New This Week

Updates from Harvard Book Store

We're updating our hours this week! We will now be open on Sundays (11am to 6pm), for in-store shopping and curbside pickup. We are suspending shopping hours on Mondays for the time being, but curbside pickup will be available every day of the week (for your online and phone orders).

Updated Hours:

Open for Shopping: Tuesday–Sunday, 11AM–6PM
(Closed for Shopping on Mondays)
Curbside Pickup Hours: 9AM–6PM, Daily

Mark your calendars for this weekend: We'll be celebrating Independent Bookstore Day (virtually this year) and August 29–30 is the annual Massachusetts Tax Holiday Weekend. That means 6.25% more books for you!! The tax holiday extends to online purchases at harvard.com. No sales tax is due on purchase, even if delivery or pickup of the item occurs after the sales tax holiday weekend.

Tonight: Prejudential

TONIGHT: Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 7PM ET

Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome Margaret Kimberley—editor and senior columnist for Black Agenda Report—for a discussion of her book, Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents. She will be joined in conversation by celebrated writer, speaker, and theologian Reverend Irene Monroe. Prejudential is an exploration of America’s relationship with race and Black Americans through the lens of the presidents who have been elected to represent all of its people. Learn more and register here.

Can't watch tonight? Check out our video archive next week.

Featured New Releases

However you choose to shop, come browse our virtual "front tables" with this week's new arrivals, including the latest new releases in fiction, nonfiction, scholarly, new-to-paperback titles, and books for kids & young adults. For more browsing, check out our recent best sellers and explore our virtual events calendar. Thank you for supporting Harvard Book Store!

This week's new releases in fiction and poetry include Ali Smith's novel Summer (concluding "her seasonal quartet on a high note . . . It is the bravura performance of a writer, poised at the edge of the day’s vast darkness, gathering all the warmth and light of our inner summer"—The Washington Post); Dima Wannous's The Frightened Ones set in present-day Syria, Finalist for the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction; and poetry collection When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry.

New nonfiction this week includes Jon Meachem's highly anticipated biography of U.S. congressman John Lewis—His Truth Is Marching On; neuroscientist David Eagleman's delivering an "intellectually exhilarating look at neuroplasticity" (Publishers Weekly) with Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain; from Bill Hayes, author of the acclaimed Insomniac City, How We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic—a poignant and profound tribute in stories and images to a New York City amidst COVID-19; and Nikki Grimes' new nonfiction picture book for kids, Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice—"using poetic language and striking imagery, Grimes details the future senator’s life, from her beginnings to her presidential run in 2020" (School Library Journal).

And there's much more to explore in this week's New Arrivals.

Upcoming Virtual Events

NEXT WEEK: Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 7PM ET

Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes Debora L. Spar—the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author of Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection—for a discussion of her latest book, Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny. Learn more and register here.

More Upcoming Events

Celebrate Student Authors!

Read books by talented young writers on 8/26!

On Wednesday, August 26th, we're joining 826 Boston and local bookstores in celebrating 826 Day, featuring imaginative and expressive books written by student authors. Browse and purchase these titles here on harvard.com.

826 Boston is a nonprofit youth writing and publishing organization that empowers traditionally underserved students ages 6–18 to find their voices, tell their stories, and gain communication skills to succeed in school and in life. Learn more at 826boston.org.

Our Next Ticketed Event

Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 5PM ET

Harvard Book Store is thrilled to welcome beloved, award–winning author Margaret Atwood for the paperback release of her Booker Prize–winning follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments. She will be joined in conversation by Carmen Maria Machado, author of the widely acclaimed Her Body and Other Parties and In the Dream House: A Memoir.

Ticketing: All tickets include a paperback copy of The Testaments, signed by the author. Learn more and register here.