Vroman's Bookstore
@vromansbookstore.bsky.social
California's oldest independent bookstore since 1894, Vroman's Bookstore is your one stop shop for books, magazines, gifts, and more!
We host several events weekly. Hope to see you soon! : https://vromansbookstore.com/events/calendar
We host several events weekly. Hope to see you soon! : https://vromansbookstore.com/events/calendar
"When you walk into a bookstore, you're walking into the future of your cultural and intellectual life. Booksellers show you a way forward towards more of yourself, a way you might not have known existed for you--but is still entirely your own. They are mapmakers of possibility."
- Ocean Vuong
- Ocean Vuong
November 23, 2025 at 4:54 AM
"When you walk into a bookstore, you're walking into the future of your cultural and intellectual life. Booksellers show you a way forward towards more of yourself, a way you might not have known existed for you--but is still entirely your own. They are mapmakers of possibility."
- Ocean Vuong
- Ocean Vuong
Palestinian author and activist Tareq Barconi discusses his new memoir FIRE IN EVERY DIRECTION, a love-story/coming-of-age tale that balances humor and loss, nostalgia and hope, as it takes us from the Middle East to London, and from 1948 to the present. In conversation with inimitable Robin Kelley.
November 22, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Palestinian author and activist Tareq Barconi discusses his new memoir FIRE IN EVERY DIRECTION, a love-story/coming-of-age tale that balances humor and loss, nostalgia and hope, as it takes us from the Middle East to London, and from 1948 to the present. In conversation with inimitable Robin Kelley.
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ON SALE NOW! The revised and updated edition of Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas, available wherever you buy books. #filmsky #booksky 📽 📚 preorder-movie-little-christmas.carrd.co
September 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
ON SALE NOW! The revised and updated edition of Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas, available wherever you buy books. #filmsky #booksky 📽 📚 preorder-movie-little-christmas.carrd.co
Congrats, 2025 National Book Award winners! for Fiction: Rabih Alameddine, for Nonfiction: Omar El Akkad, for Poetry: Patricia Smith, for Translated Literature:Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, for Young People's Literature: Daniel Nayeri
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November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Congrats, 2025 National Book Award winners! for Fiction: Rabih Alameddine, for Nonfiction: Omar El Akkad, for Poetry: Patricia Smith, for Translated Literature:Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, for Young People's Literature: Daniel Nayeri
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Professor Jerry Moore stopped by the store tonight to present his newest book--CAT TALES: A History of the improbable and yet incredible and improbable history of our relationship with cats from fearsome foe to purring "pet" (though are cats reeeeeally pets?).
vromansbookstore.com/book/9780500...
vromansbookstore.com/book/9780500...
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Professor Jerry Moore stopped by the store tonight to present his newest book--CAT TALES: A History of the improbable and yet incredible and improbable history of our relationship with cats from fearsome foe to purring "pet" (though are cats reeeeeally pets?).
vromansbookstore.com/book/9780500...
vromansbookstore.com/book/9780500...
We had Chef Pyet DeSpain--1st ever winner of Gordon Ramsay's NEXT LEVEL CHEF--in convo with Dr. Claudia Serrato at Vroman's last night food, discussing food, family, history, and life--and Pyet's new book, ROOTED IN FIRE.
Rooted in Fire is available now: vromansbookstore.com/book/9780063...
Rooted in Fire is available now: vromansbookstore.com/book/9780063...
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
We had Chef Pyet DeSpain--1st ever winner of Gordon Ramsay's NEXT LEVEL CHEF--in convo with Dr. Claudia Serrato at Vroman's last night food, discussing food, family, history, and life--and Pyet's new book, ROOTED IN FIRE.
Rooted in Fire is available now: vromansbookstore.com/book/9780063...
Rooted in Fire is available now: vromansbookstore.com/book/9780063...
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Happy to share that Vroman’s is hosting the launch for The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging. I’ll be joined by author @rothschildmd.bsky.social, a leading expert on conspiracy movements.
If you’re in the area, we’d love to see you: vromansbookstore.com/event/2026-0...
If you’re in the area, we’d love to see you: vromansbookstore.com/event/2026-0...
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Happy to share that Vroman’s is hosting the launch for The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging. I’ll be joined by author @rothschildmd.bsky.social, a leading expert on conspiracy movements.
If you’re in the area, we’d love to see you: vromansbookstore.com/event/2026-0...
If you’re in the area, we’d love to see you: vromansbookstore.com/event/2026-0...
This Sunday at 2:00PM, Vroman's Local Author day presents:
Pamela Nickel Williams' memoir, CLEARLY LIES ARE TRUE
Donna R. Phillips's story collection, AMONG THE REEDS & OTHER STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL
vromansbookstore.com/event/2025-1...
Pamela Nickel Williams' memoir, CLEARLY LIES ARE TRUE
Donna R. Phillips's story collection, AMONG THE REEDS & OTHER STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL
vromansbookstore.com/event/2025-1...
November 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This Sunday at 2:00PM, Vroman's Local Author day presents:
Pamela Nickel Williams' memoir, CLEARLY LIES ARE TRUE
Donna R. Phillips's story collection, AMONG THE REEDS & OTHER STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL
vromansbookstore.com/event/2025-1...
Pamela Nickel Williams' memoir, CLEARLY LIES ARE TRUE
Donna R. Phillips's story collection, AMONG THE REEDS & OTHER STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL
vromansbookstore.com/event/2025-1...
From self-taught & award-winning director Morgan Stevenson Cooper comes I CAN MAKE A MOVIE! a heartfelt story about a girl on a mission to make her first movie--and lift her grandpa's spirits along the way. Join Morgan (w. Azie Tesfai) Saturday morning as he reads and signs his new picture book!
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
From self-taught & award-winning director Morgan Stevenson Cooper comes I CAN MAKE A MOVIE! a heartfelt story about a girl on a mission to make her first movie--and lift her grandpa's spirits along the way. Join Morgan (w. Azie Tesfai) Saturday morning as he reads and signs his new picture book!
A love story and a coming-of-age tale, Tareq Baconi's FIRE IN EVERY DIRECTION spans countries and continents, balances humor and loss, nostalgia and hope, taking us from the Middle East to London, from 1948 to the present. Tareq discusses and signs his memoire this Friday (with Robin DG Kelley)!
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A love story and a coming-of-age tale, Tareq Baconi's FIRE IN EVERY DIRECTION spans countries and continents, balances humor and loss, nostalgia and hope, taking us from the Middle East to London, from 1948 to the present. Tareq discusses and signs his memoire this Friday (with Robin DG Kelley)!
A "big-hearted and true" debut novel, Brian Schaefer's TOWN & COUNTRY is set amid a small town's congressional race that forces the candidates, their families, and a clique of gay second homeowners to confront lies, betrayals and shifting allegiances--Brian and Marc Malkin discuss this Thursday!
November 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A "big-hearted and true" debut novel, Brian Schaefer's TOWN & COUNTRY is set amid a small town's congressional race that forces the candidates, their families, and a clique of gay second homeowners to confront lies, betrayals and shifting allegiances--Brian and Marc Malkin discuss this Thursday!
Join us this Wednesday at 7PM as anthropologist Jerry Moore charts the cat's path from deadly enemy to improbable roommate. Illustrated throughout, CAT TALES: A HISTORY surveys our relationships with cats from the Paleolithic to the present.
vromansbookstore.com/event/2025-1...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Join us this Wednesday at 7PM as anthropologist Jerry Moore charts the cat's path from deadly enemy to improbable roommate. Illustrated throughout, CAT TALES: A HISTORY surveys our relationships with cats from the Paleolithic to the present.
vromansbookstore.com/event/2025-1...
vromansbookstore.com/event/2025-1...
Star chef Pyet DeSpain--first winner of Gordon Ramsey's Next Level Chef--shares her burning passion for Native American and Mexican American cuisine in "Rooted in Fire: A Celebration of Native American and Mexican Cooking"
Join us this Tuesday as Pyet and Dr. Claudia Serrato discuss Rooted in Fire!
Join us this Tuesday as Pyet and Dr. Claudia Serrato discuss Rooted in Fire!
November 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Star chef Pyet DeSpain--first winner of Gordon Ramsey's Next Level Chef--shares her burning passion for Native American and Mexican American cuisine in "Rooted in Fire: A Celebration of Native American and Mexican Cooking"
Join us this Tuesday as Pyet and Dr. Claudia Serrato discuss Rooted in Fire!
Join us this Tuesday as Pyet and Dr. Claudia Serrato discuss Rooted in Fire!
Harshini Vankineni reading her debut picture book--What Color is the Baby? : A Celebration of Skin Tones--at Vroman's.
"A sweet feel-good story that asks us to look beyond color to see the beauty in everyone."
—Kirkus Reviews
"A sweet feel-good story that asks us to look beyond color to see the beauty in everyone."
—Kirkus Reviews
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Harshini Vankineni reading her debut picture book--What Color is the Baby? : A Celebration of Skin Tones--at Vroman's.
"A sweet feel-good story that asks us to look beyond color to see the beauty in everyone."
—Kirkus Reviews
"A sweet feel-good story that asks us to look beyond color to see the beauty in everyone."
—Kirkus Reviews
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You’re Invited to Another Southern California Type-In!
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November 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
You’re Invited to Another Southern California Type-In!
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(Clears throat daintily, stares upwards)
THIS IS AN ABSOLUTELY CHARMING BOOK!
YOU SHOULD GET IT!
(If you’re in LA, get it at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social)
THIS IS AN ABSOLUTELY CHARMING BOOK!
YOU SHOULD GET IT!
(If you’re in LA, get it at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social)
Cover reveal for my next book, due out from Bancroft Press in October 2026! Huge thanks to illustrator Nikki Attree for the drawing and Christine Van Bree for cover design! See more of Nikki's drawings here: nikkiattree.net
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
(Clears throat daintily, stares upwards)
THIS IS AN ABSOLUTELY CHARMING BOOK!
YOU SHOULD GET IT!
(If you’re in LA, get it at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social)
THIS IS AN ABSOLUTELY CHARMING BOOK!
YOU SHOULD GET IT!
(If you’re in LA, get it at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social)
New York Times bestselling authors Tigest Girma and Jordan Ifueko at Vroman's discussing Tigest's new novel ETERNAL RUIN & talking about inspiration and representation in literature today.
Signed copies of "Eternal Ruin" (book two of the "Immortal Dark" Trilogy) available while supplies last!
Signed copies of "Eternal Ruin" (book two of the "Immortal Dark" Trilogy) available while supplies last!
November 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
New York Times bestselling authors Tigest Girma and Jordan Ifueko at Vroman's discussing Tigest's new novel ETERNAL RUIN & talking about inspiration and representation in literature today.
Signed copies of "Eternal Ruin" (book two of the "Immortal Dark" Trilogy) available while supplies last!
Signed copies of "Eternal Ruin" (book two of the "Immortal Dark" Trilogy) available while supplies last!
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Just visited Vroman's Bookstore in beautiful Pasadena and found this #Frankenstein endcap that includes my novel, Chicano Frankenstein (Forest Avenue Press). It's in horrifyingly wonderful company. #horror #scifi
November 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Just visited Vroman's Bookstore in beautiful Pasadena and found this #Frankenstein endcap that includes my novel, Chicano Frankenstein (Forest Avenue Press). It's in horrifyingly wonderful company. #horror #scifi
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Had time to kill in the area w/daughter, so stopped by Vroman's. She got a kick out of seeing the collection. Also recognized the BASFF 25. When I was a kid, I met a guy who wrote a book and thought it was cool people could just do that, maybe I could. Hope that's what she/her siblings think too.
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Had time to kill in the area w/daughter, so stopped by Vroman's. She got a kick out of seeing the collection. Also recognized the BASFF 25. When I was a kid, I met a guy who wrote a book and thought it was cool people could just do that, maybe I could. Hope that's what she/her siblings think too.
Vroman's own Pete Hsu selling books for the iconic Tom Johnson, former CEO of @cnn.com and @latimes.com Tom's memoir, DRIVEN, details his "inside the room" experiences with LBJ and his role in the formation of the 24-hour news cycle. We sold out of books at the event, but more on the way!
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Vroman's own Pete Hsu selling books for the iconic Tom Johnson, former CEO of @cnn.com and @latimes.com Tom's memoir, DRIVEN, details his "inside the room" experiences with LBJ and his role in the formation of the 24-hour news cycle. We sold out of books at the event, but more on the way!
Three-time New York Times bestselling poet Kate Baer will read from and sign her latest collection, “How About Now: Poems,” at Vroman’s, Friday, Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. In conversation with poet and performer Arielle Estoria.
Tickets available on Eventbrite:
www.eventbrite.com/e/kate-baer-...
Tickets available on Eventbrite:
www.eventbrite.com/e/kate-baer-...
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Three-time New York Times bestselling poet Kate Baer will read from and sign her latest collection, “How About Now: Poems,” at Vroman’s, Friday, Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. In conversation with poet and performer Arielle Estoria.
Tickets available on Eventbrite:
www.eventbrite.com/e/kate-baer-...
Tickets available on Eventbrite:
www.eventbrite.com/e/kate-baer-...
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Good morning, Los Angeles! Hope you might join me at 7 this evening at the great @vromansbookstore.bsky.social in Pasadena to talk ANTIDEMOCRATIC, gerrymandering, the Supreme Court. Also, why do I live on the east coast and not here? www.eventbrite.com/e/david-dale...
David Daley discusses & signs Antidemocratic
The author and journalist presents his new book Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections
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November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Good morning, Los Angeles! Hope you might join me at 7 this evening at the great @vromansbookstore.bsky.social in Pasadena to talk ANTIDEMOCRATIC, gerrymandering, the Supreme Court. Also, why do I live on the east coast and not here? www.eventbrite.com/e/david-dale...
This week at Vroman's
• THU 7PM David Daley--ANTIDEMOCRATIC
• FRI 7PM: Meher McArthur--A Japanese Art Journey
• SAT 11AM: Erica Lee Schlaikjer--Sky Luck
• SAT 3PM: Tigest Girma--Eternal Ruin (Ticketed Event In-Store)
• THU 7PM David Daley--ANTIDEMOCRATIC
• FRI 7PM: Meher McArthur--A Japanese Art Journey
• SAT 11AM: Erica Lee Schlaikjer--Sky Luck
• SAT 3PM: Tigest Girma--Eternal Ruin (Ticketed Event In-Store)
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This week at Vroman's
• THU 7PM David Daley--ANTIDEMOCRATIC
• FRI 7PM: Meher McArthur--A Japanese Art Journey
• SAT 11AM: Erica Lee Schlaikjer--Sky Luck
• SAT 3PM: Tigest Girma--Eternal Ruin (Ticketed Event In-Store)
• THU 7PM David Daley--ANTIDEMOCRATIC
• FRI 7PM: Meher McArthur--A Japanese Art Journey
• SAT 11AM: Erica Lee Schlaikjer--Sky Luck
• SAT 3PM: Tigest Girma--Eternal Ruin (Ticketed Event In-Store)
This week at Vroman's:
TUE 7pm: Julia Ioffe--Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
WED 11Am: Aria Mia Loberti--IAm Ingrid: The Adventures of the World's Greatest Guide Dog
WED 7PM: Xavier X Atencio: The Legacy of an Artist, Imagineer, and Disney Legend
TUE 7pm: Julia Ioffe--Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
WED 11Am: Aria Mia Loberti--IAm Ingrid: The Adventures of the World's Greatest Guide Dog
WED 7PM: Xavier X Atencio: The Legacy of an Artist, Imagineer, and Disney Legend
November 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This week at Vroman's:
TUE 7pm: Julia Ioffe--Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
WED 11Am: Aria Mia Loberti--IAm Ingrid: The Adventures of the World's Greatest Guide Dog
WED 7PM: Xavier X Atencio: The Legacy of an Artist, Imagineer, and Disney Legend
TUE 7pm: Julia Ioffe--Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
WED 11Am: Aria Mia Loberti--IAm Ingrid: The Adventures of the World's Greatest Guide Dog
WED 7PM: Xavier X Atencio: The Legacy of an Artist, Imagineer, and Disney Legend
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“do you want to go to the bookstore?” is a love language
November 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“do you want to go to the bookstore?” is a love language