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JUST ANNOUNCED:

 

Just Ask cover and author Sonia Sotomayor

 

Join us on Saturday, September 21 at Eastern High School for a special event with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor!

 

 

Get the inside story--read the latest issue of our store newsletter.

 

 

We're hiring! Join our team as our Events and Marketing Manger

 

East City Bookshop Bestsellers

  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel Cover Image
  • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Cover Image
  • Little Women: 150th-Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Cover Image
  • The Nickel Boys: A Novel Cover Image
  • The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! Cover Image
  • Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel Cover Image
  • Conversations with Friends: A Novel Cover Image
  • How to Be an Antiracist Cover Image
  • Americanah Cover Image
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    Educated: A Memoir Cover Image

Upcoming Author Events

Linnea Hartsuyker, THE GOLDEN WOLF in conversation with Carrie Callaghan, A LIGHT OF HER OWN
09/16/2019 - 6:30pm
Sonia Sotomayor, JUST ASK! BE DIFFERENT, BE BRAVE, BE YOU, with Carmen Iguina Gonzalez
09/21/2019 - 3:00pm
Mariama Lockington, FOR BLACK GIRLS LIKE ME, with Nicole Chung, ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW
09/23/2019 - 6:30pm
George Packer, OUR MAN
09/25/2019 - 6:30pm
Bryn Greenwood, THE RECKLESS OATH WE MADE
09/26/2019 - 6:30pm
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Book Clubs

Well-Read Black Girl Book Club reads TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NEGRO GIRLS by Camille Acker
09/15/2019 - 3:00pm
Stranger Than Fiction Book Club reads BLOOD, BONES & BUTTER by Gabrielle Hamilton
09/15/2019 - 4:00pm
Really Reading Romance reads THE RIGHT SWIPE by Alisha Rai
09/20/2019 - 6:30pm
New Fiction Book Club reads MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION by Ottessa Moshfegh
09/22/2019 - 4:00pm
Social Justice Book Club reads THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER by Francisco Cantú
09/24/2019 - 6:30pm
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tel  202.290.1636

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Upcoming Events

  • Well-Read Black Girl Book Club reads TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NEGRO GIRLS by Camille Acker
    09/15/2019 - 3:00pm
  • Stranger Than Fiction Book Club reads BLOOD, BONES & BUTTER by Gabrielle Hamilton
    09/15/2019 - 4:00pm
  • Linnea Hartsuyker, THE GOLDEN WOLF in conversation with Carrie Callaghan, A LIGHT OF HER OWN
    09/16/2019 - 6:30pm
  • Storytime
    09/17/2019 - 11:00am
  • CHRS Preservation Café: Preserving Our Neighborhood Trees
    09/18/2019 - 6:30pm
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Sun  11a - 6p

 

645 Pennsylvania Ave SE

Washington, DC  20003

tel  202.290.1636

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