Virtual Event

Join bookseller Jessica and imagine the generosity of geese with a discussion of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer-  a book Jessica says "will save the world."

Books in Common NW is delighted to welcome writer and grammarian Geraldine Woods, in conversation with a special guest, to share her newest book 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way.

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Books in Common is delighted to welcome acclaimed horse trainer and writer Ginger Gaffney in conversation with the “Rodeo Queen of American Letters” Pam Houston, for a heartfelt conversation about Gaffney’s memoir Half Broke. At the start of this remarkable story of recovery, healing, and redemption, Ginger Gaffney answers a call to help retrain the troubled horses at an alternative prison ranch in New Mexico, a facility run entirely by the prisoners.

Books in Common is excited to welcome writer and cultural critics Jason Diamond and Andi Zeisler for a conversation about Diamond’s new book The Sprawl. For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative transcendence.

Bring your young readers along for a Books in Common adventure through middle grade fiction with Janet Fox and Rosanne Parry! Janet will be sharing the her new book in the Rookskill Castle universe - Artifact Hunters - about a young WWII refugee named Isaac on an Indian Jones style adventure through time to find all the artifacts needed to defeat a sinister and magical evil, before Hitler’s spies can stop him.

Join Senator Jon Tester for a discussion of his new book Grounded: A Senator's Lessons on Winning Back Rural America. An inspiring and eye-opening memoir showing how Democrats can reconnect with rural and red-state voters, from Montana’s three-term democratic senator.

Books in Common is excited to welcome bestselling author Jane Kirkpatrick to discuss her new book Something Worth Doing with fellow writer Greg Nokes. Tackling the early women's suffrage movement in Oregon, Abigail Scott denies herself the joys of a simpler life to achieve her dream of securing rights for women. But running a controversial newspaper and leading suffrage efforts in the Northwest carry a great personal cost. Based on a true story, Something Worth Doing is a tender, powerful story of a woman's conflicts--with society and herself.

Books in Common is delighted to welcome two prize-winning and transporting authors - Vanessa Veselka & Peter Geye - in conversation. Vanessa's newest book The Great Offshore Grounds is a wildly original, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and casts new light on the mythologies--national, individual, and collective--that drive and define us.