Harvard Book Store

Make way for turkeys. Harvard Square’s most distinguished visitors have arrived. We assume they’re here for the books.

Harvard Book Store is looking for booksellers to staff our newly announced second location in historic downtown Boston. Come work with books, readers, and the people who make our bookstore what it is.

See the full job descriptions and apply through our Employment page on harvard.com.

Signed copies of Andy Beshear’s Go and Do Likewise have arrived at Harvard Book Store. Pick up your signed copy while they last.

The countdown to Threshing Day begins. Join us at Harvard Book Store for a midnight release party celebrating the next book in Rebecca Yarros’ blockbuster Empyrean series.

Buy tickets at harvard.com/events.

It’s officially fall, and we’ve got autumnal picks for every reading mood at Harvard Book Store. Swipe through and find yours.

Tonight! Get your tickets to hear Governor Andy Beshear of Kentucky discuss his new book, "Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country", a hopeful book by one of America’s brightest political lights. He will be joined in conversation by Governor Maura Healey.

📍 1446 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA
📆 9/24 at 7PM
🎟️ Tickets at harvard.com/event/andy-beshear

A few moments from recent evenings at Harvard Book Store.

We’ve hosted authors, poets, scholars, actors, activists, and plenty of remarkable conversations—and there’s always another one on the calendar. Consider this your reminder to see which great author is next on the schedule. We’ll see you soon.

How did the courts become a battleground for political power?

Alex Wagner will explore the question on September 22 at the the Brattle Theatre. Harvard Book Store will be welcoming journalist and Runaway Country host Alex Wagner for a discussion of her new book, The Steal: Four Right-Wing Hard-Liners, One Republican Presidency, and the Raid on America’s Courts. She’ll be joined in conversation by Indira Lakshmanan, co-host of NPR & WBUR’s Here & Now.

📍 The Brattle Theatre
📅 September 22
🎟️ Tickets available now.

This fall with Harvard Book Store:

📚 Fuchsia Dunlop discusses Five Tastes, her new cookbook celebrating the five fundamental flavors of Chinese cuisine, at the Cambridge Public Library. RSVP required.

📚 Neal Stephenson joins us at First Parish Church for D: Heavy Water, the highly anticipated second installment of his Bomb Light series.

📚 Bonnie Garmus discusses her latest novel, Peck & Peck, in conversation with Daphne Kalotay at First Parish Church.

Come for the books. Stay for the conversation.