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Apple a Month Club

The Week of Colors

The Queen of Swords

Lazarus Species

Let the Moon Wobble

Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult

Flat Earth: A Novel

The Pelican Child: Stories

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

The Body Can Tolerate: Poems

Tom's Crossing: A Novel

Jack the Modernist

The Anthony Bourdain Reader: New, Classic, and Rediscovered Writing

We Survived the Night

California Rewritten: A Journey Through the Golden State's New Literature

A Guardian and a Thief: Oprah's Book Club: A Novel

Black History Is for Everyone

My Brilliant Friend Deluxe Edition: The Four Volumes: My Brilliant Friend, the Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, the Story of t

Startlement: New and Selected Poems

Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love: A Cookbook

Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories

Middle Spoon: A Novel

Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season

Endling: A Novel

Atavists: Stories

Sky Daddy: A Novel

Aflame: Learning from Silence

I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying: A Memoir

Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick): A Novel

The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

All Friends Are Necessary: A Novel

The Future Was Color: A Novel

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Help Wanted: A Novel

Martyr!: A Novel

The Vulnerables: A Novel

Brutalities: A Love Story

Girls on the Rise

Little Dinosaurs, Big Feelings

Milo the Knight

The Day Moon and Earth Had an Argument

We Found a Hat (The Hat Trilogy #3)

I’ll Love You Till the Crocodiles Smile

Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks Fold-and-Find!

Big (Caldecott Medal Winner & Coretta Scott King Honor Title)

If Flowers Were Little Monsters: A Field Guide to Fact and Fantasy

Impossible Creatures

A Banh Mi for Two

Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All: (A Newbery Honor Book)

Don't Let the Forest In

Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)

The Hotel Balzaar: (A Magical Middle-Grade Mystery About Stories, Secrets, and a Girl Searching for Her Father - For Kids Ages 7-10 in Grades 2-5) (The Norendy Tales)

The Lost Library

An Illustrated History of Urban Legends

I Am Not Jessica Chen

The Invocations

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Thu, 1/8/2026
7:00pm

9th Ave: Bay Area Suite Chapbook Celebration

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Cover of David D. Schmidt's book, San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History. The cover is a topographical image of the Bay Area.

Sat, 1/10/2026
3:00pm

Offsite: David D. Schmidt at San Francisco Botanical Garden

San Francisco Botanical Garden
1199 9th Ave
San Francisco, CA 94122
United States

Cover of Sangamithra Iyer's Governing Bodies. The cover is an illustration of an Indian shore with an elephant looking toward the water.

Mon, 1/12/2026
7:00pm

9th Ave: Sangamithra Iyer with Shruti Swamy

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Sat, 1/17/2026
6:00pm

Offsite: Karl Ove Knausgaard with Rachel Kushner

Calvary Presbyterian Church
2515 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
United States

Cover of Katherine Wela Bogen's novel Queering Him. The cover is dark with an illustration of a man with his eyes closed and head thrown back, a hand from the top of the cover is squeezing a lime onto him.

Tue, 1/20/2026
7:00pm

9th Ave: Katherine Wela Bogen

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Cover of Kathleen Boland's novel, Scavengers. The cover is a desert landscape with a blue sky, and a trippy geometric print faintly on top.

Wed, 1/21/2026
7:00pm

9th Ave: Kathleen Boland with Kate Folk

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Thu, 1/22/2026
7:00pm

9th Ave: Hail Murray! with Anna Brown

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Cover of Esther Lin's poetry collection, Cold Thief Place. The cover is black with a photo of someone's hands clutched together, wearing several rings.

Tue, 1/27/2026
7:00pm

9th Ave: Esther Lin with Christian Gullette

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Wed, 2/4/2026
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Wed, 3/11/2026
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