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

 Sun, 19 Apr at 12:00 am Lyric Theatre - New York

Stranger Things: The First Shadow

 Sun, 26 Apr at 01:00 pm Marquis Theatre

Rick Ross Discusses RENAISSANCE OF A BOSS at B&N Union Square

 Wed, 13 May at 06:00 pm Barnes & Noble USD 36 to 44

Ellen Burstyn: Poetry Says It Better

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

Greenmarket Book Signing with Padma Lakshmi

 Sat, 02 May at 11:00 am Union Square Greenmarket Free

Signing with Jet Li for BEYOND LIFE AND DEATH @ B&N 5th Ave, NYC!

 Tue, 05 May at 12:00 pm Barnes & Noble - 5th Ave USD 36

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

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

Joshua Bassett celebrates ROOKIE at B&N Union Square

 Tue, 05 May at 06:00 pm Barnes & Noble USD 31 to 39

Author Talk featuring Touré Roberts + Special Guest Leslie Odom Jr.

 Wed, 29 Apr at 07:00 pm The Abyssinian Baptist Church USD 30

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

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

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

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

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

Sarah Dessen + Tamara Fuentes: Change of Plans

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

Jon Krakauer & David Grann

 Sun, 10 May at 07:00 pm Kaufmann Concert Hall at 92nd Street Y

Mike Schur & Joe Posnanski: Big Fan

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

Will Guidara discusses UNREASONABLE HOSPITALITY: The Field Guide

 Tue, 28 Apr at 06:00 pm Barnes & Noble USD 35 to 43

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

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

Shannon Chakraborty + Hadeer Elsbai: The Tapestry of Fate

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

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

Carley Fortune: Our Perfect Storm

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

Art and Black Power: Mapping Malcolm at the Apollo

 Fri, 01 May at 08:00 pm 233 W 125th St Free

Ashley and Kristina celebrate THE SOMEDAY GARDEN & THE SUMMER GIRLFRIEND

 Tue, 16 Jun at 06:00 pm Barnes & Noble USD 25 to 56

Caribbean Solidarity: Story, Song, and Protest

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

TASTE Live at Rizzoli with David Lebovitz

 Mon, 04 May at 06:00 pm Rizzoli Bookstore USD 29

Scott Simon presents Ulysses S. Cat and Other Animals I Have Known

 Tue, 26 May at 06:30 pm P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts USD 10 to 29

Romance Read-In to Benefit Authors Against Book Bans

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

Manoush Zomorodi presents Body Electric, with Debbie Millman

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

The Transformative Power of Graphic Novels for Kids

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

Out of the Abyss: Yiyun Li and Édouard Louis

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

Dystopia Gets Personal: Laila Lalami & Megha Majumdar

 Fri, 01 May at 07:00 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

Sarah A. Parker discusses THE BALLAD OF FALLING DRAGONS at B&N Union Square

 Thu, 21 May at 06:00 pm Barnes & Noble USD 41 to 49

Queerness, Masculinity, and Class

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

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

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

Ghost Stories: Siri Hustvedt with Katie Kitamura

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

Mac Barnett: Make Believe

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

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

Cory Doctorow: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

 Wed, 24 Jun at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 23

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

Decline and Fall

 Thu, 14 May at 07:00 pm New York Society for Ethical Culture USD 34

Through Foreign Eyes

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

Conversion Therapy Dropout Launch Party

 Tue, 05 May at 06:30 pm Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center USD 0 to 25

Chuck Tingle discusses FABULOUS BODIES at B&N Union Square

 Fri, 10 Jul at 06:00 pm Barnes & Noble USD 34 to 42

An Evening with Maggie O'Farrell

 Thu, 25 Jun at 07:00 pm Iris Cantor Theatre at the John A. Paulson Center USD 0 to 45

The City Unseen by Daniel Sackheim: An Evening of Photos, Stories & Drinks

 Sat, 09 May at 06:00 pm Leica Store and Gallery 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

Agatha Christie's Black Coffee: Grounds for Murder

 Sat, 18 Apr at 03:00 pm The Players Theatre USD 45

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

Garry Trudeau & Joshua Kendall in Conversation

 Mon, 25 May at 07:00 pm Buttenwieser Hall

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

Sara Van Os + Rachel Harrison: Decomposition Book

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

Anna Peele + Hunter Harris: Enter the Villa

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

Mirrors of a Nation

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

Against Erasure: Black Histories

 Sat, 02 May at 12:00 pm Goethe-Institut New York USD 0 to 23

Exhibition Opening: To Uncover and Reveal to the World

 Thu, 07 May at 06:00 pm Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Free

La Ligne New York x Erin Walsh: THE ART OF INTENTIONAL DRESSING

 Sat, 02 May at 05:00 pm La Ligne Madison USD 37

Will Not Let Die: A Bilna'es Book Launch

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

Luke Goebel: K*ll Dick

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

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

Typographics Conference 2026

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

Narrating Palestine: Family, History, and Displacement

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

Translating Trauma

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

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

Signing with Michael Chatfield for THE TWO WEEK CURSE @ B&N 5th Ave, NYC

 Thu, 21 May at 01:00 pm Barnes & Noble - 5th Ave USD 36

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

 Sun, 13 Sep at 07:00 pm Lyric Theatre - NY

Patricia Park presents Ambrosia Lee Drops the Mic, with Soo Ra

 Thu, 30 Apr at 06:30 pm P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts USD 10 to 23

Food Therapy: Author Talk and Book Signing with Luis Mojica

 Tue, 28 Apr at 07:00 pm 117 Crosby St USD 54

Meet Oliver Jeffers!

 Thu, 30 Apr at 06:00 pm Books of Wonder Free

Celebration of the Harlem Renaissance: The Literary Salons of 1920s Harlem

 Wed, 29 Apr at 03:30 pm Meet in front of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - New York Public Library USD 29

Isaac Fitzgerald: American Rambler

 Tue, 12 May at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 39

Katie Holt: The Last Page

 Mon, 11 May at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 25

Jesus Our True Friend with Sally Lloyd-Jones and Jon Guerra

 Sat, 02 May at 07:00 pm Redeemer Presbyterian Church East Side USD 34

Author Event: Daniel Root's "The East Village Then and Now"

 Sun, 03 May at 07:00 pm Book Club Bar Free

The Great Global Transformation

 Wed, 06 May at 06:30 pm Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center Free

The Paris Novel: An Evening with Ruth Reichl

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

Steven W. Thrasher + Samhita Mukhopadhyay: The Overseer Class

 Tue, 19 May at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 39

Sonya Walger: Wifehouse

 Wed, 20 May at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 24

Mother Dearest: Understanding our Mothers

 Thu, 30 Apr at 06:30 pm The Church of the Village USD 0 to 23

Illuminating the Archive

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

2026 Lammy Awards

 Fri, 12 Jun at 06:00 pm Sony Hall USD 189

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

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

The Ground Beneath Our Feet: The Border Rewritten

 Sat, 02 May at 02:00 pm The Church of the Village USD 0 to 13

Sean Spicer Book Signing for Trump 2.0

 Tue, 12 May at 05:30 pm Metropolitan Republican Club USD 45 to 55

THE MANHATTAN RARE BOOK & FINE PRESS FAIR 2026

 Sat, 02 May at 09:00 am St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church USD 20

Jenny Sais Quoi: Adventures in Vintage & Personal Style by Jenny Walton

 Wed, 29 Apr at 06:00 pm Rizzoli Bookstore Free

Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present by RoseLee Goldberg

 Mon, 27 Apr at 06:00 pm Rizzoli Bookstore Free

Vital City: Does When We're Born Make Us Who We Are?

 Mon, 27 Apr at 05:00 pm NYU Wagner Free

Meet Andrew Keenan-Bolger!

 Mon, 27 Apr at 06:00 pm Books of Wonder Free

Amy Ephron + Jill Santopolo: Unseasonably Cold

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