Books Events in New York

Check out happening books events all around New York, NY

Harry Potter and The Cursed Child featuring Tom Felton - New York

 Thu, 19 Mar at 11:00 pm Lyric Theatre - New York

Stranger Things: The First Shadow

 Sun, 05 Apr at 07:00 pm Marquis Theatre

Ellen Burstyn: Poetry Says It Better

 Tue, 28 Apr at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 33

Sheinelle Jones + Al Roker: Through Mom’s Eyes

 Wed, 15 Apr at 07:30 pm Strand Book Store USD 36

Laverne Cox: Transcendent

 Tue, 09 Jun at 07:00 pm The Great Hall at Cooper Union USD 51

U.S Book Show

 Wed, 03 Jun at 09:00 am New York Academy of Medicine USD 172 to 242

Veronica Roth celebrates SEEK THE TRAITOR'S SON at B&N Union Square

 Tue, 12 May at 06:00 pm Barnes & Noble USD 36 to 44

The Great Gatsby

 Thu, 03 Sep at 07:00 pm Broadway Theatre-New York

Matt Haig discusses THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN at B&N Union Square

 Wed, 03 Jun at 06:00 pm Barnes & Noble USD 36 to 44

J.R. Ward discusses CROWN OF WAR AND SHADOW at BNUSQ

 Wed, 15 Jul at 06:00 pm Barnes & Noble USD 40 to 48

Patrick Radden Keefe + David Marchese: London Falling

 Fri, 17 Apr at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 43

Eugene Onegin

 Mon, 20 Apr at 07:30 pm Metropolitan Opera House

Laurie Gilmore celebrates THE DAISY CHAIN FLOWER SHOP at B&N Union Square

 Mon, 04 May at 06:00 pm Barnes & Noble USD 24 to 32

Sarah Dessen + Tamara Fuentes: Change of Plans

 Wed, 06 May at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 28

The Great Gatsby

 Mon, 31 Aug at 07:00 pm Broadway Theatre-New York

Shannon Chakraborty + Hadeer Elsbai: The Tapestry of Fate

 Wed, 13 May at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 44

Steve Schirripa + Michael Imperioli: WillieBoy Eats the World

 Mon, 20 Apr at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 22

Rachel Khong + Mary H.K. Choi: My Dear You

 Thu, 09 Apr at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 36

LEGO Star Wars Build Event at B&N - Union Square

 Sat, 02 May at 03:00 pm Barnes & Noble Free

Mike Schur & Joe Posnanski: Big Fan

 Mon, 18 May at 08:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 43

Jayne Anne Phillips + Lily King: Small Town Girls

 Tue, 21 Apr at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 35

Friendship, Setbacks, & Secrets - A Totally Booked: Live! Event

 Wed, 08 Apr at 10:00 am The Whitby Hotel USD 44 to 55

Indie Lit Fair

 Sat, 02 May at 12:00 pm Washington Square South (between Sullivan St & Thompson St) Free

Protest Novels: Repression, Dissent, and Resistance

 Sat, 02 May at 02:00 pm The Festival Stage on Washington Square South (between Sullivan St & Thompson St) Free

Caribbean Solidarity: Story, Song, and Protest

 Wed, 29 Apr at 06:30 pm The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Free

Dystopia Gets Personal: Laila Lalami & Megha Majumdar

 Fri, 01 May at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 0 to 23

Carley Fortune: Our Perfect Storm

 Mon, 04 May at 07:00 pm The Strand Building USD 48

Jesse Malin: Almost Grown

 Wed, 08 Apr at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 36

Romance Read-In to Benefit Authors Against Book Bans

 Wed, 29 Apr at 07:00 pm Book Club Bar USD 27

Out of the Abyss: Yiyun Li and Édouard Louis

 Wed, 29 Apr at 06:30 pm Strand Book Store USD 0 to 23

Gazillion Bubble Show

 Thu, 21 May at 02:00 pm New World Stages - Stage 2

Elsie Silver discusses FEVER DREAM at B&N Union Square

 Mon, 18 May at 06:00 pm Barnes & Noble USD 24 to 32

Who Belongs? Stories Against a Narrowing World

 Sat, 02 May at 06:30 pm Judson Memorial Church USD 0 to 23

Beyond Empire: Radical Possibility & Genre Fiction

 Fri, 01 May at 08:30 pm NYU Global Center-C95 Lecture Hall Free

The Transformative Power of Graphic Novels for Kids

 Sat, 02 May at 02:00 pm The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Free

Ghost Stories: Siri Hustvedt with Katie Kitamura

 Sat, 02 May at 04:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 0 to 38

WSP Festival Sign Up

 Fri, 10 Apr at 11:00 am 215 East 99th Street, New York, NY, 10029 USD 55

A Night at the Disco by Alice Harris and Christian John Wikane

 Tue, 07 Apr at 06:00 pm Rizzoli Bookstore Free

Mac Barnett: Make Believe

 Fri, 08 May at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 25

In the Shadow of Ivory Towers: The Enduring Appeal of Dark Academia

 Sat, 02 May at 12:00 pm Judson Memorial Church USD 0 to 23

Adele Bertei + Mary Harron & Stephanie LaCava: No New York

 Tue, 07 Apr at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 37

Finding Joy Through Food: A Book Talk & Tasting

 Tue, 14 Apr at 06:00 pm China Institute of America USD 10 to 20

(In-Person) Doris Kearns Goodwin in Conversation

 Thu, 16 Apr at 06:30 pm The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center USD 0 to 107

JOYFUL, ANYWAY - with Kate Bowler

 Thu, 16 Apr at 07:00 pm Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church USD 25

Bury Me Already (It's Nice Down Here) by Julia Wertz

 Thu, 16 Apr at 06:00 pm Rizzoli Bookstore Free

Queerness, Masculinity, and Class

 Sat, 02 May at 04:30 pm The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Free

2026 Blasian March Book Fair

 Sun, 19 Apr at 01:00 pm Immigrant Social Services, Inc. Free

Through Foreign Eyes

 Fri, 01 May at 08:00 pm The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Free

Polymode and XYZ Type~Identity Is Variable

 Thu, 23 Apr at 06:00 pm Museum of Arts and Design USD 12 to 48

Manoush Zomorodi presents Body Electric, with Debbie Millman

 Tue, 05 May at 06:30 pm P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts USD 10 to 34

Jamie Metzl presents The AI Ten Commandments, with Jacob Weisberg

 Mon, 27 Apr at 06:30 pm P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts USD 10 to 32

Author Event & Book Launch: Lucie Franc de Ferriere's "Cake From Lucie"

 Tue, 14 Apr at 08:00 pm Book Club Bar USD 47

Humor, Self-Discovery, & Love - A Totally Booked: Live! Event

 Thu, 16 Apr at 09:30 am The Whitby Hotel USD 44 to 55

Signing with Jennie Garth for I CHOOSE ME @ B&N 5th Ave, NYC!

 Tue, 14 Apr at 12:00 pm Barnes & Noble - 5th Ave USD 39

T.L. Swan signs THE HEART YOU KEPT at B&N Union Square

 Sun, 03 May at 03:00 pm Barnes & Noble USD 24 to 32

Cleo Wade presents In A World of Sunrises

 Tue, 07 Apr at 06:30 pm P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts USD 10 to 33

Harriet Clark + Jacqueline Woodson: The Hill

 Tue, 05 May at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 35

Vital Voices Reading

 Sat, 02 May at 12:30 pm The Festival Stage on Washington Square South (between Sullivan St & Thompson St) Free

Gazillion Bubble Show

 Thu, 23 Apr at 11:00 am New World Stages - Stage 2

Phil Penman: In Conversation + Book Signing

 Tue, 07 Apr at 06:30 pm Leica Store and Gallery New York Free

Mirrors of a Nation

 Sat, 02 May at 02:30 pm Goethe-Institut New York Free

Benoit Denizet-Lewis presents You've Changed, with Wesley Morris

 Wed, 29 Apr at 06:30 pm P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts USD 10 to 37

Isabel Klee signs DOGS, BOYS, AND OTHER THINGS I’VE CRIED ABOUT at BNUSQ

 Wed, 29 Apr at 06:00 pm Barnes & Noble USD 34 to 42

Taylor Wolfe discusses JUST A BUSY SEASON at B&N Union Square

 Mon, 27 Apr at 06:00 pm Barnes & Noble USD 35 to 43

Michel Hurst: Órale: Love and Death in Mexico City

 Mon, 20 Apr at 06:00 pm Rizzoli Bookstore Free

AAWW & The Strand Present: Amin Ahmad + Kirthana Ramisetti

 Tue, 14 Apr at 07:00 pm The Strand USD 0 to 36

Anna Peele + Hunter Harris: Enter the Villa

 Fri, 22 May at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 35

Emma Grede: START WITH YOURSELF Book Tour

 Wed, 15 Apr at 07:30 pm Adler Hall @ The New York Society For Ethical Culture USD 56 to 254

Launch Event | The Faraway Inn

 Tue, 07 Apr at 06:00 pm Books of Wonder Free

Violence, Gender and Liberation: On "Monique Escapes" and "Collapse"

 Fri, 10 Apr at 06:30 pm Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Film Center Free

Pre-K Storytime at 67th Street Library

 Tue, 07 Apr at 04:00 pm 67th Street Library Free

Evelyn Clarke discusses THE ENDING WRITES ITSELF - POURED OVER Live Taping

 Tue, 14 Apr at 06:00 pm Barnes & Noble USD 36 to 44

Sara Van Os + Rachel Harrison: Decomposition Book

 Thu, 21 May at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 37

Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis by Valerie Steele

 Mon, 13 Apr at 06:00 pm Rizzoli Bookstore Free

Typographics Conference 2026

 Fri, 26 Jun at 10:00 am The Cooper Union Foundation Building USD 199 to 429

Marisa Renee Lee + Alison Hall: Waiting for Dawn

 Mon, 06 Apr at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 35

Between the Lines | Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism

 Thu, 23 Apr at 06:30 pm Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Free

Jay McInerney: See You on the Other Side

 Tue, 14 Apr at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 37

Susan Cheever: When All the Men Wore Hats

 Thu, 16 Apr at 06:30 pm The National Arts Club Free

The Inside Scoop: How to Publish a Book With the Big 5 Publishers

 Mon, 20 Apr at 07:00 pm P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts USD 8

Geographies of Extraction: Loss, Power, and Cultural Rematriation

 Wed, 29 Apr at 06:30 pm AIA New York | Center for Architecture USD 0 to 23

Illuminating the Archive

 Thu, 30 Apr at 06:30 pm AIA New York | Center for Architecture Free

Narrating Palestine: Family, History, and Displacement

 Fri, 01 May at 06:00 pm Judson Memorial Church Free

Writing Across Forms: A Conversation with Author-Playwrights

 Fri, 01 May at 07:00 pm Goethe-Institut New York USD 0 to 23

Political Fables

 Fri, 01 May at 06:30 pm NYU Global Center-C95 Lecture Hall USD 0 to 23

Breaking the Silence

 Fri, 01 May at 08:00 pm The Church of the Village USD 0 to 23

Translating Trauma

 Fri, 01 May at 07:30 pm AIA New York | Center for Architecture Free

Past Lives/ Present Loves

 Sat, 02 May at 12:30 pm The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center USD 0 to 23

Romancing the Gods: James Baldwin & Gertrude Stein

 Sat, 02 May at 02:00 pm AIA New York | Center for Architecture USD 0 to 23

Sakura by Kanako Nishi and translated by Allison Markin Powell

 Thu, 09 Apr at 06:00 pm Rizzoli Bookstore Free

NYC Launch Event | Ape Escape by STUART GIBBS

 Thu, 09 Apr at 06:00 pm Books of Wonder Free

AIGA NY Coffee House Series featuring Hybrid Design

 Wed, 08 Apr at 06:00 pm Rizzoli Bookstore Free

Book Club

 Thu, 02 Apr at 09:20 pm wild project USD 29

Walking & Reading The Pickled City, w/ Paul van Ravestein & Monique Mulder

 Sat, 11 Apr at 02:00 pm P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts USD 10 to 40

Storytime with the Author | DAVID EZRA STEIN

 Sat, 11 Apr at 11:30 am Books of Wonder Free

Will Not Let Die: A Bilna'es Book Launch

 Fri, 01 May at 08:00 pm The Poetry Project USD 10

Reading & Book Launch: Musa Mayer reads from ‘Life with P.’

 Thu, 23 Apr at 06:30 pm Hauser & Wirth Free

For a New Political Art: A General Assembly

 Fri, 24 Apr at 06:30 pm NYU Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life Free

Adam Gopnik on Learning to Draw

 Tue, 14 Apr at 06:00 pm The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery Free

Luke Goebel: K*ll Dick

 Mon, 27 Apr at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 33