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This Week at City Lights Bookstore:
Check out our Events and Readings page for additional upcoming bookstore events and City Lights authors readings on the road.
Listen to the new Live from City Lights podcast featuring David Calonne reading from the new Charles Bukowski collection More Notes of a Dirty Old Man.
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Welcome to City Lights Books
of San Francisco
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City Lights is a landmark independent bookstore and publisher that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.
Founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin, City Lights is one of the truly great independent bookstores in the United States, a place where booklovers from across the country and around the world come to browse, read, and just soak in the ambiance of alternative culture's only "Literary Landmark."... Read more>>
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New at City Lights Bookstore
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The Cat's Table
Michael Ondaatje
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the “cat’s table”—as far from the Captain’s Table as can be—with a ragtag group of “insignificant” adults and two other boys, Cassius...
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Mutants and Mystics
Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal
Jeffrey J. Kripal
In many ways, twentieth-century America was the land of superheroes and science fiction. From Superman and Batman to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, these pop-culture juggernauts, with their "powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men,"...
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Tres
Bilingual Edition
Roberto Bolaño
"Poetry is braver than anyone," Roberto Bolaño believed, and the proof is here in Tres, his most inventive and bracing poetry collection.Roberto Bolaño's Tres is a showcase of the author’s willingness to freely cross genres, with poems in prose...
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Believing Is Seeing
Observations on the Mysteries of Photography
Errol Morris
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris investigates the hidden truths behind a series of documentary photographs. In Believing is Seeing Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography. In his...
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The Man Who Never Died
The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon
William M. Adler
In 1914, Joe Hill was convicted of murder in Utah and sentenced to death by firing squad, igniting international controversy. Many believed Hill was innocent, condemned for his association with the Industrial Workers of the World-the radical...
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The Art of Fielding
A Novel
Chad Harbach
At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight...
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We the Animals
A novel
Justin Torres
An exquisite, blistering debut novel. Three brothers tear their way through childhood— smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off...
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Cain
Jose Saramago
In this, his last novel, Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Bible through the story of Cain.
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New from City Lights Publishers!
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Ether
Ben Ehrenreich
An Earth-bound god whose powers are reduced to petty acts of destruction attempts to reclaim his lost seat in the heavens.
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Los Angeles Stories
Ry Cooder
World-famous musician Ry Cooder publishes his first collection of stories.
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Paper Conspiracies
Susan Daitch
The keys to a historic trap are discovered in a cache of forgeries and crumbling film stock.
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More Notes of a Dirty Old Man
The Uncollected Columns
Charles Bukowski, David Calonne
Sequel to his most famous book, "More Notes of a Dirty Old Man" features rare Bukowski columns unseen in decades.
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Waifs and Strays
Micah Ballard
From the bayous of Louisiana to the pavements of San Francisco, Micah Ballard rounds up his haunting waifs and strays.
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To Die in Mexico
Dispatches from Inside the Drug War
John Gibler
On-the-ground reporting and behind-the-scene stories from Mexico's drug war by Mexico-based journalist, John Gibler.
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Ten Years That Shook the City
San Francisco 1968-1978
Chris Carlsson
The alliances, programs, and goals of a historic decade that continues to shape SF and the world.
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When I Was a Poet
Pocket Poets Number 60
David Meltzer
An autobiographical masterpiece by a prominent Beat poet, who Ferlinghetti has deemed "one of the greats."
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Everything Is Its Own Reward
An All Over Coffee Collection
Paul Madonna
"The book is fantastic.
Of time and tenderness.
Beautiful drawings. Beautiful text.
Ethereal and serious at once.
The book is its own reward."
-- Maira Kalman, author of "And the Pursuit of Happiness"
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