Harvard Book Store

Harvard Book Store welcomes Julie Orringer—author of three award-winning books: How to Breathe Underwater, The Invisible Bridge, and The Flight Portfolio, which was the basis for the 2023 Netflix series Transatlantic—for a discussion of her new novel, Luna, Phoenix, Queen. She will be joined in conversation by Jayne Anne Phillips—author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Night Watch. About Luna, Phoenix, Queen A spellbinding […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian—cardiologist, public health scientist, and Director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University—for a discussion of his debut book, Food Is Medicine: Healing Our Bodies, Nourishing Our Minds, and Transforming Our Food System. About Food Is Medicine An urgent exposé of how the food we eat is making us sick, how […]

RSVP is required for this event. Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Fuchsia Dunlop—James Beard Award–winning author The Food of Sichuan and the IACP Award finalist Invitation to a Banquet —for a discussion of her new cookbook, Five Tastes: Delicious Recipes for Chinese Flavors. Ticketing RSVP for free to this event or choose the "Book-Included" ticket to reserve […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Marcia Chatelain—Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise—for a discussion of her new book, How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington. She will be joined in conversation by Christian Hosam—Assistant Professor of Political Science and Faculty […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Akbar Shahid Ahmed—award-winning journalist and Diplomatic Correspondent at NOTUS—for a discussion of his new book, Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War in Gaza. He will be joined in conversation by Indira Lakshmanan—award-winning journalist and co-host of WBUR's Here & Now. About Crossing the Red Line A powerful and authoritative account of how the Biden administration […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Jim Emison—retired Tennessee trial attorney, co-founder of Tennesseans for Historical Justice, and a board member of the Tennessee Historical Society—for a discussion of his book, Murder on the Hatchie: The NAACP's First Martyr. He will be joined in conversation by Cornell William Brooks—Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations and Professor of the Practice […]

Join us for our October Harvard Square Book Circle meeting! This month we're discussing Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey. Don't forget each book we discuss is part of our featured Select 70 for frequent buyer members. The Book Circle is Harvard Book Store's monthly book club open for members of the community to meet and […]

Harvard Book Store welcomes Thomas Frank—a founding editor of The Baffler, a former columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and the bestselling author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? and Listen, Liberal—for a discussion of his new book The Creativity Con: How Innovation Became America's Biggest Racket. About The Creativity Con A bold indictment of America’s chronic obsession with creativity and innovation, tracing how these beloved […]

Harvard Book Store invites you to a special midnight release party event for the highly anticipated sixth book in Sarah J. Maas' smash-hit A Court of Thorns and Roses series. The title and cover will be announced soon. Ticket holders will have access into the bookstore beginning at 10:30pm for 90 minutes of ACOTAR-themed activities, including […]

The Practice of Wisdom Panel with contributors Davíd Carrasco, Arthur Kleinman, Stephanie Paulsell & Michael Puett at the Cambridge Public Library