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11 of the Most Anticipated Books by Indigenous Authors For the First Half of 2020
It’s the time of year when we’re all looking forward to what great books are coming down the pipe in the time laid out before us. What kind of literary gems will the next twelve months offer? Contemporary Indigenous writers are some of the most exciting literary artists at work today, and there are quite...
A LOOK AHEAD AT SOME NEW CRIME AND MYSTERY SERIES LAUNCHING IN 2020
Prepare yourself for a multi-year, multi-book adventure, because you’re going to love these characters and their worlds. Stumbling across B Is for Burglar, the second book in Sue Grafton’s beloved Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries, brought me back into the crime fiction fold in my 20s. Once I read all of Grafton’s books, I devoured Janet...
On The Literary Life: Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2020!
Did you catch the last episode of The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan? This week, we kick off the new year with a list of books we’re excited about coming out in 2020. LISTEN HERE “2020 will see many wonderful books being published. Today I‘m joined by three of the greatest readers around, who have...
Custom Book Baskets
Our dedicated booksellers can curate a special book basket for anyone! Baskets are tailored by theme or genre. Order our kids basket and receive the latest titles in children’s literature and unique toys and trinkets. Looking to impress your foodie friend? Our foodie baskets includes our favorite cookbooks and delicious treats from The Café at...
Signed First Editions
Still looking for the right gift? Consider us your book experts. Browse through the link below for a selection of signed first edition titles we think you’ll LOVE. *HINT*HINT*: Signed books make great gifts! BROWSE HERE
2019 National Book Award Winners
FICTION In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarefied bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving “Brotherhood of the Arts,” two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does...
The New York Times Book Review: The 10 Best Books of 2019
The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year. Disappearing Earth By Julia Phillips In the first chapter of this assured debut novel, two young girls vanish, sending shock waves through a town perched on the edge of the remote, brooding Kamchatka Peninsula. What follows is a novel...
CHEF ALLEN’S NEW COOKBOOK NOW AVAILABLE!
Savory and Sustainable Seafood Recipes by our very own Chef Allen Susser! BUY THE BOOK HERE A practical guide for cooking seafood: Bringing together the allure of the Caribbean Sea and Caribbean island life, this cookbook offers recipes for cooking with seasonal and unusual ingredients. While most of the recipes call for lionfish, the dishes...
Browse through our collection of SIGNED books from Miami Book Fair 2019!
Did you attend the Miami Book Fair this year and forget to purchase that signed book you wanted? Fear not! Stop into any of our South Florida location this week to browse through our selection of SIGNED books from Miami Book Fair 2019!
Events
An Evening with Isabel Allende
The Adrienne Arsht Center is proud to partner with Books & Books and Miami Book Fair to present Isabel Allende’s A Long Petal of the Sea. Beautifully human in a time when we seem to have forgotten what it is to be that way, A Long Petal of the Sea (Ballantine Hardcover; on sale Jan. 21) follows the...
John Carreyrou
In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim...
Ada Calhoun
When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers....
Diane Rehm
From Diane Rehm, renowned radio host–one of the most trusted voices in the nation–and best-selling author: a book of candor and compassion, addressing the urgent, hotly contested cause of the Right-to-Die movement, of which she is one of our most inspiring champions. Through interviews with terminally ill patients, and with physicians, ethicists, spouses, relatives, and...
Jeanine Cummins
También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco...
Catana Chetwynd
We invite you to spend a lovely Valentine’s evening with your significant other with Catana and John of Catana Comics! TICKETS INFO: Each paid ticket admits two (2) guests, a copy of Catana’s book Snug: A Collection of Comics about Dating Your Best Friend and two (2) glasses of wine from The Café at Books &...
Gish Jen
“The Resisters is palpably loving, smart, funny, and desperately unsettling. The novel should be required reading for the country both as a cautionary tale and because it is a stone-cold masterpiece. This is Gish Jen’s moment. She has pitched a perfect game.” –Ann Patchett The time: not so long from now. The place: AutoAmerica. The land:...
Patrick Radden Keefe
From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was...
Ottessa Moshfegh
From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home While on her normal daily walk with her dog in...
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The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan: A Podcast
Mitchell Kaplan has been a bookseller and has owned the independent bookstores Books & Books for over 35 years. If you love books, writers or are a passionate reader, this podcast is for you. Enter The Literary Life where every Friday you’ll hear candid conversations with Mitchell and his guests. Visit Lit Hub Radio...
Visit us in Grand Cayman!
“Grand Cayman is a small island but it has an intensely passionate cadre of writers and readers. Books & Books in Camana Bay has successfully tapped into that enthusiasm to become the literary centre of the Island.” – Mitchell Kaplan In December 2007, Books & Books went international with the opening of its fourth location...
Visit us in Key West!
Owners, customers thankful for Books & Books | May 09, 2019 BY MAXINE LOPEZ-KEOUGH Florida Weekly Correspondent COURTESY PHOTO I t’s just after 6:15 p.m. in Key West when a family of three pulls to a shuddering stop atop their rented bicycles. After fiddling with cumbersome locks and a fussy child strapped into a bucket seat...