City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

A landmark independent bookstore & publisher in San Francisco that specializes in world literature, the arts, & progressive politics.

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Children's and Young Adult Books Perfect for These Stay at Home Days VIEW LIST (13 BOOKS)

The Golden Glow

Benjamin Flouw

$17.98 $16.54

We Are Water Protectors

Michaela Goade and Carole Lindstrom

$17.98 $16.54

Octopus Stew

Eric Velasquez

$17.98 $16.54

Charlie Hernández & the Castle of Bones, Volume 2

Ryan Calejo

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Black Brother, Black Brother

Jewell Parker Rhodes

$16.98 $15.62

Here in the Real World

Sara Pennypacker

$17.98 $16.54

Children's and Young Adult Books Perfect for These Stay at Home Days

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Shelter-in-Place Reading from the City Lights Staff

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City Lights Cancelled Events & Readings

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New Hardcover Fiction for April 2020 VIEW LIST (33 BOOKS)

The Roxy Letters

Mary Pauline Lowry

$26.00 $23.40

Breasts and Eggs

David Boyd, Sam Bett, et al.

$27.00 $24.30

Starling Days

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

$26.00 $23.40

Bobby March Will Live Forever (Main)

Alan Parks

$26.00 $23.40

Conjure Women

Afia Atakora

$27.00 $24.30

To Calais, in Ordinary Time (Main)

James Meek

$27.00 $24.30

New Hardcover Fiction for April 2020

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New Hardcover Nonfiction for April 2020 VIEW LIST (54 BOOKS)

Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam

Sean W Anthony

$32.95 $32.95

Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China

He Bian

$39.95 $39.95

We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World

Helen Yaffe

$28.00 $28.00

The Celestial Hunter

Richard Dixon and Roberto Calasso

$35.00 $31.50

A Brief Natural History of Civilization: Why a Balance Between Cooperation & Competition Is Vital to Humanity

Mark Bertness

$28.00 $25.20

The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World--And Globalization Began

Valerie Hansen

$30.00 $27.00

New Hardcover Nonfiction for April 2020

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New from City Lights Publishers

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Happy 101st Birthday, Lawrence Ferlinghetti!

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City Lights Publishers Complete Catalog VIEW LIST (340 BOOKS)

Like a Dog

Tara Jepsen

$15.95 $14.67

Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry

Pedro Lopez Adorno, Pedro Pietri, et al.

$18.95 $17.43

Because We Say So

Noam Chomsky and Henry A Giroux

$15.95 $14.67

Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle

Brad Evans and Henry A Giroux

$17.95 $16.51

The Gunman Lib/E

Jean-Patrick Manchette and James Brook

$13.95 $12.83

Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems

Garrett Caples, Julien Poirier, et al.

$19.95 $18.35

City Lights Publishers Complete Catalog

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Bookstore Staff Recommendations: Hardcover Fiction

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Bookstore Staff Recommendations: Hardcover Nonfiction

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Bookstore Staff Recommendations: Paperback Fiction

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Bookstore Staff Recommendations: Paperback Nonfiction

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Bookstore Staff Recommendations: Children's & Young Adult

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Bookstore Staff Recommendations: Poetry

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City Lights Publishers: Literature in Translation VIEW LIST (58 BOOKS)

Forgotten Journey

Suzanne Jill Levine, Katie Lateef-Jan, et al.

$14.95 $13.75

The Promise

Silvina Ocampo, Suzanne Jill Levine, et al.

$14.95 $13.75

Poso Wells

Gabriela Alemán and Dick Cluster

$14.95 $13.75

The Stone Building and Other Places

Asli Erdogan and Sevinç Türkkan

$15.95 $14.67

Venture of the Infinite Man

Mark Eisner, Pablo Neruda, et al.

$15.95 $14.67

The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian

David Coulter and E F Granell

$16.95 $15.59

City Lights Publishers: Literature in Translation

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City Lights Publishers: Poetry VIEW LIST (101 BOOKS)

Little Hill

Alli Warren

$15.95 $14.67

Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman

Raymond Foye, Tate Swindell, et al.

$19.95 $18.35

Deer Trails: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 7

Kim Shuck

$13.95 $12.83

More Gone: City Lights Spotlight No. 18

Edmund Berrigan

$15.95 $14.67

Cruel Futures: City Lights Spotlight No. 17

Carmen Giménez Smith

$15.95 $14.67

Invocation to Daughters: City Lights Spotlight No. 16

Barbara Jane Reyes

$15.95 $14.67

City Lights Publishers: Poetry

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City Lights Publishers: Beat Generation VIEW LIST (30 BOOKS)

Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman

Bob Kaufman, Devorah Major, et al.

$19.95 $18.35

Howl and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg

$7.95 $7.31

Lunch Poems

Frank O'Hara

$8.94 $8.22

Pictures of the Gone World

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

$8.94 $8.22

City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (-60th Anniversary)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

$21.95 $19.76

I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career: The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, 1955-1997

Bill Morgan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, et al.

$26.95 $24.26

City Lights Publishers: Beat Generation

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City Lights Publishers: Politics and Culture VIEW LIST (45 BOOKS)

New Hardcover Fiction for March 2020 VIEW LIST (28 BOOKS)

The Paris Mysteries, Deluxe Edition

Edgar Allan Poe

$16.95 $15.59

Suncatcher

Romesh Gunesekera

$24.99 $22.49

The Gringa

Andrew Altschul

$27.99 $25.19

The City We Became

N K Jemisin

$28.00 $25.20

Days of Peace (Edition, First English Translation)

Rachel Shihor, Sara Tropper, et al.

$21.50 $19.35

The Mirror & the Light

Hilary Mantel

$30.00 $27.00

New Hardcover Fiction for March 2020

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New Hardcover Nonfiction for March 2020 VIEW LIST (31 BOOKS)

The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy

Daniel Q Gillion

$29.95 $26.96

The Story of Yoga: From Ancient India to the Modern West

Alistair Shearer

$34.95 $31.46

Fighting Words: The Bold American Journalists Who Brought the World Home Between the Wars

Nancy F Cott

$32.00 $28.80

Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life

John Kaag

$22.95 $20.66

Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

Peter Fritzsche

$32.00 $28.80

The People's Revolt: Texas Populists and the Roots of American Liberalism

Gregg Cantrell

$40.00 $36.00

New Hardcover Nonfiction for March 2020

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