Events

March 21 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for this special, ongoing reading series featuring students in the UVA MFA Creative Writing Program.

March 22 11:00am - 12:30pm

Poets Remica Bingham-Risher, Lightsey Darst, and Irène Mathieu will read from their latest books.

March 22 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Poets Maurice Manning and Terry Kennedy will read from their latest collections.

March 22 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Jeff Man, Anya Liftig, and Danielle Chapman will speak about their recent memoirs.

March 22 4:00pm - 5:30pm

The sixth annual Carol Troxell Reader, Dwight Garner, will speak about his new memoir.

March 22 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for the Poetry Critique Circle event, a part of Festival Friday!

March 23 11:00am - 12:00pm

Join us for Storytime, held every Saturday at 11 AM! All ages welcome.

April 05 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an open mic for emerging musicians and writers.

April 06 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for a reading with Tony Keith Jr., author of How the Boogeyman Became a Poet.

April 12 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for a book talk with Andrew W. Kahrl, author of The Black Tax.

April 13 10:15am - 11:45am

The Monthly Saturday Book Club will meet to discuss Geraldine Brooks’s novel Horse.

April 13 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for a book talk with Greg Wrenn, author of Mothership.

April 19 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for the April Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring Raisa Tolchinsky and Kevin Moffett.

April 20 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for an afternoon with Rita Mae Brown, who will read from her new Mrs. Murphy Mystery, Feline Fatale.

April 27 9:30am - 9:00pm

Shop local and support your community bookstore on National Independent Bookstore Day!

April 28 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Join us as we celebrate the release of Christopher Tilghman’s new novel, On the Tobacco Coast.

May 03 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an open mic for emerging musicians and writers.

May 04 10:15am - 11:45am

The Monthly Saturday Book Club will meet to discuss Tara M. Stringfellow’s novel Memphis.

May 04 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for a reading with Mike Albo, author of Another Dimension of Us.

May 10 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening with Sofia Samatar, in conversation with Alix E. Harrow.

May 11 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening with Julia Ridley Smith, in conversation with Jody Hobbs Hesler.

May 17 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for the May Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring B. Brian Foster.

May 24 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for a book talk with Tabitha Stanmore, who will speak about her new book, Cunning Folk.

June 01 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for a book talk with John K. Brown, who will speak about his new book, Spanning the Gilded Age.

June 07 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an open mic for emerging musicians and writers.

June 08 10:15am - 11:45am

The Monthly Saturday Book Club will meet to discuss Bruce Holsinger’s novel The Displacements.

June 14 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening with Joanna Pearson, in conversation with Polly Stewart.

June 21 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for the June Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring Tope Folarin and Mara Adamitz Scrupe.

March 02 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for an afternoon with John Brackett, in conversation with Nick Rubin.

March 02 10:15am - 11:45am

The Monthly Saturday Book Club will meet to discuss Lauren Groff’s novel Matrix.

March 01 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of emerging writers performing their music, poetry, and short stories.

February 24 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening with Kyle Edward Williams, in conversation with Lindsey Hall.

February 23 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening with Clifford Garstang, in conversation with Jay Kauffmann.

February 17 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us as we celebrate the release of Amber McBride’s poetry collection Thick with Trouble.

February 16 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for the February Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring author GennaRose Nethercott and poet Ben Sloan.

February 10 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for an afternoon with Andrew Stauffer, in conversation with Jerome McGann.

February 10 10:15am - 11:45am

The Monthly Saturday Book Club will meet to discuss Hernan Diaz’s novel Trust.

February 09 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for a reading with poets Fernando Operé, Fernando Riva, and Fernando Valverde.

February 03 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for a reading with poets Irène P. Mathieu and K. Avvirin Berlin.

February 02 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of emerging writers performing their music, poetry, and short stories.

January 27 10:00am - 11:00am

Join us for a reading with Leah Naomi Green and Kaveh Akbar, who will read from their essays in Raised by Wolves.

January 26 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening with Kaveh Akbar, in conversation with Henry Hoke.

January 20 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for a book talk with Kimberly D. Acquaviva, author of The Handbook of LGBTQIA-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care.

January 13 10:15am - 11:30am

The Monthly Saturday Book Club will meet to discuss Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Demon Copperhead.

January 12 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for a book talk with Erika Howsare, author of The Age of Deer.

January 05 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of emerging writers performing their music, poetry, and short stories.

November 18 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for a reading with poets Lindsay Turner and Brian Teare.

November 17 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for the November Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring Lisa Parker, Jacob Budenz, and Monica Prince.

November 11 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for a book talk with Diane Flynt, author of Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South.

November 11 10:15am - 11:45am

The New Dominion Book Club will meet to discuss Claire Keegan’s novellas Foster and Small Things Like These.

November 10 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for a book talk with Grace Elizabeth Hale, author of In the Pines.

November 05 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Join us for an afternoon with Patti Hartigan, in conversation with Leslie M. Scott-Jones.

November 04 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening with Christopher Rowe, in conversation with Alix E. Harrow.

November 03 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of emerging writers performing their music, poetry, and short stories.

October 28 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for a book talk with Jeremy Norton, author of Trauma Sponges.

October 27 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening with Jody Hobbs Hesler, in conversation with Sharon Harrigan.

October 22 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Join us for an afternoon with Jhumpa Lahiri, in conversation with Kiki Petrosino at the Paramount Theater.

October 20 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for the October Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring Alex Kingsley, Courtney LeBlanc, and Vonetta Young.

October 14 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for an afternoon with Kim Coleman Foote, in conversation with Daisa Granger Pascall.

October 14 10:15am - 11:45am

The New Dominion Book Club will meet to discuss Matt Haig’s novel The Midnight Library.

October 13 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening with Nicole Chung, in conversation with Taylor Harris.

October 07 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for a reading with Carol Mitchell, author of What Start Bad a Mornin’.

October 06 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of emerging writers performing their music, poetry, and short stories.

September 30 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening with BettyJoyce Nash, in conversation with Helen Chandler.

September 29 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening with Alix E. Harrow, in conversation with Natalie Naudus.

September 23 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for an afternoon with Katharine Schellman, in conversation with Stacie Murphy.

September 22 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us as we celebrate the release of Martin Clark’s new legal thriller, The Plinko Bounce.

September 16 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for an afternoon with Kay Redfield Jamison, in conversation with Ben Martin.

September 15 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for the September Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring Joumana Altallal and Sara Read.

September 09 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an open mic reading featuring undergraduate writers from the APPW and APLP at UVA.

September 09 10:15am - 11:45am

The New Dominion Book Club will meet to discuss Virginia Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse.

September 08 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for a book talk with Melinda McCall, author of Driving Home Naked: And Other Misadventures of a Country Veterinarian.

September 01 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of emerging writers performing their music, poetry, and short stories.

August 25 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening with Henry Hoke, in conversation with Jocelyn Nicole Johnson.

August 05 10:15am - 11:45am

The New Dominion Book Club will meet to discuss Anne Tyler’s novel French Braid.

August 04 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of emerging writers performing their music, poetry, and short stories.

July 22 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for a book talk with Sarah DiGregorio, author of Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World.

July 21 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for the July Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring Mary Brancaccio, Zak Salih, and Chapman Hood Frazier.

July 15 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us as we celebrate the release of Karen Wright Marsh’s new book, Wake Up to Wonder.

July 14 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us as we celebrate the upcoming release of Carolyn McGrath’s new memoir, Two Faces of the Moon.

July 08 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening with New York Times–bestselling author Jeannette Walls, in conversation with Liza Nash Taylor.

July 08 10:15am - 11:45am

The New Dominion Book Club will meet to discuss Tania James’s novel Loot.

July 07 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of emerging writers performing their music, poetry, and short stories.

July 01 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for a book talk about The Inner Ear of Don Zientara, a new book about the legendary DC-area music studio.

June 30 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for a reading with Boo Trundle, author of The Daughter Ship.

June 24 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us as we celebrate the release of Susan Bauer-Wu’s new book, A Future We Can Love.

June 23 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening with Jennifer Ackerman, who will speak about her new book, What an Owl Knows.

June 17 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening with Tania James, in conversation with Anna Beecher.

June 16 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for the June Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring Karen Poppy and D. L. Williams.

June 10 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for a book talk with Frank Hyman, author of How to Forage for Mushrooms Without Dying.

June 10 10:15am - 11:45am

The New Dominion Book Club will meet to discuss Xochitl Gonzalez’s novel Olga Dies Dreaming.

June 09 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us as we celebrate the release of Kathleen Grissom’s new novel, Crow Mary.

June 02 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of emerging writers performing their music, poetry, and short stories.

May 26 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for a book talk with Bart Elmore, author of Country Capitalism.

May 19 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for the May Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring Hajjar Baban and Brendan Slocumb.

May 18 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Fowzia Karimi will discuss their new collaborative book, Small Pieces.

May 13 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for a reading and conversation with poet Samman Akbarzada, author of A Glimmer in the Dark.

May 13 10:15am - 11:45am

The New Dominion Book Club will meet to discuss Fredrik Backman’s novel Anxious People.

May 12 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for a reading with Ernest Thompson, author of The Book of Maps.

May 06 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening with Rachel Beanland, in conversation with Bruce Holsinger.

May 05 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of emerging writers performing their music, poetry, and short stories.

April 29 9:30am - 8:00pm

Shop local and support your community bookstore on National Independent Bookstore Day!

April 28 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening with Shannon McLeod, in conversation with Katharine Schellman.

April 22 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for a reading with poets Annie Kim and Maya Pindyck.

April 21 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for the April Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring Rachael Kesler Palm and Danielle Beazer Dubrasky.

April 15 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for a reading with poets Matt MacFarland and Stephen Cushman.

April 15 10:15am - 11:45am

The New Dominion Book Club will meet to discuss Richard Powers’s novel Bewilderment.

April 14 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening with Paul Bogard, in conversation with Leah Naomi Green.

April 08 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Join us for a Meet and Greet with author Mary Vander Plas and UVA basketball player Ben Vander Plas.

April 07 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of emerging writers performing their music, poetry, and short stories.

March 25 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Debut authors Emily Thiede and Andrew Joseph White will discuss their YA fantasy/dystopian novels.

March 25 12:00pm - 1:00pm

The 2023 Carol Troxell reader, Meghan O’Rourke, will read from her new book, The Invisible Kingdom.

March 11 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us as we celebrate the release of Ann Beattie’s essay collection, More to Say.

March 11 10:15am - 11:45am

The New Dominion Book Club will meet to discuss Laird Hunt’s novel Zorrie.

March 10 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for a reading with poets Daniel Becker and Kristen Staby Rembold.

March 04 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us as we celebrate the release of Caroline Brae’s new book of poetry, Come What May.

March 03 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of emerging writers performing their music, poetry, and short stories.

February 25 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for a reading with Lesley Wheeler and Remica Bingham-Risher.

February 24 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for an evening of poetry and live music with Denver Butson and Jordan Perry.

February 18 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for a reading with Wajahat Ali and Fernando Valverde.

February 17 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for the February Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring Chris Register and imogen xtian smith.

February 11 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for an afternoon with Martha Anne Toll in conversation with Jody Hobbs Hesler.

February 11 10:15am - 11:45am

The New Dominion Book Club will meet to discuss Jason Mott’s novel Hell of a Book.

February 10 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join FLUX Spoken Word and Poetry for an open mic at New Dominion Bookshop.

February 04 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for an afternoon with Mary Llewellyn McNeil in conversation with Caroline Preston.

February 03 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of emerging writers performing their music, poetry, and short stories.

January 28 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us for a reading with poets Hannah Loeb and Christian Schlegel.