A Great Good Place for Books

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

Hours: Tues.-Sat. 10-6, Sun. 10-3, Mon. 11-3.

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Welcome to A Great Good Place for Books

Latest Staff Recommendations

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Staff Pick: The Family Remains

Staff Pick: Matrix

Staff Pick - Monsters of Templeton

The Whalebone Theatre - staff pick

staff pick the marriage portrait

Staff Pick - Bake

Staff Pick: Babel

Staff Pick: On The Rooftop

Staff Pick: The Bullet That Missed

Staff Pick: California Burning

Bad City Staff Pick

Chef's Kiss - staff pick

Love Radio Staff Pick

Staff Pick: THE DISPLACEMENTS by Author Bruce Holsinger

TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW by Gabrielle Zevin

Staff Pick: She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott

The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil

Afterparties: Stories By Anthony Veasna So; Cover Image By Anthony Veasna So

IN HER BOOTS, KJ Dell’Antonia

The Woman In the Library

Wrong Place Wrong Time Staff Pick

The Promise - staff pick

Nightcrawling - staff pick

This Time Tomorrow

Hollywood Park

Cover of SPY DAUGHTER, QUEER GIRL

Leslie Absher

Hilary Zaid

In Person Discussion & Book Signing With Author Leslie Absher in Conversation With Hilary Zaid

SPY DAUGHTER, QUEER GIRL: IN SEARCH OF TRUTH AND ACCEPTANCE IN A FAMILY OF SECRETS

Tuesday, October 11 @ 7 PM PT

At Montclair Presbyterian Church

5701 Thornhill Drive, Oakland, CA

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Cover of MATRIX

Lauren Groff

A meet and greet with author

Lauren Groff

2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winner

New Literary Project

MATRIX

Saturday, October 15 @ 5:30 PM PT

At GGP

6120 La Salle Avenue, Oakland, CA

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New in Hardcover

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Cover of Winners

Cover of Leech

Cover of Suspect

Cover of Verity

Cover of Let's Make History

Cover of Fen, Bog and Swamp

Cover of We Spread

Cover of Stay True

Cover of Shrines of Gaiety

Cover of Spells for Forgetting

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New in Paperback

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Cover of Cloud Cuckoo Land

Cover of Her Perfect Twin

Cover of One Dark Window

Cover of A Life on Our Planet

Cover of Believing

Cover of Solutions and Other Problems

CoverCOnquering the Pacific

Cover of Suburban hell

Cover of How To Be Lost

Cover of The Best Short Stories

Preorders

New Cookbooks - Available for Preorder

Smitten Kitchen Keepers

Ina Garten Go-To Dinners

Ottolenghi Test Kitchen

Chicano Bakes

Eveergreen Kitchen

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What's for Dessert

Kathleen's Recent Recommendations

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Staff Pick - Monsters of Templeton

IN HER BOOTS by KJ Dell’Antonia

Book Lovers

Year on Fire

Sister Stardust

This Time Tomorrow

Cover of Nora Goes Off Script

The Unsinkable Greta James cover

Yerba Buena

Samantha's Recent Recommendations

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The Displacements

The Promise

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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Afterparties

Cover of Bloodlands

Cover of Fight Night

Cover of Happy Go-Lucky

Cover of Running Out

Cover of The Family Outing

Cover of Rouges True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Cover of Oh William!

Cover of Lucy by the Sea

Beth's Recent Recommendations

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Staff Pick: The Family Remains

staff pick the marriage portrait

Horse by Geraldine Brooks

Take My Hand

Cover of The Love of My Life

Cover of I Must Betray You

Cover of The Guide

Zinna's Recent Recommendations

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Chef's Kiss - staff pick

Love Radio Staff Pick

Where the Crawdads Sing (Movie Tie-In)

She Gets the Girl

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

Gold Diggers

Written in the Stars

Love & Other Disasters

Donna's Recent Recommendations

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Elsewhere

The Palace Papers

Sea of Tranquility

Chouette

The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family

Mike's Recent Recommendations

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Staff Pick: Matrix

Staff Pick: Babel

Staff Pick: On The Rooftop

Staff Pick: California Burning

Bad City Staff Pick

Staff Pick: THE DISPLACEMENTS by Author Bruce Holsinger

TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW by Gabrielle Zevin

Cover of A Master of Djinn

Gen's Recent Recommendations

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Drawing of Genevieve

The Whalebone Theatre - staff pick

Staff Pick - Bake

Staff Pick: The Bullet That Missed

The Woman in the Library

Wrong Place Wrong Time staff pick

The Island

The It Girl

Chorus cover

Sarah's Recent Recommendations

Broken

Cover of The Swimmers

Cover of Crying In H Mart

Cover of Mary Jane

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