Dear friends and fans of Greenlight,

We've got a slate of exciting events this week with Gina Schock, Anita Hill, and Craig Davidson all happening tonight, plus even more exciting talents gracing our virtual stage and our partners' stages in November! Holiday shopping on your mind (October is the new December, after all)? A subscription to our signed First Editions Club makes a wonderful gift for the avid reader in your life! Read on for our November and December FEC selections, as well as today's new releases, more of this week's events for kids and adults, and a look ahead at November events!

Our November lineup of events is phenomenally stacked, with the likes of Will Smith, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Wendy Xu and more gracing offsite partners' stages and our virtual stage alike! Registration is open now; we hope you'll join us!

Book Launch: The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

Our Just for Kids page at greenlightbookstore.com is a great resource for finding new and exciting books for readers of all ages, curated by our knowledgeable booksellers. Explore what's new for young readers!

Greenlight's First Editions Club selection for November is Tiphanie Yanique's Monster in the Middle!

“A total wonder. Utterly original and structurally thrilling. I am in awe of this novel and Tiphanie Yanique’s masterful storytelling. This feels like a modern fable, a contemporary folk ballad full of unforgettable characters who, by the end, felt as familiar to me as family. What a gorgeous ode to love and its power.”

— Brandon Taylor, author of Filthy Animals and Real Life

Greenlight's First Editions Club selection for December is Uwem Akpan's New York, My Village!

"A dizzying and fearless tour of New York's street culture, coffee, food, apartment life and publishing world, interleaved with memorials of war crimes and tense depictions of the human cost of trauma. Uwem Akpan has mastered the art of laugh-out-loud satire, but he leaves room for tears."

— Louise Erdrich, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Night Watchman

Greenlight Bookstore's First Editions Club is a subscription service offering one newly published literary work each month, in a collectible first edition signed by the author. Greenlight offers an ongoing subscription or a six-month gift subscription—a magnificent gift for any booklover, or for yourself!