The Booksmith is San Francisco's leading independent bookstore. We feature a wide selection of general interest books, an exciting selection of signed books, and the Bay Area's most exciting author events program.

At The Booksmith, you're sure to find just what you've been looking for!

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1644 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
Tel: 415-863-8688
Fax: 415-863-2540
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Welcome to The Booksmith!

Some people think there is no role for independent bookstores in the age of Amazon and big box retailers. We think they're wrong.

As an independent bookstore, bringing attention to local authors and independent publishers is important to us. We focus on giving our customers a better and more authentic literary experience.



The Booksmith Holiday Catalog Read more...
Bringing attention to local authors and independent publishers is important to us.We've spent months selecting 70 out of 200,000 new books published this year for inclusion in this catalog. The result is a carefully curated selection spanning a range of reading interests and prices.

Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger
by Poletti, Therese, Paiva, Tom
Lavishly illustrated compendium of local architecture. **AUTHOR SIGNED/COLLECTIBLE**
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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.

2666 2666
by Bolano, Roberto, Wimmer, Natasha
2666 is the culmination of Roberto Bolano's expansive brilliance, as traces of such previous works as The Savage Detectives have been perfected and fused together seemlessly as part of a larger whole. This is a daring book that takes major risks throughout, and its overall impact is impossible to ignore or ever forget.--Nathan Halter, The Doylestown Bookshop (Doylestown, PA)
Booksmith Author Events Read more...
For information about Booksmith Author events, please visit our listings page at http://www.booksmith.com/events.html. To order a signed book, please call us at 800-493-7323 Tues - Fri 10 - 5. We keep our signed inventory separate and you cannot order signed books online!

About The Booksmith
The Booksmith has been in business since 1976. The Booksmith is a member of both the American Bookseller's Association and the Booksense Network, as well as the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association. In 1998, we were named "Best store for new books" in San Francisco by the SF Weekly. In 1999, Time magazine selected us "the independent bookstore to shop at online."
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Quote of the Day
"True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics."

- Yevgeny Zamyatin
A Soviet Heretic
From The Quotable Book Lover (Lyons Press)
Author Birthday
Francois-Marie de Voltaire was born today in 1694.