A Great Good Place for Books

A full service bookstore in the Montclair Village neighborhood of Oakland, California.

Hours: Tues. 10-3, W-Sat 10-6, Sun. 10-2. Closed Mondays.

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Welcome to A Great Good Place for Books

Latest Staff Recommendations

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This Time Tomorrow

Hollywood Park

Book Lovers

Broken (in the best possible way)

Gold Diggers

The Island

Take My Hand

The Verifiers

The Last Confessions of Sylvia P

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Cover of Liar's Dictionary

Wonderworks staff pick

Little Foxes

Running Out

New in Hardcover

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Cover of The Shore

Cover of The Colony

Cover of Avalon

Cover of You Make a Foll of Death with Your Beauty

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Cover of Who Killed Jane Stanford

Cover of A History of the World in 100 Animals

New in Paperback

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Cover of The Maidens

Cover of A Special Place for Women

Cover of Girlhood

Cover of Home Again

Cover of Our Last Days in Barcelona

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Cover of Chasing The Thrill

Cover of Eat A Peach

Cover of After The Fall

New Children's Books

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Cover of The First Cat in Space

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Preorders

Coming Soon - Available for Preorder

The It Girl

Nora Goes Off Script

Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

Battling the Big Lie

Kathleen's Recent Recommendations

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Book Lovers

Year on Fire

Sister Stardust

This Time Tomorrow

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The Unsinkable Greta James cover

Yerba Buena

Samantha's Recent Recommendations

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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

Trust

Wonderworks

Hollywood Park

The Liar's Dictionary

Amy's Recent Recommendations

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Little Foxes Took Up Matches

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Cover of Fight Night

Cover of The Return of Faraz Ali

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Beth's Recent Recommendations

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Take My Hand

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Cover of I Must Betray You

Cover of Wahala

All My Rage cover

Zinna's Recent Recommendations

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Gold Diggers

Written in the Stars

Love & Other Disasters

Darius the Great Is Not Okay

The Verifiers

Donna's Recent Recommendations

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Sea of Tranquility

Chouette

Notes on an Execution

The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family

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Molly

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Mike's Recent Recommendations

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The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.

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The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters

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Cover of the 9.9 Percent

Cover of Anthem

Gen's Recent Recommendations

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French Braid

The Island

The It Girl

Chorus cover

Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

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Sarah's Recent Recommendations

Broken

Cover of The Swimmers

Cover of Crying In H Mart

Cover of Mary Jane

Cookbooks!

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Sam the Cooking Guy

Horn Barbque

Ghosts of Ottolengh Test Kitchen

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Nina LaCour

In Person Author Event With Author Nina LaCour in conversation with Jandy Nelson

Yerba Buena

Thursday, June 9 @ 7 PM PDT

Montclair Presbyterian Church

5701 Thornhill Drive, Oakland, CA

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GGP Online Book Club on Zoom

THE MAGICIANS by Lev Grossman

Tuesday, June 14 @ 7 PM PDT

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Nora Goes Off Script

Lee Kravetz

Author Annabel Monaghan in conversation with Karen Dukess

Nora Goes Off Script

Thursday, June 16 @ 7 PM PT

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Online Author Chat With Author KJ Dell'Antonia in conversation with Nancy Davis Kho

In Her Boots

Thursday, July 7 @ 7 PM PDT

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Cover of THIS TIME TOMORROW

GGP Online Book Club on Zoom

THIS TIME TOMORROW by Emma Straub

Tuesday, July 12 @ 7 PM PDT

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Cover of DO THE WORK

Nina LaCour

In Person Book Signing With Authors W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz

DO THE WORK: AN ANTIRACIST ACTIVITY BOOK

Friday, July 22 @ 4 PM PDT

At GGP

6120 LaSalle Avenue, Oakland, CA

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