East Bay Events

Books Inc. Berkeley proudly welcomes local author Paul Justison for a reading from his debut novel Lost and Found in the 60s, a illuminating vision of San Francisco in the era of flower children, free love, and groovy music!

Holden Caulfield returns as Mark Stenrud to bring the psychedelic era vividly to life.

Katherine Corcoran will be signing copies of her new book, In the Mouth of the Wolf: a Murder, a Cover-up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press

Pulitzer Prize finalist and Emmy award winning author Susan Griffin joins Books Inc. Berkeley for a reading from her nonfiction book, Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Something, Nothing, that will help you write the story you're meant to!

Susan will be joined in conversation by renowned writer & editor Deirdre English.

All attendees will be required to wear a mask for this event.

YA@Books Inc. Alameda presents author Mark Parsons in celebration of his new YA novel The 9:09 Project!

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Books Inc. Berkeley proudly presents local author Emil DeAndreis for a reading from his new book Tell Us When To Go, featuring a millennial coming-of-age story set in San Francisco at the start of the 2010 tech boom.

Books Inc. Berkeley proudly presents scholar and former philosophy professor Dr. Jennifer Vest for a introduction to her book The Ethical Psychic!

A 101 guide for psychics and energy workers to build an authentic, equitable, and culturally sensitive healing practice, written by Afro-Indigenous intuitive, scholar, and healer Dr. Jennifer Lisa Vest.

Books Inc. Berkeley proudly welcomes Victoria Lilenthal for a reading from her book The T Room!

Single mom Vera West's bodywork career is on fire, but her dynamic partnership with her charismatic and sexy married mentor turns out to be more like a deal with the Devil. Fraught with yearning, questionable decision-making, and fierce female competition, Vera's path to self-authority is a humorous and insightful tribute to the power of compassion.

Join Books Inc. Berkeley for a literary event with poet Heather Bourbeau, to hear from her new book Some Days The Bird! 

Throughout 2021, as COVID and climate change battled for supremacy in the hearts and minds of the world, American poet Heather Bourbeau and Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey engaged in a poetry conversation back and forth across the globe, alternating each week, to create 52 poems over 52 weeks.

Join Books Inc. Berkeley in welcoming New Yorker writer and professor Hua Hsu in conversation with bestselling author Tommy Orange for a thrilling discussion about Hsu's critically acclaimed and widely anticipated debut memoir Stay True!

A coming-of-age story that details both the ordinary and extraordinary, Stay True is a bracing memoir about growing up, and about moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging.