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Image Purchase Image Purchase Image Purchase Image Purchase Image Join Walk Image Join Class Upcoming Events Fri, 1/24/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Malu Halasa and Jordan Elgrably — Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader — at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 1/24/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Christopher Kondrich, Kyoko Mori & Sofia Samatar — Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation — at The Wharf 610 Water St SW Washington, DC 20024 United States Fri, 1/24/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Marc J Gregson - Among Serpents - at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 1/25/2025 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm Cheryl Neely — No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference - with Ian Shapira — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 1/25/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Jorge Goldstein & Thalia Goldstein — A Father and Daughter Discuss their Separate Interdisciplinary Books with Professor Shayna Maskell — at Conn Ave 5015 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20008 United States Sat, 1/25/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Megan Howell — Softie - with Hannah Grieco — at Union Market Sun, 1/26/2025 - 10:30am - 11:00am Karen Leggett Abouraya - Zamzam - at Conn Ave In Store Sun, 1/26/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Rebecca Graham — Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany- with Elisabeth Griffith — at Conn Ave 5015 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20008 United States Mon, 1/27/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Jeffrey Boutwell — Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy - with Sidney Blumenthal — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 1/28/2025 - 7:00pm Michael Posner — Conscience Incorporated: Pursue Profits While Protecting Human Rights - with David Leonhardt — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 1/29/2025 - 10:30am - 11:00am Brittany Mazique - Millie Magnus Won't Be Bullied In Store Wed, 1/29/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Juanita Tolliver — A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics - with Helena Andrews-Dyer — at The Wharf In Store Wed, 1/29/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Ruth Franklin — The Many Lives of Anne Frank - with Frank Foer — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 1/30/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Caryl Phillips — Another Man in the Street - with Aminatta Forna — at Union Market In Store Thu, 1/30/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Catherine Coleman Flowers — Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope - with Diane McWhorter — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 1/30/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Mina Fears - The Scorpion Queen - in conversation with Lauren Blackwood - at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 1/31/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Mark L. Clifford — The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic - with William McGurn — at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 1/31/2025 - 7:00pm Theresa S. Betancourt — Shadows Into Light: A Generation of Former Child Soldiers Comes of Age - with Dr. Andrea Horvath Marques — at The Wharf In Store Sat, 2/1/2025 - 3:00pm Lionel Barber — Gambling Man: The Secret Story of the World's Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son - with Brody Mullins — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 2/1/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Andrew Lawler — A Perfect Frenzy - with Sharon Pratt — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 2/1/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Colette Shade — Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything - with Rachel Vorona Cote — at Union Market In Store Sat, 2/1/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Aaron Hwang - Chinese Mythology: Legendary Tales of Heaven, Earth, Humanity and Beyond - at Conn Ave In Store Sun, 2/2/2025 - 3:00pm [NEW DATE] Brittany Friedman — Carceral Apartheid - with DeRay Mckesson — at Conn Ave In Store Sun, 2/2/2025 - 5:00pm Arch Campbell — The Accidental Critic - with Doreen Gentzler — at Conn Ave In Store Mon, 2/3/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Youssef Rakha — The Dissenters - with Eman Quotah — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 2/4/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm James Ponti - London Calling (City Spies #6) - in conversation with Katherine Marsh - at Chevy Chase DC Library 8005 Connecticut Ave Chevy Chase, MD 20815 United States Tue, 2/4/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Loretta Ross — Calling in: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 2/5/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Charles Piller — Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's - with Jenn White — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 2/5/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm [SOLD OUT]Bill Gates — Source Code: My Beginnings - with Savannah Guthrie — at Lisner Auditorium 730 21st St NW Washington, DC 20037 United States Purchase to [SOLD OUT]Bill Gates — Source Code: My Beginnings - with Savannah Guthrie — at Lisner Auditorium Thu, 2/6/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Betty Shamieh — Too Soon — at Union Market In Store Thu, 2/6/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Nicholas Evan Sarantakes — The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War — at Conn Ave 5015 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20008 United States Fri, 2/7/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Roger Celestin — The Delicate Beast — at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 2/7/2025 - 7:00pm - 7:30pm Kalela Williams - Tangleroot - in Conversation with Kit Ballenger at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 2/7/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Jonathan Rauch — Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy - with McKay Coppins — at The Wharf In Store Sat, 2/8/2025 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm Leland Melvin - Space Chasers - at MLK Library 901 G St NW Washington, DC 20001 United States Sat, 2/8/2025 - 3:00pm Tom Rosshirt — Chasing Peace: A Story of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, and the Spiritual Power of Neuroscience — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 2/8/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Joseph Koerner — Art in a State of Siege - with Sebastian Smee — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 2/8/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Sarah Chihaya — Bibliophobia - with Glory Edim — at Union Market In Store Sun, 2/9/2025 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm John Sayles — To Save the Man — at Conn Ave In Store Sun, 2/9/2025 - 2:00pm This is Your Poem: A Tribute to Nikki Giovanni - with Tricia Elam Walker, Nina Angela Mercer, Holly Bass, and María Fernanda — at Union Market In Store Mon, 2/10/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Philip Shenon — Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church — at Conn Ave In Store Mon, 2/10/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Geraldine Brooks — Memorial Days - with Kara Swisher — at Sixth & I 600 I St NW Washington, DC 20001 United States Purchase to Geraldine Brooks — Memorial Days - with Kara Swisher — at Sixth & I Tue, 2/11/2025 - 7:00pm Ira Madison — Pure Innocent Fun: Essays - with Ari Shapiro — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 2/12/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Lauren Francis-Sharma — Casualties of Truth - with Kwame Alexander — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 2/12/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Jennifer Finney Boylan — Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us - with Congresswoman Sarah McBride — at The Wharf In Store Thu, 2/13/2025 - 10:30am - 11:00am Eleanor Spicer Rice with Max Temescu- The Deadliest: Big Cat & The Deadliest: Spider - at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 2/13/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Rich Benjamin — Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History - with Edgar Kunz — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 2/13/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm Kelsey McKinney — You Didn't Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip - with Kat Chow — at Lincoln Theatre 1215 U St NW Washington, DC 20009 United States Purchase to Kelsey McKinney — You Didn't Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip - with Kat Chow — at Lincoln Theatre Fri, 2/14/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Elinor Lipman — Every Tom, Dick & Harry — at the Wharf In Store Fri, 2/14/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Valentine's Day Romance Panel with Nora Dahlia & Katie Holt - moderated by Taj McCoy — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 2/15/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Marita Golden — How to Become a Black Writer: Creating and Honoring Black Stories That Matter - with Ethelbert Miller — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 2/15/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Rina Bliss — What's Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society — at Union Market In Store Sun, 2/16/2025 - 5:00pm Irvin Weathersby Jr. — In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space - with Jamila Minnicks — at Conn Ave In Store Mon, 2/17/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Jayne Anne Phillips — Night Watch - with Tayla Burney — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 2/18/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Ibi Zoboi - (S)kin - in conversation with Amber McBride and Maika Moulite - at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 2/18/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Tamika D. Mallory — I Lived to Tell the Story: A Memoir of Love, Legacy, and Resilience — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 2/19/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Rebecca Romney — Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend — at The Wharf In Store Wed, 2/19/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm David Levering Lewis — The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958 - with Steve Inskeep — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 2/20/2025 - 10:30am - 11:00am Susan Stockdale - Don’t Eat the Cleaners In Store Thu, 2/20/2025 - 7:00pm Gregg Kimball — Searching for Jimmie Strother: A Tale of Music, Murder, and Memory — at Union Market In Store Thu, 2/20/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Katherine Stewart — Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy — at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 2/21/2025 - 7:00pm Danielle Phillips-Cunningham — Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Tower of Strength in the Labor World — at The Wharf In Store Fri, 2/21/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Sarah Jones — Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass - with Tim Shenk — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 2/22/2025 - 3:00pm Drew Lichtenberg & Deborah C. Payne — Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company - with Trey Graham — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 2/22/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Isaac Stanley-Becker — Europe Without Borders: A History - with Ishaan Tharoor — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 2/22/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Mary Frances Phillips — Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins — at Union Market In Store Sun, 2/23/2025 - 3:00pm Larry La — Square Moon: One Man’s Journey From War-Torn Vietnam to D.C.’s Hottest Kitchens — at Conn Ave In Store Sun, 2/23/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Dr. Adam Ratner — Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health — at Conn Ave In Store Mon, 2/24/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Peter Beinart — Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning - with Karen Attiah — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 2/25/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Kenneth Roth — Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 2/25/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm David Grann — The Wager — at Sixth and I 600 I St NW Washington, DC 20001 United States PURCHASE to David Grann — The Wager — at Sixth and I Wed, 2/26/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Yoni Appelbaum — Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity — at The Wharf In Store Wed, 2/26/2025 - 7:00pm Filippo Trevisan — Story Tech: Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy - with Pete Hackeman — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 2/27/2025 - 10:30am - 11:00am Carole Lindstrom and Aly McKnight- The Gift of the Great Buffalo - at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 2/27/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Samantha Shannon — The Dark Mirror (Bone Season #5) - with Sabaa Tahir — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 2/27/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Philip Greene — Sours: A History of the World's Most Storied Cocktail Style — at Union Market In Store Fri, 2/28/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Brad Snyder — You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free Speech - with Stephen I. Vladeck — at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 2/28/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Jonathan Tarleton — Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons - with Amanda Huron — at The Wharf In Store Sat, 3/1/2025 - 3:00pm Eve Ewing — Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 3/1/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Edward Fishman — Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare - with Elizabeth Ralph — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 3/1/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Michael Nayak — Symbiote — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 3/1/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm L.M. Elliott - Truth, Lies and the Questions In Between - in conversation with Monica Hesse - at Conn Ave In Store Sun, 3/2/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Jeffrey Toobin — The Pardon: Nixon, Ford and the Politics of Presidential Mercy — at Conn Ave In Store Mon, 3/3/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Alexander Vindman — The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself about Russia and Betrayed Ukraine — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 3/4/2025 - 10:30am - 11:00am David Shannon - That's Not Funny, David - at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 3/4/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Surekha Davies — Humans: A Monstrous History — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 3/5/2025 - 7:00pm - 7:30pm Kelly Andrew - I Am Made of Death - in conversation with Kosoko Jackson - at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 3/5/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Laila Lalami — The Dream Hotel — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 3/6/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Bernice L. McFadden — Firstborn Girls — at Union Market In Store Thu, 3/6/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm John Miller — The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball — at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 3/7/2025 - 7:00pm John Lechner — Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare — at The Wharf In Store Sat, 3/8/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Elaine Weiss — Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement — at Conn Ave In Store Sun, 3/9/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Jill Eicher — Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War — at Conn Ave In Store Mon, 3/10/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Cat Bohannon — Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 3/11/2025 - 7:00pm Zoë Gadegbeku — Blue Futures, Break Open — at Union Market In Store Tue, 3/11/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Chris Hedges — A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 3/12/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — Dream Count — at Sixth & I 600 I St NW Washington, DC 20001 United States Purchase to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — Dream Count — at Sixth & I Wed, 3/12/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Gary Krist — Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco - with Margaret Talbot — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 3/12/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Olga Khazan — Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change — at The Wharf In Store Thu, 3/13/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Laurie Woolever — Care and Feeding with Daniela Galarza — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 3/13/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Susan Daitch — The Adjudicator — at Union Market In Store Fri, 3/14/2025 - 7:00pm Cal Hoffman — Easy to Slip - with Maria Manuela Goyanes — at The Wharf In Store Fri, 3/14/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Alissa Wilkinson — We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine - with Dan Kois — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 3/15/2025 - 3:00pm Ali Watkins — The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA’s Secret American Army — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 3/15/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Ariel Dorfman — Allegro — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 3/15/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Elissa Altman — Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create — at Union Market In Store Sun, 3/16/2025 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm Joe Boyd — And the Roots of Rhythm Remain - with Bob Boilen — at Union Market 1324 4th St. NE Washington, DC 20002 United States Sun, 3/16/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm David Enrich — Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful — at Conn Ave In Store Mon, 3/17/2025 - 7:00pm Alexis Madrigal — The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 3/18/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Reginald Dwayne Betts — Doggerel: Poems — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 3/18/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Michael Lewis, Casey Cep, and David Shipley — Who is Government? — at Sidwell 3825 Wisconsin Ave Washington, DC 20016 United States Purchase to Michael Lewis, Casey Cep, and David Shipley — Who is Government? — at Sidwell Wed, 3/19/2025 - 7:00pm Lawrence Wright — The Human Scale — at The Wharf In Store Wed, 3/19/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Senator Chuck Schumer — Antisemitism in America: A Warning — at Sixth & I 600 I St NW Washington, DC 20001 United States Purchase to Senator Chuck Schumer — Antisemitism in America: A Warning — at Sixth & I Wed, 3/19/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Shubha Sunder — Shubha Sunder — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 3/20/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Emma Donoghue — The Paris Express - with Tayla Burney — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 3/20/2025 - 7:00pm Pamela Grundy and Susan Shackelford — Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women's Basketball — at Union Market In Store Fri, 3/21/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Bernadette Atuahene — Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America — at The Wharf In Store Fri, 3/21/2025 - 7:00pm Meenakshi Ahamed — Indian Genius: The Meteoric Rise of Indians in America - with Evan Osnos — at Conn Ave — In Store Sat, 3/22/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Joshua Hammer — The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 3/22/2025 - 6:00pm Nicole Cuffy — O Sinners! — at Union Market In Store Sun, 3/23/2025 - 5:00pm Jill Santopolo — The Love We Found — at Conn Ave In Store Mon, 3/24/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Paul Lisicky — Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell - with Martha Anne Toll — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 3/25/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Jill Elaine Hasday — WE THE MEN: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality - with Michele Goodwin — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 3/26/2025 - 7:00pm Samantha Harvey — Orbital — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 3/26/2025 - 7:00pm - 7:15pm Maurice Jackson — Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience: How Black Washingtonians Used Music and Sports in the Fight for Equality — at The Wharf In Store Thu, 3/27/2025 - 10:30am - 11:00am Tom Angleberger - Dino Poet - at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 3/27/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Emily Feng — Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in XI Jinping's China - with Steve Inskeep — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 3/27/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Jeanne Theoharis — King of the North: Martin Luther King's Freedom Struggle Outside of the South — at Union Market In Store Fri, 3/28/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Michael David-Fox — Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule — at the Wharf In Store Fri, 3/28/2025 - 7:00pm Paul Blustein — King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 3/29/2025 - 3:00pm Annie Karni & Luke Broadwater — Mad House - with Peter Baker — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 3/29/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm William Geroux — The Fifteen: Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America - with Tom Kapsidelis — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 3/29/2025 - 6:00pm Nell Zink — Sister Europe — at Union Market In Store Sun, 3/30/2025 - 3:00pm Clay Risen — Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America — at Conn Ave In Store Mon, 3/31/2025 - 7:00pm Bridgett M. Davis — Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 4/2/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Kiese Laymon - CITY SUMMER, COUNTRY SUMMER - in conversation with Jason Reynolds - at MLK Library 901 G St NW Washington, DC 20001 United States Wed, 4/2/2025 - 7:00pm Brian Goldstone — There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America - with Sara Nelson — at The Wharf In Store Thu, 4/3/2025 - 7:00pm Elie Mystal — Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 4/3/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Stacy Nathaniel Jackson — The Ephemera Collector — at Union Market In Store Thu, 4/3/2025 - 7:00pm Elie Mystal — Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America — at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 4/4/2025 - 10:30am Laurie Halse Anderson - Rebellion 1776 - at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 4/4/2025 - 7:00pm Lise Olsen — The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston's Lost Boys — at The Wharf In Store Sat, 4/5/2025 - 3:00pm Maureen Dowd — Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 4/5/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Elaine Sciolino — Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum — at Conn Ave In Store Sun, 4/6/2025 - 3:00pm Joe Boyd — And the Roots of Rhythm Remain — at Conn Ave In Store Sun, 4/6/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Nicole Graev Lipson — Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays - with Sarah Wildman — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 4/8/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Dolen Perkins Valdez — Happy Land — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 4/9/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm David Denby — Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer - with Frank Foer — at The Wharf In Store Wed, 4/9/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm David Denby — Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer - with Frank Foer — at The Wharf In Store Thu, 4/10/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Katie Kitamura — Audition — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 4/10/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Katie Kitamura — Audition — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 4/10/2025 - 7:00pm Vauhini Vara — Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age — at Union Market In Store Fri, 4/11/2025 - 7:00pm Douglas Waller — The Determined Spy — at The Wharf In Store Fri, 4/11/2025 - 7:00pm Eamon Dolan — The Power of Parting: Finding Peace and Freedom Through Family Estrangement — at Conn Ave In Store Sun, 4/13/2025 - 3:00pm Seán Hewitt — Open, Heaven — at Conn Ave In Store Sun, 4/13/2025 - 5:00pm Jennifer Haigh — Rabbit Moon — at Conn Ave In Store Mon, 4/14/2025 - 7:00pm Jeffrey Ogbar — Black Movement: African American Urban History Since the Great Migration — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 4/15/2025 - 7:00pm Jonathan Horn — The Fate of the Generals: MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic Battle for the Philippines — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 4/16/2025 - 7:00pm Ken Kalfus — A Hole in the Story — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 4/16/2025 - 7:00pm Dan Nadel — Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life — at Union Market In Store Thu, 4/17/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Agnes Callard — Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life - with Becca Rothfeld — at The Wharf In Store Thu, 4/17/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Deborah Archer — Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality - with Tim Noah — at Conn Ave In Store Mon, 4/21/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Daniel Mendelsohn — The Odyssey — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 4/22/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Katherine Marsh - The Gods' Revenge (The Myth of Monsters #2) - in conversation with Sylvia Liu - at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 4/23/2025 - 7:00pm Andrew C. Isenberg — The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850 — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 4/23/2025 - 7:00pm Chris Hughes — Marketcrafters — at The Wharf In Store Thu, 4/24/2025 - 7:00pm Blake Gopnik — The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 4/24/2025 - 7:00pm Julian Borger — I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust — at Union Market In Store Fri, 4/25/2025 - 7:00pm Jaap de Roode — Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves — at The Wharf In Store Fri, 4/25/2025 - 7:00pm Corinna Vallianatos & Eric Puchner— Origin Stories & Dream State — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 4/26/2025 - 3:00pm Richard D. 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Davis — Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 4/2/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Kiese Laymon - CITY SUMMER, COUNTRY SUMMER - in conversation with Jason Reynolds - at MLK Library 901 G St NW Washington, DC 20001 United States Wed, 4/2/2025 - 7:00pm Brian Goldstone — There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America - with Sara Nelson — at The Wharf In Store Thu, 4/3/2025 - 7:00pm Elie Mystal — Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 4/3/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Stacy Nathaniel Jackson — The Ephemera Collector — at Union Market In Store Thu, 4/3/2025 - 7:00pm Elie Mystal — Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America — at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 4/4/2025 - 10:30am Laurie Halse Anderson - Rebellion 1776 - at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 4/4/2025 - 7:00pm Lise Olsen — The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston's Lost Boys — at The Wharf In Store Sat, 4/5/2025 - 3:00pm Maureen Dowd — Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 4/5/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Elaine Sciolino — Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum — at Conn Ave In Store Sun, 4/6/2025 - 3:00pm Joe Boyd — And the Roots of Rhythm Remain — at Conn Ave In Store Sun, 4/6/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Nicole Graev Lipson — Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays - with Sarah Wildman — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 4/8/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Dolen Perkins Valdez — Happy Land — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 4/9/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm David Denby — Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer - with Frank Foer — at The Wharf In Store Wed, 4/9/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm David Denby — Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer - with Frank Foer — at The Wharf In Store Thu, 4/10/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Katie Kitamura — Audition — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 4/10/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Katie Kitamura — Audition — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 4/10/2025 - 7:00pm Vauhini Vara — Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age — at Union Market In Store Fri, 4/11/2025 - 7:00pm Douglas Waller — The Determined Spy — at The Wharf In Store Fri, 4/11/2025 - 7:00pm Eamon Dolan — The Power of Parting: Finding Peace and Freedom Through Family Estrangement — at Conn Ave In Store Sun, 4/13/2025 - 3:00pm Seán Hewitt — Open, Heaven — at Conn Ave In Store Sun, 4/13/2025 - 5:00pm Jennifer Haigh — Rabbit Moon — at Conn Ave In Store Mon, 4/14/2025 - 7:00pm Jeffrey Ogbar — Black Movement: African American Urban History Since the Great Migration — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 4/15/2025 - 7:00pm Jonathan Horn — The Fate of the Generals: MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic Battle for the Philippines — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 4/16/2025 - 7:00pm Ken Kalfus — A Hole in the Story — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 4/16/2025 - 7:00pm Dan Nadel — Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life — at Union Market In Store Thu, 4/17/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Agnes Callard — Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life - with Becca Rothfeld — at The Wharf In Store Thu, 4/17/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Deborah Archer — Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality - with Tim Noah — at Conn Ave In Store Mon, 4/21/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Daniel Mendelsohn — The Odyssey — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 4/22/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Katherine Marsh - The Gods' Revenge (The Myth of Monsters #2) - in conversation with Sylvia Liu - at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 4/23/2025 - 7:00pm Andrew C. Isenberg — The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850 — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 4/23/2025 - 7:00pm Chris Hughes — Marketcrafters — at The Wharf In Store Thu, 4/24/2025 - 7:00pm Blake Gopnik — The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 4/24/2025 - 7:00pm Julian Borger — I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust — at Union Market In Store Fri, 4/25/2025 - 7:00pm Jaap de Roode — Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves — at The Wharf In Store Fri, 4/25/2025 - 7:00pm Corinna Vallianatos & Eric Puchner— Origin Stories & Dream State — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 4/26/2025 - 3:00pm Richard D. Kahlenberg — Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at Americas Colleges — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 4/26/2025 - 5:00pm Poetry Night Panel - with Brandel France de Bravo & Julie Choffel - in conversation with María Fernanda — at Conn Ave In Store Sun, 4/27/2025 - 5:00pm Gayle Wald — This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children's Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 4/29/2025 - 7:00pm Sarah Schulman — The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 4/30/2025 - 7:00pm Michael Luo — Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 4/30/2025 - 7:00pm Keith Rushing — Descended: Searching for My Gullah-Geechee Roots — at The Wharf In Store Thu, 5/1/2025 - 7:00pm Jens Ludwig — Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence — at Union Market In Store Thu, 5/1/2025 - 7:00pm Jon Hickey — Big Chief — at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 5/2/2025 - 7:00pm Rachel Frazin — Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America — at The Wharf In Store Fri, 5/2/2025 - 7:00pm Corinna Barrett Lain — Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 5/3/2025 - 5:00pm Yepoka Yeebo — Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 5/3/2025 - 6:00pm Amity Gaige — Heartwood - with Angie Kim — at Union Market 1324 4th St NE Wash, DC 20002 United States Sun, 5/4/2025 - 5:00pm Tom D. Crouch — Smithson's Gamble: The Smithsonian Institution in American Life — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 5/6/2025 - 7:00pm Martha Anne Toll — Duet for One — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 5/7/2025 - 7:00pm Laurence Leamer — Warhol's Muses: The Artists, Misfits, and Superstars Destroyed by the Factory Fame Machine — at The Wharf In Store Thu, 5/8/2025 - 7:00pm Christina Li — The Manor of Dreams — at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 5/9/2025 - 7:00pm James Romm — Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece - with Mary Beard — at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 5/9/2025 - 7:00pm Malcolm Harris — What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis — at the Wharf In Store Sat, 5/10/2025 - 5:00pm Miranda Spivack — Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back - with Leonard Downie Jr. — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 5/10/2025 - 6:00pm Amy Shearn — Animal Instinct - with — at Union Market In Store Sun, 5/11/2025 - 5:00pm Annual MFA American University Graduate Reading In Store Tue, 5/13/2025 - 7:00pm Judith Viorst — Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 5/14/2025 - 7:00pm Michelle Young — The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland - with Lynne Olson — at The Wharf In Store Wed, 5/14/2025 - 7:00pm John Cassidy — Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 5/15/2025 - 7:00pm Kate Woodworth — Little Great Island — at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 5/16/2025 - 10:30am - 11:30am Vera Brogsol - Return to Sender - at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 5/16/2025 - 7:00pm Leah Litman — Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 5/17/2025 - 5:00pm Martha A. Sandweiss — The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West — at Conn Ave In Store Mon, 5/19/2025 - 7:00pm Jonathan Capehart — Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 5/20/2025 - 7:00pm SL Price — The American Game: Into the Country of Lacrosse — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 5/22/2025 - 7:00pm Jonah Bromwich — DRAGON ON CENTRE STREET — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 5/27/2025 - 7:00pm Hawa Hassan — Setting a Place for Us: Recipes and Stories of Displacement, Resilience, and Community from Eight Countries Impacted by War — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 5/28/2025 - 7:00pm Paul Ellie — The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 5/29/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Daria Lavelle — Aftertaste — at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 5/30/2025 - 7:00pm Zoë Schlanger — The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth — at The Wharf In Store Fri, 5/30/2025 - 7:00pm Peniel E. Joseph — Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed Americas Civil Rights Revolution — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 6/3/2025 - 7:00pm Yrsa Daley-Ward — The Catch - with Glory Edim — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 6/4/2025 - 7:00pm Daniel Brook — The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 6/5/2025 - 7:00pm Robert MacFarlane — Is a River Alive? — at Conn Ave In Store Fri, 6/6/2025 - 7:00pm Joan Williams — Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back — at The Wharf In Store Fri, 6/6/2025 - 7:00pm Denise S. Robbins — The Unmapping - with Hannah Grieco and Marines Alvarez — at Conn Ave In Store Sat, 6/7/2025 - 5:00pm Thomas E. Ricks — We Can't Save You: A Tale of Politics, Murder, and Maine — at Conn Ave In Store Tue, 6/10/2025 - 7:00pm Jennifer Oko — Just Emilia — at Conn Ave In Store Thu, 6/12/2025 - 7:00pm Juliet Bellow — Rodin's Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 6/18/2025 - 7:00pm Laura Lippman — Murder Takes a Vacation — at Conn Ave In Store Wed, 6/25/2025 - 7:00pm Christina Hillsberg — Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIA — at The Wharf In Store Fri, 6/27/2025 - 7:00pm Akinyele K Umoja — The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity — at Conn Ave In Store
Fri, 1/24/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Malu Halasa and Jordan Elgrably — Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader — at Conn Ave In Store
Fri, 1/24/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Christopher Kondrich, Kyoko Mori & Sofia Samatar — Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation — at The Wharf 610 Water St SW Washington, DC 20024 United States
Sat, 1/25/2025 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm Cheryl Neely — No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference - with Ian Shapira — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 1/25/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Jorge Goldstein & Thalia Goldstein — A Father and Daughter Discuss their Separate Interdisciplinary Books with Professor Shayna Maskell — at Conn Ave 5015 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20008 United States
Sun, 1/26/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Rebecca Graham — Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany- with Elisabeth Griffith — at Conn Ave 5015 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20008 United States
Mon, 1/27/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Jeffrey Boutwell — Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy - with Sidney Blumenthal — at Conn Ave In Store
Tue, 1/28/2025 - 7:00pm Michael Posner — Conscience Incorporated: Pursue Profits While Protecting Human Rights - with David Leonhardt — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 1/29/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Juanita Tolliver — A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics - with Helena Andrews-Dyer — at The Wharf In Store
Wed, 1/29/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Ruth Franklin — The Many Lives of Anne Frank - with Frank Foer — at Conn Ave In Store
Thu, 1/30/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Caryl Phillips — Another Man in the Street - with Aminatta Forna — at Union Market In Store
Thu, 1/30/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Catherine Coleman Flowers — Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope - with Diane McWhorter — at Conn Ave In Store
Thu, 1/30/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Mina Fears - The Scorpion Queen - in conversation with Lauren Blackwood - at Conn Ave In Store
Fri, 1/31/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Mark L. Clifford — The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic - with William McGurn — at Conn Ave In Store
Fri, 1/31/2025 - 7:00pm Theresa S. Betancourt — Shadows Into Light: A Generation of Former Child Soldiers Comes of Age - with Dr. Andrea Horvath Marques — at The Wharf In Store
Sat, 2/1/2025 - 3:00pm Lionel Barber — Gambling Man: The Secret Story of the World's Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son - with Brody Mullins — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 2/1/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Andrew Lawler — A Perfect Frenzy - with Sharon Pratt — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 2/1/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Colette Shade — Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything - with Rachel Vorona Cote — at Union Market In Store
Sat, 2/1/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Aaron Hwang - Chinese Mythology: Legendary Tales of Heaven, Earth, Humanity and Beyond - at Conn Ave In Store
Sun, 2/2/2025 - 3:00pm [NEW DATE] Brittany Friedman — Carceral Apartheid - with DeRay Mckesson — at Conn Ave In Store
Sun, 2/2/2025 - 5:00pm Arch Campbell — The Accidental Critic - with Doreen Gentzler — at Conn Ave In Store
Mon, 2/3/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Youssef Rakha — The Dissenters - with Eman Quotah — at Conn Ave In Store
Tue, 2/4/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm James Ponti - London Calling (City Spies #6) - in conversation with Katherine Marsh - at Chevy Chase DC Library 8005 Connecticut Ave Chevy Chase, MD 20815 United States
Tue, 2/4/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Loretta Ross — Calling in: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 2/5/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Charles Piller — Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's - with Jenn White — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 2/5/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm [SOLD OUT]Bill Gates — Source Code: My Beginnings - with Savannah Guthrie — at Lisner Auditorium 730 21st St NW Washington, DC 20037 United States Purchase to [SOLD OUT]Bill Gates — Source Code: My Beginnings - with Savannah Guthrie — at Lisner Auditorium
Thu, 2/6/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Nicholas Evan Sarantakes — The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War — at Conn Ave 5015 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20008 United States
Fri, 2/7/2025 - 7:00pm - 7:30pm Kalela Williams - Tangleroot - in Conversation with Kit Ballenger at Conn Ave In Store
Fri, 2/7/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Jonathan Rauch — Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy - with McKay Coppins — at The Wharf In Store
Sat, 2/8/2025 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm Leland Melvin - Space Chasers - at MLK Library 901 G St NW Washington, DC 20001 United States
Sat, 2/8/2025 - 3:00pm Tom Rosshirt — Chasing Peace: A Story of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, and the Spiritual Power of Neuroscience — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 2/8/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Joseph Koerner — Art in a State of Siege - with Sebastian Smee — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 2/8/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Sarah Chihaya — Bibliophobia - with Glory Edim — at Union Market In Store
Sun, 2/9/2025 - 2:00pm This is Your Poem: A Tribute to Nikki Giovanni - with Tricia Elam Walker, Nina Angela Mercer, Holly Bass, and María Fernanda — at Union Market In Store
Mon, 2/10/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Philip Shenon — Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church — at Conn Ave In Store
Mon, 2/10/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Geraldine Brooks — Memorial Days - with Kara Swisher — at Sixth & I 600 I St NW Washington, DC 20001 United States Purchase to Geraldine Brooks — Memorial Days - with Kara Swisher — at Sixth & I
Tue, 2/11/2025 - 7:00pm Ira Madison — Pure Innocent Fun: Essays - with Ari Shapiro — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 2/12/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Lauren Francis-Sharma — Casualties of Truth - with Kwame Alexander — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 2/12/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Jennifer Finney Boylan — Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us - with Congresswoman Sarah McBride — at The Wharf In Store
Thu, 2/13/2025 - 10:30am - 11:00am Eleanor Spicer Rice with Max Temescu- The Deadliest: Big Cat & The Deadliest: Spider - at Conn Ave In Store
Thu, 2/13/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Rich Benjamin — Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History - with Edgar Kunz — at Conn Ave In Store
Thu, 2/13/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm Kelsey McKinney — You Didn't Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip - with Kat Chow — at Lincoln Theatre 1215 U St NW Washington, DC 20009 United States Purchase to Kelsey McKinney — You Didn't Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip - with Kat Chow — at Lincoln Theatre
Fri, 2/14/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Valentine's Day Romance Panel with Nora Dahlia & Katie Holt - moderated by Taj McCoy — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 2/15/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Marita Golden — How to Become a Black Writer: Creating and Honoring Black Stories That Matter - with Ethelbert Miller — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 2/15/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Rina Bliss — What's Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society — at Union Market In Store
Sun, 2/16/2025 - 5:00pm Irvin Weathersby Jr. — In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space - with Jamila Minnicks — at Conn Ave In Store
Mon, 2/17/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Jayne Anne Phillips — Night Watch - with Tayla Burney — at Conn Ave In Store
Tue, 2/18/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Ibi Zoboi - (S)kin - in conversation with Amber McBride and Maika Moulite - at Conn Ave In Store
Tue, 2/18/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Tamika D. Mallory — I Lived to Tell the Story: A Memoir of Love, Legacy, and Resilience — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 2/19/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Rebecca Romney — Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend — at The Wharf In Store
Wed, 2/19/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm David Levering Lewis — The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958 - with Steve Inskeep — at Conn Ave In Store
Thu, 2/20/2025 - 7:00pm Gregg Kimball — Searching for Jimmie Strother: A Tale of Music, Murder, and Memory — at Union Market In Store
Thu, 2/20/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Katherine Stewart — Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy — at Conn Ave In Store
Fri, 2/21/2025 - 7:00pm Danielle Phillips-Cunningham — Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Tower of Strength in the Labor World — at The Wharf In Store
Fri, 2/21/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Sarah Jones — Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass - with Tim Shenk — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 2/22/2025 - 3:00pm Drew Lichtenberg & Deborah C. Payne — Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company - with Trey Graham — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 2/22/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Isaac Stanley-Becker — Europe Without Borders: A History - with Ishaan Tharoor — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 2/22/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Mary Frances Phillips — Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins — at Union Market In Store
Sun, 2/23/2025 - 3:00pm Larry La — Square Moon: One Man’s Journey From War-Torn Vietnam to D.C.’s Hottest Kitchens — at Conn Ave In Store
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Mon, 2/24/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Peter Beinart — Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning - with Karen Attiah — at Conn Ave In Store
Tue, 2/25/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Kenneth Roth — Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments — at Conn Ave In Store
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Wed, 2/26/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Yoni Appelbaum — Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity — at The Wharf In Store
Wed, 2/26/2025 - 7:00pm Filippo Trevisan — Story Tech: Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy - with Pete Hackeman — at Conn Ave In Store
Thu, 2/27/2025 - 10:30am - 11:00am Carole Lindstrom and Aly McKnight- The Gift of the Great Buffalo - at Conn Ave In Store
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Thu, 2/27/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Philip Greene — Sours: A History of the World's Most Storied Cocktail Style — at Union Market In Store
Fri, 2/28/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Brad Snyder — You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free Speech - with Stephen I. Vladeck — at Conn Ave In Store
Fri, 2/28/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Jonathan Tarleton — Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons - with Amanda Huron — at The Wharf In Store
Sat, 3/1/2025 - 3:00pm Eve Ewing — Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 3/1/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Edward Fishman — Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare - with Elizabeth Ralph — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 3/1/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm L.M. Elliott - Truth, Lies and the Questions In Between - in conversation with Monica Hesse - at Conn Ave In Store
Sun, 3/2/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Jeffrey Toobin — The Pardon: Nixon, Ford and the Politics of Presidential Mercy — at Conn Ave In Store
Mon, 3/3/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Alexander Vindman — The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself about Russia and Betrayed Ukraine — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 3/5/2025 - 7:00pm - 7:30pm Kelly Andrew - I Am Made of Death - in conversation with Kosoko Jackson - at Conn Ave In Store
Thu, 3/6/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm John Miller — The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball — at Conn Ave In Store
Fri, 3/7/2025 - 7:00pm John Lechner — Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare — at The Wharf In Store
Sat, 3/8/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Elaine Weiss — Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement — at Conn Ave In Store
Sun, 3/9/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Jill Eicher — Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War — at Conn Ave In Store
Mon, 3/10/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Cat Bohannon — Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution — at Conn Ave In Store
Tue, 3/11/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Chris Hedges — A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 3/12/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — Dream Count — at Sixth & I 600 I St NW Washington, DC 20001 United States Purchase to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — Dream Count — at Sixth & I
Wed, 3/12/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Gary Krist — Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco - with Margaret Talbot — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 3/12/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Olga Khazan — Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change — at The Wharf In Store
Thu, 3/13/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Laurie Woolever — Care and Feeding with Daniela Galarza — at Conn Ave In Store
Fri, 3/14/2025 - 7:00pm Cal Hoffman — Easy to Slip - with Maria Manuela Goyanes — at The Wharf In Store
Fri, 3/14/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Alissa Wilkinson — We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine - with Dan Kois — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 3/15/2025 - 3:00pm Ali Watkins — The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA’s Secret American Army — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 3/15/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Elissa Altman — Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create — at Union Market In Store
Sun, 3/16/2025 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm Joe Boyd — And the Roots of Rhythm Remain - with Bob Boilen — at Union Market 1324 4th St. NE Washington, DC 20002 United States
Sun, 3/16/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm David Enrich — Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful — at Conn Ave In Store
Mon, 3/17/2025 - 7:00pm Alexis Madrigal — The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City — at Conn Ave In Store
Tue, 3/18/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Michael Lewis, Casey Cep, and David Shipley — Who is Government? — at Sidwell 3825 Wisconsin Ave Washington, DC 20016 United States Purchase to Michael Lewis, Casey Cep, and David Shipley — Who is Government? — at Sidwell
Wed, 3/19/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Senator Chuck Schumer — Antisemitism in America: A Warning — at Sixth & I 600 I St NW Washington, DC 20001 United States Purchase to Senator Chuck Schumer — Antisemitism in America: A Warning — at Sixth & I
Thu, 3/20/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Emma Donoghue — The Paris Express - with Tayla Burney — at Conn Ave In Store
Thu, 3/20/2025 - 7:00pm Pamela Grundy and Susan Shackelford — Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women's Basketball — at Union Market In Store
Fri, 3/21/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Bernadette Atuahene — Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America — at The Wharf In Store
Fri, 3/21/2025 - 7:00pm Meenakshi Ahamed — Indian Genius: The Meteoric Rise of Indians in America - with Evan Osnos — at Conn Ave — In Store
Sat, 3/22/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Joshua Hammer — The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing — at Conn Ave In Store
Mon, 3/24/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Paul Lisicky — Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell - with Martha Anne Toll — at Conn Ave In Store
Tue, 3/25/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Jill Elaine Hasday — WE THE MEN: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality - with Michele Goodwin — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 3/26/2025 - 7:00pm - 7:15pm Maurice Jackson — Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience: How Black Washingtonians Used Music and Sports in the Fight for Equality — at The Wharf In Store
Thu, 3/27/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Emily Feng — Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in XI Jinping's China - with Steve Inskeep — at Conn Ave In Store
Thu, 3/27/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Jeanne Theoharis — King of the North: Martin Luther King's Freedom Struggle Outside of the South — at Union Market In Store
Fri, 3/28/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Michael David-Fox — Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule — at the Wharf In Store
Fri, 3/28/2025 - 7:00pm Paul Blustein — King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 3/29/2025 - 3:00pm Annie Karni & Luke Broadwater — Mad House - with Peter Baker — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 3/29/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm William Geroux — The Fifteen: Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America - with Tom Kapsidelis — at Conn Ave In Store
Sun, 3/30/2025 - 3:00pm Clay Risen — Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America — at Conn Ave In Store
Mon, 3/31/2025 - 7:00pm Bridgett M. Davis — Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 4/2/2025 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm Kiese Laymon - CITY SUMMER, COUNTRY SUMMER - in conversation with Jason Reynolds - at MLK Library 901 G St NW Washington, DC 20001 United States
Wed, 4/2/2025 - 7:00pm Brian Goldstone — There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America - with Sara Nelson — at The Wharf In Store
Thu, 4/3/2025 - 7:00pm Elie Mystal — Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America — at Conn Ave In Store
Thu, 4/3/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Stacy Nathaniel Jackson — The Ephemera Collector — at Union Market In Store
Thu, 4/3/2025 - 7:00pm Elie Mystal — Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America — at Conn Ave In Store
Fri, 4/4/2025 - 7:00pm Lise Olsen — The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston's Lost Boys — at The Wharf In Store
Sat, 4/5/2025 - 3:00pm Maureen Dowd — Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 4/5/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Elaine Sciolino — Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum — at Conn Ave In Store
Sun, 4/6/2025 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm Nicole Graev Lipson — Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays - with Sarah Wildman — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 4/9/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm David Denby — Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer - with Frank Foer — at The Wharf In Store
Wed, 4/9/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm David Denby — Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer - with Frank Foer — at The Wharf In Store
Thu, 4/10/2025 - 7:00pm Vauhini Vara — Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age — at Union Market In Store
Fri, 4/11/2025 - 7:00pm Eamon Dolan — The Power of Parting: Finding Peace and Freedom Through Family Estrangement — at Conn Ave In Store
Mon, 4/14/2025 - 7:00pm Jeffrey Ogbar — Black Movement: African American Urban History Since the Great Migration — at Conn Ave In Store
Tue, 4/15/2025 - 7:00pm Jonathan Horn — The Fate of the Generals: MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic Battle for the Philippines — at Conn Ave In Store
Thu, 4/17/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Agnes Callard — Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life - with Becca Rothfeld — at The Wharf In Store
Thu, 4/17/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Deborah Archer — Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality - with Tim Noah — at Conn Ave In Store
Tue, 4/22/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm Katherine Marsh - The Gods' Revenge (The Myth of Monsters #2) - in conversation with Sylvia Liu - at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 4/23/2025 - 7:00pm Andrew C. Isenberg — The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850 — at Conn Ave In Store
Thu, 4/24/2025 - 7:00pm Blake Gopnik — The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream — at Conn Ave In Store
Thu, 4/24/2025 - 7:00pm Julian Borger — I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust — at Union Market In Store
Fri, 4/25/2025 - 7:00pm Jaap de Roode — Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves — at The Wharf In Store
Fri, 4/25/2025 - 7:00pm Corinna Vallianatos & Eric Puchner— Origin Stories & Dream State — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 4/26/2025 - 3:00pm Richard D. Kahlenberg — Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at Americas Colleges — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 4/26/2025 - 5:00pm Poetry Night Panel - with Brandel France de Bravo & Julie Choffel - in conversation with María Fernanda — at Conn Ave In Store
Sun, 4/27/2025 - 5:00pm Gayle Wald — This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children's Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement — at Conn Ave In Store
Tue, 4/29/2025 - 7:00pm Sarah Schulman — The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 4/30/2025 - 7:00pm Michael Luo — Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 4/30/2025 - 7:00pm Keith Rushing — Descended: Searching for My Gullah-Geechee Roots — at The Wharf In Store
Thu, 5/1/2025 - 7:00pm Jens Ludwig — Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence — at Union Market In Store
Fri, 5/2/2025 - 7:00pm Rachel Frazin — Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America — at The Wharf In Store
Fri, 5/2/2025 - 7:00pm Corinna Barrett Lain — Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 5/3/2025 - 5:00pm Yepoka Yeebo — Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 5/3/2025 - 6:00pm Amity Gaige — Heartwood - with Angie Kim — at Union Market 1324 4th St NE Wash, DC 20002 United States
Sun, 5/4/2025 - 5:00pm Tom D. Crouch — Smithson's Gamble: The Smithsonian Institution in American Life — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 5/7/2025 - 7:00pm Laurence Leamer — Warhol's Muses: The Artists, Misfits, and Superstars Destroyed by the Factory Fame Machine — at The Wharf In Store
Fri, 5/9/2025 - 7:00pm James Romm — Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece - with Mary Beard — at Conn Ave In Store
Fri, 5/9/2025 - 7:00pm Malcolm Harris — What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis — at the Wharf In Store
Sat, 5/10/2025 - 5:00pm Miranda Spivack — Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back - with Leonard Downie Jr. — at Conn Ave In Store
Tue, 5/13/2025 - 7:00pm Judith Viorst — Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 5/14/2025 - 7:00pm Michelle Young — The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland - with Lynne Olson — at The Wharf In Store
Wed, 5/14/2025 - 7:00pm John Cassidy — Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI — at Conn Ave In Store
Fri, 5/16/2025 - 7:00pm Leah Litman — Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 5/17/2025 - 5:00pm Martha A. Sandweiss — The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West — at Conn Ave In Store
Mon, 5/19/2025 - 7:00pm Jonathan Capehart — Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home — at Conn Ave In Store
Tue, 5/20/2025 - 7:00pm SL Price — The American Game: Into the Country of Lacrosse — at Conn Ave In Store
Tue, 5/27/2025 - 7:00pm Hawa Hassan — Setting a Place for Us: Recipes and Stories of Displacement, Resilience, and Community from Eight Countries Impacted by War — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 5/28/2025 - 7:00pm Paul Ellie — The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s — at Conn Ave In Store
Fri, 5/30/2025 - 7:00pm Zoë Schlanger — The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth — at The Wharf In Store
Fri, 5/30/2025 - 7:00pm Peniel E. Joseph — Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed Americas Civil Rights Revolution — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 6/4/2025 - 7:00pm Daniel Brook — The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin — at Conn Ave In Store
Fri, 6/6/2025 - 7:00pm Joan Williams — Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back — at The Wharf In Store
Fri, 6/6/2025 - 7:00pm Denise S. Robbins — The Unmapping - with Hannah Grieco and Marines Alvarez — at Conn Ave In Store
Sat, 6/7/2025 - 5:00pm Thomas E. Ricks — We Can't Save You: A Tale of Politics, Murder, and Maine — at Conn Ave In Store
Thu, 6/12/2025 - 7:00pm Juliet Bellow — Rodin's Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris — at Conn Ave In Store
Wed, 6/25/2025 - 7:00pm Christina Hillsberg — Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIA — at The Wharf In Store
Fri, 6/27/2025 - 7:00pm Akinyele K Umoja — The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity — at Conn Ave In Store
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Preorder Stone Yard Devotional: A Novel Charlotte Wood Current price: $28.00 Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, a novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be good, from the award-winning author of The Weekend. ...
Staff Pick The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World Christine Rosen Current price: $29.99 An Esquire Best Book of 2024 A reflective, original invitation to recover and cultivate the human experiences that have atrophied in our virtual world. ...
Staff Pick The Beggar Student Osamu Dazai Current price: $12.95 For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai’s darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer. ...
Staff Pick Long Distance: Stories Aysegül Savas Current price: $26.99 Acclaimed author of The Anthropologists and master of the short story form Aysegul Savas' acute and tender first collection about the distances we keep, and those we try to close, in the age of connectivity. ...
Staff Pick The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement Susannah Gibson Current price: $29.99 One of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2024 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2024 ...
Preorder Vanishing World Sayaka Murata Current price: $28.00 From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial insemination ...
Staff Pick Pan: A Novel Michael Clune Current price: $29.00 “I steal language and ideas from Michael Clune.” ―Ben Lerner, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of The Topeka School ...
Staff Pick We Do Not Part: A Novel Han Kang Current price: $28.00 THE NEW NOVEL FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE ...
Preorder Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories Torrey Peters Current price: $28.00 “This inventive, boundary-pushing follow-up to Detransition, Baby . . . [takes] on gender, transness and lives on the margins in all of their gorgeously complicated glory.”—People ...
Staff Pick The Seventh Floor: A Novel David McCloskey Current price: $29.99 Six CIA officers. Dear friends and cherished enemies. For a quarter century they have stolen other people’s secrets. Now they must steal each other’s. ...
Staff Pick The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir Kelly Bishop Current price: $28.99 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Goodreads Choice Awards Winner ...
Preorder The Dream Hotel: A Novel Laila Lalami Current price: $29.00 From Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a “maestra of literary fiction” (NPR)—comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance. ...
Staff Pick I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness: A Novel Irene Solà Current price: $17.00 Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. ...
Preorder Sky Daddy: A Novel Kate Folk Current price: $29.00 “Audaciously imagined. Slyly executed. Surprisingly tender. Deliciously weird.”—Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch ...
Staff Pick Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State Kerry Howley Current price: $18.00 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America—from the acclaimed author of Thrown ...
Staff Pick Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir (Machete) Patricia Coral Current price: $19.95 Longlisted, 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography Growing up in Puerto Rico, Patricia Coral was surrounded by women who fought for their needs amid the demands of domesticity and who were dismissed and judged when they rejected any predetermined paths on an island that itself has ...
Preorder The Book of Flaco: The World's Most Famous Bird David Gessner Current price: $24.95 The story of Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from Central Park Zoo and captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of followers around the world, with 32 pages of stunning color photographs. ...
Staff Pick Playground: A Novel Richard Powers Current price: $29.99 New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize ...
Staff Pick Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future Jason Stanley Current price: $28.99 “I’ve never read a book that is as timely, urgent and essential as this one. A battle plan for keeping this nation from falling into fascism.” —Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness ...
Staff Pick Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food Chris van Tulleken Current price: $18.99 New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year “A fearless investigation into how we have become hooked.” —Financial Times ...
Staff Pick A Woman in the Polar Night (Pushkin Press Classics) Christiane Ritter Current price: $19.95 “An epic story, elegantly told and full of mystery.” — Maggie Shipstead, author of Great CircleA rediscovered classic memoir – the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic ...
Staff Pick On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice Adam Kirsch Current price: $24.99 A prominent public intellectual tackles one of the most crucial political ideas of our moment. ...
Staff Pick Campus Free Speech: A Pocket Guide Cass R. Sunstein Current price: $22.95 A Forbes Best Higher Education Book of the YearFrom renowned legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein, a concise, case-by-case guide to resolving free-speech dilemmas at colleges and universities. ...
Staff Pick Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials Marion Gibson Current price: $18.99 National Bestseller A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 ...
Staff Pick The Modern Fairies: A Novel Clare Pollard Current price: $28.00 A BookPage Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year • “Artfully composed…keenly alive…this memorable novel reminds the reader of the enduring power of storytelling to transform and even save lives.” —The New York Times ...
Staff Pick The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective Sara Lodge Current price: $30.00 A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account—and how they became a cultural sensation ...
Preorder Blood on Her Tongue (Deluxe Edition): A Novel Johanna van Veen Current price: $17.99 "Gothic horror for the ages…Combining shiver-inducing horror with sharp-fanged social commentary, this more that merits comparison to Dracula and other genre titans."— Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "I'm in your blood, and you are in mine…" ...
Staff Pick Dungeon Crawler Carl Matt Dinniman Current price: $30.00 The apocalypse will be televised! Welcome to the first book in the wildly popular and addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman—now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition. ...
Staff Pick Jane Austen: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Tom Keymer Current price: $12.99 Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including three volumes of witty, non-realist juvenilia and the innovative, unfinished Sanditon. ...
Staff Pick The Vulnerables: A Novel Sigrid Nunez Current price: $18.00 NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, VOGUE, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICE, THE IRISH TIMES, NEW REPUBLIC AND KIRKUS REVIEWS ...
Staff Pick Witchcraft for Wayward Girls Grady Hendrix Current price: $30.00 "Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York TimesAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERThere’s power in a book… ...
Staff Pick Pride and Prejudice in Space Alexis Lampley Current price: $30.00 "A dazzling addition to the Austen-verse." - Julia Quinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Bridgerton series ...
Staff Pick Near Distance (Biblioasis International Translation #48) Hanna Stoltenberg Current price: $16.95 "Stoltenberg's elegant prose makes each scene . . . so engaging that it gives plot a bad name."--John Self, Guardian ...
Staff Pick Good Girl: A Novel Aria Aber Current price: $29.00 An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discovery—“a stunning coming-of-age story” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can’t escape its history ...
Staff Pick Ghost Pains Jessi Jezewska Stevens Current price: $19.95 One of LitHub, Bookshop.org and i-D's most anticipated books of 2024 ...
Staff Pick Circus Commentary (The German List) Alexander Kluge Current price: $25.00 Alexander Kluge explores the madcap, multifaceted world of the circus through a global geopolitical lens. ...
Staff Pick You Exist Too Much: A Novel Zaina Arafat Current price: $16.95 A “provocative and seductive debut” of desire and doubleness that follows the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities as she endeavors to lead an authentic life (O, The Oprah Magazine). ...
Staff Pick In Universes: A Novel Emet North Current price: $26.99 NEW YORK TIMES' 10 BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY BOOKS OF THE YEAR ...
Staff Pick Loitering with Intent Muriel Spark Current price: $15.95 Where does art start or reality end? ...
Staff Pick Mary and the Rabbit Dream Noémi Kiss-Deáki Current price: $18.95 A sardonic, feminist reimagining of the story of Mary Toft, infamous rabbit-birthing hoaxer. ...
Staff Pick The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism Joe Conason Current price: $30.00 A sardonic chronicle of how conservatism turned into a racketeering enterprise – and why Donald Trump became the living emblem of the American right’s moral decay. ...
Staff Pick The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi Wright Thompson Current price: $35.00 The instant New York Times bestseller • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Slate, Vanity Fair, TIME, Buzzfeed, Smithsonian, BookPage, KCUR, Kirkus, and ...
Staff Pick The Letters of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney Current price: $45.00 The letters provide us with an intimate, multilayered understanding of this extraordinary poet’s life and mind. ...
Staff Pick Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond Current price: $18.99 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY ...
Staff Pick A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan #1) Arkady Martine Current price: $18.99 Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best NovelA Locus, and Nebula Award nominee for 2019An NPR Favorite Book of 2019An Esquire Best Sci-Fi Book of All Time ...
Staff Pick Witch King (The Rising World #1) Martha Wells Current price: $18.99 Winner of the Locus Award!From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes a remarkable story of power and friendship, of trust and betrayal, and of the families we choose."I didn't know you were a... demon." ...
Staff Pick Clarity & Connection (The Inward Trilogy) yung pueblo Current price: $16.99 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the celebrated author of Inward comes the second in series, a collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. ...
Staff Pick Castle Swimmer: Volume 1 Wendy Martin Current price: $18.99 In the gorgeous first installment of the hit Webtoon series Castle Swimmer, two young mermen reject their destinies and embark on an epic adventure full of romance and danger, featuring exclusive bonus material. ...
Staff Pick Potus Selina Fillinger Current price: $15.95 One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble. ...
Staff Pick Orlando: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Virginia Woolf Current price: $20.00 Virginia Woolf’s pioneering novel about a time-traveling sixteenth-century nobleman who wakes up in the body of a woman, with a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl ...
Staff Pick 84, Charing Cross Road Helene Hanff Current price: $16.00 "Those who have read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a novel comprised of only letters between the characters, will see how much that best-seller owes 84, Charing Cross Road." -- Medium.com ...
Staff Pick The Great Zoo: A Bilingual Edition (Phoenix Poets) Nicolás Guillén Current price: $18.00 A fantastical collection of poems by revolutionary Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén presented in a Spanish-English bilingual edition. ...
Staff Pick The Pisces: A Novel Melissa Broder Current price: $18.00 LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION ...
Staff Pick Almond Blossoms and Beyond Mahmoud Darwish Current price: $20.00 The first English translation of recent poetry by the late Mahmoud Darwish, the most important Palestinian contemporary poet. ...
Staff Pick Final Cut (Pantheon Graphic Library) Charles Burns Current price: $34.00 The beloved and award-winning author of BLACK HOLE's haunting and visually arresting story of an artist's obsessions, and the value and cost of pushing the boundaries of creativity ...
Staff Pick The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore Evan Friss Current price: $30.00 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Goodreads Choice Award Winner in History & Biography One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 ...
Staff Pick Blue Sisters: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel Coco Mellors Current price: $30.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister’s death in this “deeply nuanced and compelling” (Vogue) novel, from the acclaime ...
Staff Pick The Material: A Novel Camille Bordas Current price: $28.00 A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up comedy in a novel that “[brims] with insecure characters, clever repartee, dark jokes and funny riffs” (The Wall Street Journal) ...
Staff Pick Season of the Swamp: A Novel Yuri Herrera Current price: $26.00 A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World ...
Staff Pick Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir Dolly Alderton Current price: $18.99 No description available.
Staff Pick The Princess of 72nd Street: A Novel (Modern Library Torchbearers) Elaine Kraf Current price: $17.00 “That rare thing: a true underappreciated classic” (The New Yorker), about a smart and sensitive yet deeply troubled young woman fighting to live on her own terms ...