Berkeley

Books Inc. Berkeley

1491 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94710
Phone: (510) 525-7777 

Store Hours:

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM Monday-Saturday
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM Sunday 
  

About

We are a general interest bookstore with a variety of fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks, and children’s books for all ages! We also have a wide selection of greeting cards, gifts for children and adults, and books on sale. We are proud to have hosted almost 400 author events since we opened in the summer of 2015. Come say hi! You can find us in the same space that once housed the legendary Black Oak Books..

 

Meet the Manager Schyler Baker

Schyler hails from the East Bay and has been a bookseller for over 15 years.
 

Book Clubs: 

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel By Milan Kundera Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780060932138
Availability: In Stock Now - Click Title to See Store Inventory. Please allow up to 48-hours for Curbside Pickup orders to be processed.
Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - July 5th, 2005

Kundera's classic novel explores the opposing ideas of love and lust, obligation and abandonment, delusion and reality, and more, during the onset of the repressive 1968 Prague Spring period. It's gracefully written, and is full of philosophical acuity and a subtle, intoxicating defiance. Be sure to check out the movie too, which is different, but just as good!

- An 


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My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One By Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781609450786
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Published: Europa Editions - September 25th, 2012

The beginning of an incredible story of female friendship. This is a book you can take your time with. I loved luxuriating in the prose - the descriptions of 1950s Italy and the detailed dynamic characters totally sucked me in. I could read about the lives of these two women forever. 

-Krista 


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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America By Colin Woodard Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143122029
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Published: Penguin Books - September 25th, 2012

A fantastic book that explores some of the cultural underpinnings of North America. It's insightful and digestible, and provides yet another helpful lens to understand our diverse society. 

- An 


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Convenience Store Woman By Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator) Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780802129628
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Published: Grove Press - September 17th, 2019

This novel is as unique and delightful as its protagonist who, against societal expectations, cares far more for her job at a convenience store than for the heteronormative ideals of marriage and family. I loved most her relationship with herself. A quick read and a joy!

-Sara


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Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies By Laura Esquivel Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780385420174
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Published: Anchor - October 1st, 1995

A passionate and delicious novella, Esquivel writes into your heart with Mexican recipes used ti guide the chapters of the book. Many of the details are sensual, a whole new meaning is given to the cooking and preparing of food. Forbidden love has never tasted or smelled so good. * Don't read if you are hungry! * 

- Sam