City Lights is a landmark general bookstore, internationally known for our expert selection of titles and our commitment to free intellectual inquiry.
Founded in 1953 as the nation’s first all-paperback bookstore, we now offer both hardcovers and paperbacks from all of the major publishing houses, along with an impressive range of titles from smaller, specialty publishers. Our shop features an extensive selection of poetry, fiction, translations, politics, history, philosophy, music, spirituality, and more, with a staff whose special interests in many fields contribute to the hand-picked quality of what you see on the shelves.
Events
Monday, May 11, 2026, 6:00 pm PST
Linford D. Fisher / Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History
Linford D. Fisher in conversation with Paul C. Rosier - City Lights, Stolen Relations, and Liveright Books present Linford D. Fisher discussing his new book Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History - Published by Liveright
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Staff Picks
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Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
Patricia Evangelista $32.00 Add to cart -

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
Sly Stone $30.00 Add to cart -

Economy of the Unlost: (reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan) (Revised)
Anne Carson $39.00 Add to cart -

Something about a Bear
Jackie Morris $29.95 Add to cart -

Ordinary Notes
Christina Sharpe $35.00 Add to cart -

Learning to Fall
Sally Engelfried $16.99 Add to cart -

Beatrice Likes the Dark
April Tucholke $18.99 Add to cart -

Alindarka’s Children: Things Will Be Bad
Alhierd Bacharevic $19.95 Add to cart -
Will Alexander Original price was: $16.95.$11.87Current price is: $11.87. Add to cartDivine Blue Light (for John Coltrane): Pocket Poets Series No. 63
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Refractive Africa
Will Alexander $16.95 Add to cart
Featured Titles
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July’s People
Nadine Gordimer $17.00 Add to cart -

Into the Beautiful North
Luis Alberto Urrea $16.99 Add to cart -

In the Night Kitchen: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner (Anniversary)
Maurice Sendak $24.99 Add to cart -

Goethe’s Faust
Johann Goethe $16.00 Add to cart -

Love in the Time of Cholera: Introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare
Gabriel Garcia Marquez $30.00 Add to cart -

The Flowers of Evil: (Les Fleurs Du Mal)
Charles Baudelaire $16.95 Add to cart -

Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Anniversary)
Walt Whitman $18.00 Add to cart -

Dracula (Revised)
Bram Stoker $11.00 Add to cart -

Dracula (Revised)
Bram Stoker $25.00 Add to cart -

Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman $13.00 Add to cart




