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Novel set in 9/11-era Middle East features mother/daughter relationship

New Danish Kurani book explores the spaces that make us

Twins – and the psychedelic renaissance – at heart of new Lindsay Kent thriller

Parisian statues come to life in Lauren C. Johnson’s new fantasy

In new book, Leslie Howard, Richard Rosen re-examine shavasana

Jessica Guerrieri explores all the ways women disappear in new novel

Mike Huguenor chronicles iconic indy label Asian Man Records

Vanessa Hua tackles race, class, housing, and suburbia in new novel

Jase Peeples pens YA novel about gay, comic book-obsessed teen

Nadine Takvorian graphic novel explores Armenian genocide

Caroline Paul book extols the wonders of flight

Liam O’Brien creates illustrated guide to Bay Area butterflies

Eddy Rubin book an illustrated nature guide to Ocean Beach

Taiwanese novelist takes a California road trip in Alvin Lu novel

Gary Prost book explores California’s geology

John Doll pens noir set in San Jose

Beverly Burch novel spans San Francisco, Nashville

James Cagney defies genre in ode to Oakland Ghetto Koans

Emile DeWeaver book combines social commentary with personal narrative about prison

Desire – and airplanes – at center of new Kate Folk novel

Relearning language, history in new Caroline M. Mar poetry collection

Susanna Kwan book set in deluged future San Francisco

Aimee Phan pens young adult fantasy inspired by Vietnamese lore

Debut Wendy M. Thompson poetry collection explores the Black Bay Area

Gilded age con artist steals for love in Danielle Teller novel

Violence, humor overlap in lives of queer women in new Lori Ostlund collection

Bonnie Tsui flexes in new book: On Muscle

Khan Wong book combines speculative, historical fiction

Southern road trip inspires new Luiza Flynn-Goodlett poetry collection

Brittany Newell novel explores SF underground, and love

Kat Crosswell coming of age novel features Jazzy protagonist

In new Ellen Barker novel, a woman scrambles after losing tech job

Maxine Rose Schur pens new young adult adventure book

Good people make terrible choices in Samantha Schoech story collection

Elizabeth Horner Turner chapbook offers surreal, offbeat flash fictions

Gloria Huang middle grade fantasy novel explores anxiety, and culture

New collection celebrates Heyday at 50

Alison Owings profiles the “mayor” of the Tenderloin

Jack Gedney guide explores birds in the oaks

L. John Harris searches for story behind a portrait

Anita Felicelli collection explores time, memory, and desire.

Jeff Miller writes irreverent nature guide

New edition of Stephen Most book tracks Klamath dam removal

Terry Tierney's poetry questions our relationships with each other and the earth.

New children’s book explores multi-cultural family moving to new home

Aaron Carnes defends ska music in his expanded, second edition

John Stallcup pens political thriller from Navajo perspective

Jeff Raz's book details circus connections between Nanjing and San Francisco

Environmental novel by Lenore Weiss is set in a paper mill

In memoir, Zack Rogow connects with father he barely knew

Sam Sax novel – longlisted for the National Book Awards – is a queer, Jewish, coming of age story

Sheri Joseph writes near-future love and adventure story

Climate change central to new Nina Schuyler story collection

Love, lust, and gardening in new Marie Mutsuki Mockett novel

Ecy Femi King pens graphic guide to computer science

Summer Brenner’s memoir dedicated to her brother with schizophrenia

Josh Fernandez memoir details life opposed to status quo

Molly Giles memoir spans the Golden Gate Bridge

Aida Salazar uses Mexican indigenous teachings to explain the moon

Katie Flynn writes book of interconnected, genre-bending stories

Natalie Foster argues for a new American economy

William Smock writes middle school novel

Lissa Soep book explores love, language and friendship

Ethel Rohan protagonist questions if she’s in her right life

Family reunites in Mae Respicio middle grade novel

A complicated senior year at the heart of Carolina Ixta debut novel

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett’s eighth poetry chapbook is infused with transformational magic

Margaret Juhae Lee memoir a family search into her grandfather’s revolutionary life

Jason Roberts writes about rivalry that shaped our relationship to the natural world

Sasha Vasilyuk novel features Soviet WWII veteran with a secret

Suburban angst and magic cross paths in a cul-de-sac in Elizabeth Stix story collection

Peter Coyote applies fundamental teachings of the Buddah to modern life

Queer relationships, family history at center of Madeleine Cravens poetry collection

Minnie Phan and Viet Thanh Nguyen publish picture book/graphic novel hybrid

Mara Kardas-Nelson book excavates the history of microfinance loans

Fire rips through Sierra Nevada town in Daniel Gumbiner novel

Dorsey Nunn book chronicles the fight for rights of incarcerated people

Elizabeth Reed Aden pens medical thriller

Storytellers share histories in Greg Sarris's 'The Forgetters'

Satsuki Ina memoir explores her family’s wrongful WWII incarceration

Bridget Quinn writes biography of revolutionary woman artist

Natasha Triplett book celebrates Juneteenth

Jude Berman writes book of speculative fiction

Sheryl Kaskowitz book details secret government folk music program

Alison Throckmorton pens guide of humorous household tips

Caroline Paul book explores women, aging, and the outdoors

Grace Loh Prasad finds her way back to Taiwanese identity in memoir

Andrew Garrett writes about efforts to record stories and languages of California indigenous people

Mary Ladd edits collection about long Covid

Surrealist short story collection from Sommer Schafer

Chas Halpern novel features three women brought together through circumstance

Alvin Orloff novel looks back at a changing San Francisco of the 90s

Adam Mansbach pens romp through history — with a golem come to life

Maya Ealey writes The Anti-Racist Vocab Guide

Stephanie Wildman writes book for kids

Lisa Hamilton book profiles Central Valley rice farmer

Maxine Rose Schur picture book features worst baker, worst seamstress in the world

Ilana DeBare novel is set in the Bay Area … and Hell

Joanne Greene pens memoir after car accident

Molly Giles novel provides a home for unwed husbands