New Arrivals

Elaine Elinson reads from her historical novel, Radiant as the Stars.

Devi S. Laskar lives in Mountain View. Her book, 'Midnight at the War,' came out in April 2026. It’s about a foreign correspondent covering a global conflict... but really it’s a story about love and grief and the relationship between a daughter and her mother.

Danish Kurani lives in Mountain View. His book, 'The Spaces that Make Us,' came out in February 2026.

Lindsay Kent lives in Half Moon Bay. Her book, 'My Twin the Murderer' came out in June, 2026. It's a mind-bending thriller about estranged twin sisters battling a murder rap, the psychedelic mafia, and their own fractured past.

Lauren C. Johnson lives in San Francisco. Her book, The West Facade came out on March 3rd, 2026. It’s a fantasy novel about a statue of St Genevieve who gives into her desire to be human.

"Shavasana, Between Breath and Death," is about the final pose done in a yoga class, as well as using the pose to change our relationship to our feelings about death and dying.

It's a novel that takes on the ways women can disappear; physically and emotionally.

The book is about the first 30 years of one of the most important record labels to come out of the South Bay Area.

Vanessa Hua lives in the East Bay. Her novel, Coyoteland, came out May 12th, 2026. It’s about wealth, privilege and the housing market, as well as territory, predator, and prey.

Jase Peeples lives in San Francisco. His book, Before You Can Fly, came out May 8th, 2026. It’s a YA coming of age romance about a gay, comic-book obsessed teen who is struggling with his growing feelings for his best friend.

It's about a teenage daughter of Armenian immigrants from Istanbul Turkey, who struggles with her identity and searches for the true stories of her family's history of surviving genocide.

Caroline Paul lives in San Francisco. Her book Why Fly? came out February 24th, 2026. She reads a passage about an emergency landing she had to make.

Liam O’Brien lives in San Francisco. His book, "Butterflies of the Bay Area, and (Slightly) Beyond," is about the places and the zones where humans and butterflies converge. It came out September 30th, 2025.

The book is partly a love letter and partly a field guide to the creatures, currents, weather that you might encounter or be curious about walking along the sand or paddling a surfboard a distance from the shore.

The book is about Chinese literary exiles in California. There’s a scandal and a roadtrip as they investigate and look for a mysterious woman who was involved in a murder of one of their friends.

Gary Prost's new book is about his journey across the state from the Marin headlands to the wine country, from the gold fields to Death Valley, to learn about the geology of this amazing state.

John Doll lives in San Francisco. His novel, "St. James Park," is a 1933 noir set in San Jose, about a kidnapping of a department store heir. It came out August 19th, 2025.

Beverly Burch lives in Oakland. Her book, "What You Don’t Know," is about two women whose antagonism turns into something tender and electric, then catastrophic. It came out in May of 2025.

James Cagney's new book is a blend of genres and a personal archive.

Emile DeWeaver lives in Oakland. His book, "Ghost in a Criminal Justice Machine," came out in May 2025. It's about his journey through prison and what he learned about criminal justice and white supremacy.

Kate Folk lives in San Francisco. Her book, "Sky Daddy," came out on April 8th, 2025. It's about a woman named Linda who's sexually obsessed with airplanes.

Caroline M. Mar lives in Oakland. Her latest poetry collection, "Water Guest," came out on April 1st, 2025. It's about Lake Tahoe, the Chinese who built the transcontinental railroad, and at least a little bit about her struggle with losing her family's ancestral language.

Susanna Kwan lives in San Francisco. Her book, Awake in the Floating City it came out in May. It takes place in a future version of San Francisco that's flooded by years of rain.

Aimee Phan lives in Berkeley. Her book, The Lost Queen came out May 6th, 2025. It's about two girls in San Jose who discover that they are the reincarnated queens of Vietnam.

Wendy M. Thompson lives in Oakland. Her book of poetry, "Black California Gold" came out March 2025. In it she looks at the Black Bay area and explores the ways their presence and displacement has continued to shape the region.