Independent Book Store Day at City Books

Independent Bookstore Day is April 28th, 11:00 am-5:00 pm City Books will be open extended hours from 11:00 am – 5:00 pm with authors, pop-up vendors and special sale items. We will then reopen at 7:00 pm for an evening event in celebration of community...

Saturday Night at City Books: Doug Rice

Please join us on Saturday, March 17th at 7:00 pm when City Books welcomes Doug Rice back home to the Northside. A book signing will follow the reading. Limited seating. Doug Rice is the author of Here Lies Memory, the first book of a Pittsburgh trilogy. Born in...

Christmas Story Hour at City Books

Happy Holidays from City Books Before the store closes for the Christmas Eve/Christmas Day break, join City Books for an hour of holiday literature, including local playwright and storyteller T. Scott Frank reading Clement Clarke Moore’s The Night Before...

Funny Ladies: Shannon Reed & Friends

Saturday, October 21 7:00-9:00 pm Please join City Books as we welcome Rachel Mabe, Rachel Brickner, Jennifer Bannan, and Shannon Reed, four Pittsburgh-based writers with some serious writing credits in McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Review, The...

Diana Nelson Jones @ City Books

You are invited to join us on Saturday night (September 23rd) when City Books holds the local launch of The Love of Baseball, a new collection of essays edited by Post-Gazette writer (and Northsider!) Diana Nelson Jones. Written by and for baseball fans (or those...