Events
Join us for the next installment of the Charlottesville Reading Series, featuring Emily Pease, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, and Will Marsh.
Join us for Storytime, held every Saturday at 11 AM! All ages welcome.
Join us as we celebrate the release of Susan Jane McCulley’s new book, Octabusy: How To Let Go in a Sea of Doing. A signing will follow.
Join us every Thursday evening at 8 pm for this special, ongoing reading series featuring one poet and one prose writer each week from the UVA Creative Writing MFA student body.
Join us for a reading with poets Brian Teare and Gillian Conoley.
Join us for an afternoon with poet and essayist Laurance Wieder, who will be reading from his new books.
Join us for First Fridays as we celebrate the art of Chris Butler.
Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of young writers performing their short stories, poetry, and music.
Meet the author! Join us for a special Storytime with Stephanie Taylor, author of the picture book I Can Change Everything.
Join us as we celebrate the release of the seventeenth volume of American Fiction, featuring Kathleen Ford’s short story “Shabbos Goy.”
The UVA Club of Charlottesville Book Club will meet to discuss Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Join us as we celebrate the release of tavola: 10 greatest hits—music and food.
Join us for an evening with Lawrence Jackson, a former White House photographer and the author of Yes We Did.
The New Dominion Book Club will meet to discuss Virginia Holman’s book Rescuing Patty Hearst.
Join us as we celebrate the release of Lawrence Reid Bechtel’s novel A Partial Sun. A signing will follow.
Join us for the next installment of the Charlottesville Reading Series, featuring Amber Sparks and Nan Macmillan.
Join us as we celebrate the release of Thorpe Moeckel’s new book, Down by the Eno, Down by the Haw. A signing will follow.
Join us for a short concert with the Virginia Belles, who will be singing songs from their fall repertoire.
Join us as we celebrate the reissue of Gregory Orr’s memoir, The Blessing. A signing will follow.
Join us and Shakespeare on the Lawn for a special performance of scenes from Shakespeare’s best-loved plays.
Join us for a reading with poets Jillian Weise and Lindsay Stuart Hill.
Meet the author! Join us for a special Storytime with John Stith, author of the picture book The Climbing Tree.
The UVA Club of Charlottesville Book Club will meet to discuss Agatha Christie’s mystery novel Hercule Poirot’s Christmas.
Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of young writers performing their short stories, poetry, and music.
Join us for an evening with local musician Chris Campanelli.
Join us for the next installment of the Charlottesville Reading Series, featuring Chet’la Sebree, Marco Rafalà, and Amie Whittemore.
Join us for an evening with Peter Finn, author of A Guest of the Reich.
Join us for a book talk with Sharon Marcus, author of The Drama of Celebrity. Professor Jack Hamilton will moderate the discussion.
Join us as we celebrate the release of Mariflo Stephens’s poetry collection, Dream Straw. A signing will follow.
Join us for a book talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alan Taylor, who will be speaking about his new book, Thomas Jefferson’s Education.
Join us as we celebrate the release of R. Barber Anderson’s novel The Sunken Forest. A signing will follow.
Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of young writers performing their short stories, poetry, and music.
Join us for First Fridays as we celebrate the art of John Lynch.
The UVA Club of Charlottesville Book Club will meet to discuss Angie Thomas’s young adult novel The Hate U Give.
Join us as we celebrate the release of James C. Zimring’s book What Science Is and How It Really Works.
Join us for a reading with Julia Henshaw, who will be reading from her new collection of essays, Real Good Stories.
The New Dominion Book Club will meet to discuss Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon.
Join us for a concert with the Clarinet Ensemble of the Municipal Band of Charlottesville.
Join us as we celebrate the release of Lindsay Lerman’s debut novel, I’m From Nowhere. A signing will follow.
Join us as we celebrate the release of J. Dirk Nies’s book, Floriescence. A signing will follow.
Join us for the next installment of the Charlottesville Reading Series, featuring A.D. Carson and Joanna Pearson.
Join us for a talk with Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival violinist Tim Summers.
Join us for an evening with Rachel Monroe, who will be reading from her true crime nonfiction book, Savage Appetites.
In this interactive brown-bag lunch & learn, memoirist Sharon Harrigan will talk about “Writing About Family—How To and (Especially) How Not To.”
Join us at C’ville Coffee as we celebrate the release of Gayla M. Mills’s book, Making Music for Life.
Join us for a special Storytime with local librarian Sarah FitzHenry, who will share stories from beloved dinosaur books.
Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of young writers performing their short stories, poetry, and music.
The UVA Club of Charlottesville Book Club will meet to discuss Sonia Purnell’s book A Woman of No Importance.
Join us for a reading with author Karen A. Chase, who will be reading from her new historical fiction novel, Carrying Independence.
The Page to Screen Book Club will meet for a special screening of Love, Simon.
Join us as we celebrate Tony Gentry’s book The Coal Tower. A signing will follow.
The New Dominion Book Club will meet to discuss Elizabeth Acevedo’s young adult novel The Poet X.
Join us for the release of Caroline Brae’s new poetry collection, When Grey Turns Blue. A signing will follow.
The UVA Club of Charlottesville Book Club will meet to discuss Ayse Kulin’s novel Last Train to Istanbul.
Join us for a special Storytime with local librarian Sarah FitzHenry, who will share stories from Mo Willems’s Pigeon books.
Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of young writers performing their short stories, poetry, and music.
Join us for First Fridays as we celebrate the art of Terry M. Coffey.
The New Dominion Book Club will meet to discuss Michael Ondaatje’s novel Warlight.
Join us for the next installment of the Charlottesville Reading Series, featuring Adam Roux, Lisa Dordal, and Juliana Daugherty.
Join us as we celebrate the release of Robin Traywick Williams’s book The Key to the Quarter Pole. A signing will follow.
Join us for an evening with bestselling author Martin Clark, who will read from his new novel, The Substitution Order.
Join us for a brown bag lunch discussion of Jane Austen and the many ways in which her stories have been adapted in popular culture.
Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of young writers performing their short stories, poetry, and music.
Join us for a reading with writers Cary Holladay (Brides in the Sky) and Bruce Holsinger (The Gifted School).
The UVA Club of Charlottesville Book Club will meet to discuss Trevor Noah’s memoir Born a Crime.
Join us for a reading with Megan Griswold, author of The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies.
Join us for a special Storytime with local librarian Sarah FitzHenry, who will share a story from the Narwhal and Jelly series.
Join us for a reading with poets Irène Mathieu (Grand Marronage) and Annie Kim (Into the Cyclorama).
The Page to Screen Book Club will meet for a special screening of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.
Join us as we celebrate the release of Jerry Ratcliffe and Chris Graham’s book, Team of Destiny.
The New Dominion Book Club will meet to discuss Tommy Orange’s novel There There.
Join us for the next installment of the Charlottesville Reading Series, featuring novelist Helon Habila and artist Orion Faruque.
Join us for an evening with poet Gregory Orr, who will be reading from his new collection, The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write.
Join us for a book talk with Robert O’Connell, author of Revolutionary: George Washington at War.
Join us for a book talk with author and activist Andy Parker, who will be speaking about his book, For Alison.
Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of young writers performing their short stories, poetry, and music.
Join us for First Fridays as we celebrate the art of Nina Thompson.
The UVA Club of Charlottesville Book Club will meet to discuss A. J. Finn’s thriller The Woman in the Window.
Join us for a reading and book talk with Shennette Garrett-Scott, author of Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal.
Join us as we celebrate the release of Andrea Beatriz Arango’s young adult novel, Westwood Monster Patrol. A signing will follow.
Join us as we celebrate the release of Priya Mahadevan’s new children’s book, Trudeau’s Magic Box. A signing will follow.
Join us for a reading with Casey Cep, author of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee.
Please join us for the awards ceremony of the Village School Jambalaya "Silhouettes on the Sidewalk" short story contest.
The New Dominion Book Club will meet to discuss Delia Owens’s novel Where the Crawdads Sing.
Join us for the next installment of the Charlottesville Reading Series, featuring Jason Gray and Bahlmann Abbot.
Join us for a reading with novelist Christopher Tilghman, who will read from his new novel, Thomas and Beal in the Midi.
Join us for a reading with poet Lauren Camp (Turquoise Door) and novelist Clifford Garstang (The Shaman of Turtle Valley).
Join us as we celebrate the release of Phil Williams’s book Turkey and America: East & West - Where the Twain Meet. A signing will follow.
Join us for Friday Night Writes, an evening of young writers performing their short stories, poetry, and music.
Join us for an evening with bestselling author Sonja Yoerg, who will read from her new novel, True Places.
The UVA Club of Charlottesville Book Club will meet to discuss Helen Simonson’s novel Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand.
Join us for an evening of poetry and photography, featuring Claire Millikin and Alice Bailey.
Join us for a celebration of Lynn Martin’s posthumous collection of poems, Shiver.
Join us for a reading with short story writer Michael Croley (Any Other Place) and biographer Charles J. Shields (The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams & Stoner).
Join us for First Fridays as we celebrate the art of Nina Thompson.
Join us as we celebrate National Independent Bookstore Day! Featuring activities for children and adults, guest booksellers, exclusive items, our annual party, and more.
Join us as we celebrate the release of Ahmed al-Rahim’s book The Creation of Philosophical Tradition. A signing will follow.
Join us and Shakespeare on the Lawn for a special performance of Much Ado About Nothing.
Join us as we celebrate the release of Ian Johnson’s book The Bounce and The Echo. A signing will follow.
The New Dominion Book Club will meet to discuss Nina LaCour’s young adult novel We Are Okay.
Join us for the next installment of the Charlottesville Reading Series, featuring Valencia Robin and Debra Nystrom.
Join us for the release of Stephen Nachmanovitch’s book The Art of Is. A signing will follow.
Join us for an evening with Francis Percival, who will share insights from his book Reinventing the Wheel, which explores organic and natural cheesemaking.
Join us as we celebrate the release of Ken Woodley’s book, The Road to Healing. A signing will follow.
Join us as we celebrate the release of Honorable Men, a posthumous collection of short stories by beloved UVA professor Sydney Blair.
Join us for a reading and Q&A with music critic and bestselling author Rob Sheffield.
The UVA Club of Charlottesville Book Club will meet to discuss Andy Weir’s science fiction novel Artemis.
Join us for the release of the third book in K. E. Lanning’s Melt Trilogy, Listen to the Birds. A signing will follow.
Join us at 7 PM on the first Friday of the month for Friday Night Writes, an evening of young writers performing their short stories, poetry, and music.
Join us for First Fridays as we celebrate the art of Marion Roberts.
Join us as we celebrate the release of Jane Alison's new book, Meander, Spiral, Explode.
The New Dominion Book Club will meet to discuss Chloe Benjamin's The Immortalists.
Join us as we celebrate the release of Jane S. Foy’s book, The A to Z Guide for Primary Caregivers of Dementia Patients. A signing will follow.
Belgian authors Kristien Hemmerechts and Annelies Verbeke discuss their latest novels.
Mitchell S. Jackson, José Olivarez, and Sarah Smarsh will share and discuss their deeply personal works of nonfiction and poetry.
Poets Francesca Bell, Lindsay Bernal, and Remica Bingham-Risher will read from their new collections.
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Karen Bender, and Chaya Bhuvaneswar will discuss their powerful collections of short stories.
Authors Cathryn Hankla and Marion Winik will read from their nonfiction books about journeys of leaving and wandering.
Maggie Anderson, Kevin Prufer, and Melissa Stein will read from their latest collections of poetry.
André Alexis (Days by Moonlight) and Alyson Hagy (Scribe) will discuss their lyrical novels.
Abigail DeWitt and Ed Pavlic will discuss their far-reaching fiction, featuring characters faced with global and personal turbulence.
Joelle Biele, Kyle Dargan, and DaMaris Hill will read from their latest collections of poetry.
Pam Dawling and co-authors Claudia Kousoulas and Ellen Letourneau will discuss their personal approaches to preserving, cultivating, and enjoying land responsibly in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Rebecca Morgan Frank, January Gill O’Neil, and Leona Sevick will read from their new collections of poetry.
Jarrett Krosoczka will give a solo reading as the second annual Carol Troxell Reader, sharing his personal story and artwork from his acclaimed new graphic memoir.