The Booksmith

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Your friendly neighborhood independent booksellers. Haight Street, San Francisco. Est. 1976. 11AM - 7PM daily. Find the good stuff at booksmith.com

pizza pie getting cut
printing press whirring out prints
illustration of a vase with lemons and blooms over some bright colors and the text THE BOOKSMITH 50TH BIRTHDAY, JULY 18 2026
graphic for the event with headshots of andrew sean greer and r.o. kwon and the cover image for VILLA COCO
love the world or get killed trying by alvina chamberland the expert of subtle revisions by kirsten menger anderson valencia by michelle tea zami by audre lorde woke up no light by leila mottley mammoth by eva baltasar villa coco by andrew sean greer so many stars by caro de robertis screwball asses by christian maurel the loves of my life edmund white bury it by sam sax darryl by jackie ess kiss of the spider woman by manuel puig
graphic for silent reading party, with little watercolor illustrations from around the shop
graphic for the event with a big eye and the text: it's bookstore day come see! saturday april 25 shenanigans all day long @ booksmith
front of the shop
graphic for a reading with melissa auf der maur
manga section at the shop
graphic for the event with headshots of devi s. laskar and regina marler and the cover image for MIDNIGHT, AT THE WAR
graphic for the event with headshots for anna dorn and kate folk and the cover image for AMERICAN SPIRITS
graphif for the event with a hand holding a rose in front of a sky
graphic for the event with headshots of peter richardson and joel selvin and the cover image for BRAND NEW BEAT
graphic for the event with headshot of brontez purnell and the cover image for TEN BRIDGES I'VE BURNt
graphic for the event with headshots for kim samek and jonathan escoffery and the cover for I AM THE GHOST HERE
graphic for the event with headshot of karen russell and cover for THE ANTIDOTE
photo of the front of the shop
photo of the interior of the bookshop with the big eye above the door to the back
graphic for tue 3/31 silent reading party with little watercolor doodles from around the shop
valentines day cards available at the booksmith
bright green graphic for the event with a headshot of Rebecca Sonit and the cover image for THE BEGINNING COMES AFTER THE END
graphic for slient reading party with little watercolor illustrations from around the shop
sign at th shop with the omar el akkad quote: the moral component of history, the necessary component, is simply a single question, asked over and over again: when it mattered, who sided with justice, and who sided with power?
grahpic for silent reading party with little watercolor illustrations around the shop
graphic for the event QUEER LOVE with names in candy hearts
graphic for the event with headshots of gabriel tallent and r.o. kown and a cover image for CRUX
flyer for the drag show with a collage of images
photo of a pink sweatshirt with a pug on it tacked to a pillar at the shop
a massive stack of HEATED RIVALRY (no, this is not all of them)
stacks of books: how to relax - thich nhat hanh the orange and other poems - wendy cope the employees - olga ravyn my year of rest & relaxation - otessa moshfegh all about love - bell hooks sky daddy - kate folk one day, everyone will have always been against this - omar el akkad enshittification - cory doctorow martyr! - kaveh akbar butter - asako yuzuki if cats disappeared from the world - genki kawamura i who have never known men - jacqueline harpman all fours - miranda july pure colour - sheila heti lucky day - chuck tingle demon copperhead - barbara kingsolver the how - yrsa daley-ward how to fuck like a girl - vera blossom on lying and politics - hannah arendt stay true - hua hsu parable of the sower - octavia butler four thousand weeks - oliver burkeman bury our bones in the midnight soil - v.e. schwab sunrise on the reaping - suzanne collins finding my way - malala yousafzai
pink sweatshirt with yellow iggy illustration tacked to a pillar inside the shop
copy of THIS YEAR opened to the title page with a signature and date from John Darnielle. it is sitting on top of a massive stack of books.
flyer for holiday shopping night featuring a doodle of the shop frony covered in christmas lights and the text HOLIDAY SHOPPING NIGHT FRIDAY, DEC 19, TIL 9PM
a doodle of a christmas tree, a mailbox, and santa with shipping dates on a pile of books
DEALER'S CHOICE graphic with an array of books like a hand of cards. the text reads "don't know what to read next? let our booksellers send you a mystery box!"
flyer for the hamnet book crawl
green sweatshirt with iggy illustration
flyer for the event with little watercolor illustrations of silent reading party
flyer for the event with headshots of Jinwoo Park and Meng Jin and the cover image for OXFORD SOJU CLUB
flyer for the event with headshots of anna north and esme wang, and the cover image for BOG QUEEN
display of hanya yanagihara's A LITTLE LIFE on a table in front of a plant and bookshelves at the shop
graphic for the event with a headshot of Adam Johnson and the cover image for THE WAYFINDER
graphic for the event with headshots of the panelists and the cover image for ADOPTION UNFILTERED
graphic for the event with headshots of the panelists
graphic for the event with a headshot of sasha bonét and the cover image for THE WATERBEARERS
graphic for the event with headshots of the panelists and the cover image for WE LOVED TO RUN
graphic for the event with headshots of cory doctorow and jenny odell and the cover image for ENSHITTIFICATION
graphic for the event with a headshot of adam johnson and the cover image for THE WAYFINDER
graphic for the event with headshots of the panelists
graphic for the event with a collage of queens
front of the shop looking up at the flower box
graphic for the event with headshots of malala yousafzai and ayesha curry and a cover image for FINDING MY WAY
flyer for the event with headshots of jason diamond and colin winnette and the cover image for KAPLAN'S PLOT
flyer for the event with a collage of images of the queens
graphic for the event with headshots for peter mountford, jon hickey, and vanessa hua, and the cover image for DETONATOR
one of the backroom computers surrounded by various bits of postcards and prints and other paper swag