A Great Good Place for Books

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

Hours: Tues.-Sat. 10-6, Sun. 10-4. Closed Mondays.

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Latest Staff Recommendations

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The Promise - staff pick

Nightcrawling - staff pick

This Time Tomorrow

Hollywood Park

Book Lovers

Broken (in the best possible way)

Gold Diggers

The Island

Take My Hand

The Verifiers

Cover of The Loveof My Life

Cover of Liar's Dictionary

Wonderworks staff pick

Little Foxes

Running Out

New in Hardcover

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Cover of Dele Weds Destiny

Cover of Thrust

Cover of LOne of the Girls

Cover of Lies I Tell

Cover of Elsewhere

Cover of Rouges

Cover of Ways of Being

Cover of Why We Did It

Cover of Tree Thieves

Cover of An Immense World

New in Paperback

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Cover of Hell of a Book

Cover of Songs in Urse Major

Cover of She Who Became the Sun

Cover of State of Terror

Cover of The People We Keep

Cover of Maps of Spectacular Bodies

Cover of Little Sister

Cover of Clark and Division

Cover of Please Don't Sit on My Bed inYour Outside Clothes

Cover of Wake The hidden History of Women Led Slave Revolts

Summer Reading Recommendations for Children!

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Cover of The Queen in the Cave

Cover of The Beatryce Prophecy

Cover of The First Cat in Space

Cover of Those Kids From Fawn Creek

Cover of My Own Lightning

Kathleen's Recent Recommendations

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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 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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Little Foxes Took Up Matches

Cover of Bloodlands

Cover of Fight Night

Cover of Nightcrawling

Cover of Running Out

Beth's Recent Recommendations

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Take My Hand

Cover of The Love of My Life

Cover of I Must Betray You

Cover of The Guide

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

Mike's Recent Recommendations

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The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.

Cover of The Emergency

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

Cover of A Master of Djinn

Cover of the 9.9 Percent

Cover of Anthem

Gen's Recent Recommendations

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Drawing of Genevieve

Wrong Place Wrong Time staff pick

French Braid

The Island

The It Girl

Chorus cover

Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

Cover of Love & Saffron

Sarah's Recent Recommendations

Broken

Cover of The Swimmers

Cover of Crying In H Mart

Cover of Mary Jane

Cookbooks!

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Cover of My America Recipes from a Young Black Chef

That Noodle Life

Horn Barbque

Ghosts of Eitan Eats The World

Cover of IN HER BOOTS

Photo of KJ Dell'Antonia

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

Thursday, July 21 @ 4 PM PDT

At GGP

6120 LaSalle Avenue, Oakland, CA

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