriott
Before Whiteness: City Lights Spotlight No. 21
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Gabriela Alemán
Family Album: Stories
$15.95$11.17 Add to cart
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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
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