Bel Canto Books

Thank you for supporting Bel Canto Books, proudly woman- and BIPOC-owned, founded in 2018 in Long Beach CA!

 

We offer a curated selection of fiction, nonfiction, and children's books with a focus on books by historically marginalized authors. Our mission is to foster joy, creativity and curiosity, one book, one connection at a time.

 

A few things to keep in mind:

  • Books ordered from Bookshop will ship directly to you from the warehouse and are not available for local pickup.
  • To see our local, in-store inventory, please visit shopthehangout.com.
  • To learn more about us and sign up for our online book clubs, please visit our website at belcantobooks.net.

 

If you're in the Long Beach, CA area, you can visit our brick-and-mortar shops:

  • Inside KUBO LB (3976 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach CA 90807; open Wednesday-Sunday)
  • Inside The Hangout (2122 E 4th Street, Long Beach CA 90814; open Tuesday - Sunday).

Our bookstore popup is located inside Steel Cup Cafe (2201 N Lakewood Blvd, Long Beach CA 90815; open daily). 

 

Happy reading!

Jhoanna, Founder + Head Booknerd

BEL CANTO BOOKS

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A.I.R. Head: Anatomy of an Artist In Residence Anzu the Great Listener An Asian American A to Z: A Children's Guide to Our History
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FAB Long Beach 2023 Featured Books

The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
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2023 Burning Issues Book Club

A Career in Books: A Novel about Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun
The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere.
What Is Home, Mum?
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
In Limbo
Gay Giant: A Memoir
The Soulmate Equation
When Lola Visits
Holding on
One True Loves
Seoulmates (Original)
Where the Sun Rises: Volume 2
Troublemaker
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Homicide and Halo-Halo
Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons
Booked on a Feeling
Cora Cooks Pancit
In Waves
Love and Other Words
Death by Bubble Tea
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Bloodmarked The Evening Hero
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2022 Staff Picks

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Anniversary)
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic
Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
Decolonizing Wealth, Second Edition: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat
I Am a Filipino: And This Is How We Cook
The Soulmate Equation
When Lola Visits
One True Loves
Happily Ever Afters
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
Bibliophile: Diverse Spines
Filipino Friends
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won't Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do about It
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Rez Life
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Love, Dance & Egg Rolls
Documents
After Perfect
Arsenic and Adobo
Instruments of Empire: Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music During Us Colonization of the Philippines
Flamer
Moments Like This
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
The Foley Artist: Stories
In Waves
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Patron Saints of Nothing
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
The Body Papers: A Memoir
Troublemaker Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) The Leavers
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AAPI Essential Reads