Green Apple Books
@greenapplebooks.bsky.social
Independent bookstore in San Francisco since 1967. Our Sunset location is @booksonthepark.bsky.social https://greenapplebooks.com/
Oh my gosh, my summer reading package from @charliejane.bsky.social arrived! 😍 Can’t wait to dig into these books!
The cats out of the bag! Do you recognize these incredible books that I handpicked for people's summer reading? <3
Doug Hanke@dougmakingstuff.com · 3w agoOh my gosh, my summer reading package from @charliejane.bsky.social arrived! 😍 Can’t wait to dig into these books!
My summer reading mystery box from @greenapplebooks.bsky.social selected by @charliejane.bsky.social arrived today! 🥳 I don't want to spoil the contents for anyone who is still waiting for theirs, but I'll say I'm super excited about all three books. This was a great idea - I hope you do it again!
Mark your calendars! Next month we jump into our pre-festival schedule🤩 🎟️More info + Tix/RSVP at buff.ly/rku6Rr3 @cheryldunye.bsky.social @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social @ingridrojasc.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @greenapplebooks.bsky.social @cityartssf.bsky.social @laurierking.bsky.social
Fútbol fever ain't over here! Come see Nick Greene tonight to celebrate HOW TO WATCH SOCCER LIKE A GENIUS with Ben Gucciardi. Proceeds benefit Soccer Without Borders. RSVP and details at the link: greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-0...
Happy Pub Day to Claire Vaye Watkins' Yellow Pine! Watkins joins us tomorrow, 7/22. RSVP and details in the thread. "In my fiction I try to say (as beautifully as I can) what I see. I try to see the land as it sees me. Maybe I write to show myself what I believe in." lithub.com/claire-vaye-...
Claire Vaye Watkins on Writing a Love Letter to the Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert is in Claire Vaye Watkins’s DNA. She was born in Bishop, four hours away from Tecopa, the town in Death Valley where her parents lived, which had no hospital, raised in Tecopa and…
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At 31ft x 20ft, Luceros y Penumbras by Daniel Gonzalez is officially the world's largest pop-up book! On display at the LA Central Library until November. youtube.com/shorts/qrWYE...
See the world's biggest pop-up book right here in LA
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"To borrow from John Lee Hooker: It’s in ’em, and it’s got to come out." Gary Phillips joins us on Friday, 7/17 to celebrate his book, THE HAUL (@sohopress.bsky.social) in partnership with @altajournal.bsky.social. www.altaonline.com/california-b...
Why I Write: Let Me See About Getting the Words Right
Gary Phillips’s Violent Spring is the California Book Club’s November 2024 selection.
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Dave Eggers joins us 7/25 for a book signing celebrating CONTRAPPOSTO (@aaknopf.bsky.social)! Details and RSVP at the link below: greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-0...
Jake Skeets, Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation, joins us 7/15 "I cannot separate the land from the body because the way we treat the land is the way we treat the body. And historically, especially for Native people or Indigenous people, that's sort of a lived reality." www.kosu.org/jake-skeets-...
Jake Skeets' new poetry book offers world of hope amid changing climate
Jake Skeets’s new poetry book, Horses, examines the implications of climate change inside his tribal community and the relationship between the land and the body. While apocalyptic at times, Horses le...
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Thanks to @sfstandard.com and to *the* Robin Sloan for being such a champion of Green Apple. sfstandard.com/2026/06/23/1...
The 13 best bookstores in the Bay Area, according to your favorite authors
In this literary mecca, which stores capture the hearts of local writers?
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Spotted in the @greenapplebooks.bsky.social at SFO: books by @meganeokeefe.bsky.social and Mary Berman!
See you tomorrow in the Inner Sunset!
Green Apple Books on the Park@booksonthepark.bsky.social · 2mo ago@debolinunferth.bsky.social joins us tomorrow, 6/16! We love this interview with her and Kyle Francis Williams in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. Event details in the thread: lareviewofbooks.org/article/deb-...
Back in January, we were honored to welcome Karl Ove Knausgaard and celebrate his new release The School of Night! And what better person to join him than SF’s own Rachel Kushner? A special thanks to @sfcalpres.bsky.social for hosting and @greenapplebooks.bsky.social for co-presenting!
If "Happiness is a cup of coffee and a good book," happy "When Trees Testify" (@henryholtbooks.bsky.social) at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social at SFO airport. In good company with @chanda.blacksky.app's "The Disordered Cosmos' & @restingdinoface.bsky.social's "When the Earth was Green" also on shelves.
Wishing @ericscottryon.bsky.social the very best of author-ly luck as his publication tour rolls on! @greenapplebooks.bsky.social
Tomorrow night at @booksonthepark.bsky.social!
The Believer@thebeliever.net · 3mo agoCome celebrate Wesley Brown’s "Looking for Frank Wills," a new novel that reimagines the life of the man without whom there would be no Watergate. SF: May 20 at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social, with Tonya M. Foster NYC: May 27 at P&T Knitwear, with Charles H. Lynch
We cannot wait for this one. Join us in the Inner Sunset--@booksonthepark.bsky.social--and find details at the link below: greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-0...
Rasheed Newson@rasheed.bsky.social · 3mo agoA lot of my youth was torridly misspent in #SanFrancisco, so the city holds a warm place in my heart. And that’s just one of the reasons why I’m looking forward to marking the release of “There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood" @greenapplebooks.bsky.social on June 3 at 7pm. #booksky RSVP - tr.ee/pZO9Cx
We're sorry to see that A Great Good Place for Books is closing, but we are glad to see Kathleen going out with style. What a special place. www.ktvu.com/news/oakland...
'A Great Good Place for Books' in Oakland to close after more than 20 years
A longtime independent bookstore in the Oakland hills will close in the coming weeks due to financial challenges and changing customer habits.
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Earlier this week, I went to @greenapplebooks.bsky.social in San Francisco to celebrate my dear cousin @ericscottryon.bsky.social's publication debut for his first novel I'M THE UNDERTOW. I am so immensely proud of his accomplishment, and cannot wait to read it!!!
Happy Friday! There are signed copies of THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY (a tea specialist-turned-assassin embarks on a dangerous rescue mission) and THIS WORLD IS NOT YOURS (scientists & soldiers try colonizing a sentient planet, but their new home fights back) @greenapplebooks.bsky.social in SFO airport!
I've partnered with the wonderful @greenapplebooks.bsky.social to create a SUMMER READING BUNDLE. You get three books I selected inside a nice care package. Including a sticker with a cat doodle I made! <3 Order by June 7: greenapplebooks.com/subscription/charlie-jane-anders-summer-reading-bundle
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@tracyclarkflory.bsky.social on @kqedforum.bsky.social with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social this morning! Can't wait to host her at @booksonthepark.bsky.social next week. Event details in the thread. Hope to see you there! www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
Tracy Clark-Flory’s “My Mother’s Daughter” Tells the Story of Finding Her Long-Lost Sister | KQED
We talk to Clark-Flory about finding her long-lost sister and learning about why her mother could not keep her child.
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