UPCOMING
AUTHOR EVENTS
Book Signing & Presentation with David Smart
Location: Capital Books When: Saturday, September 23, 2pm
Join Cindy for some inspiration and a laugh or two
Location: Capital Books When: Sunday, October 8, 2 pm
Book Signing & Discussion with Rev Liên Shutt
Location: Capital Books When: Saturday, October 21, 3pm
Book Launch with Sacramento Author Shelley Blanton-Stroud
Location: Rossi Sculptural Design, 1801 Twentieth Street, Sacramento When: Tuesday, November 14, 5pm
NEW & NOTEWORTHY
BOOKS THAT SHOULD BE ON YOUR RADAR
IF WE’VE RUN OUT A BOOK, PLEASE PLACE AN ORDER FOR YOUR COPY, AND IT’LL ARRIVE IN A COUPLE OF DAYS.
One Italian Summer
CAPITAL BOOKS BESTSELLER! New York Times bestselling author Bebecca Serle of In Five Years returns with a powerful novel about the transformational love between mothers and daughters set on the breathtaking Amalfi Coast.
Winter's Orbit
CAPITAL BOOKS BESTSELLER! Like Ancillary Justice meets Red, White and Royal Blue, Winter’s Orbit is perfect for fans of Lois McMaster Bujold.
Gideon the Ninth
CAPITAL BOOKS BESTSELLER! Space opera sci-fi featuring a lesbian necromancer. What more could you need?
One Last Stop
CAPITAL BOOKS BESTSELLER! Part romance, part fantasy, this gorgeous novel is about meeting someone on your daily commute.
Forget Me Not
CAPITAL BOOKS BESTSELLER! Local Sacramento author, Julie Soto’s debut novel is based in Sacramento. This has quickly become a bestseller for us. Be sure to come for Julie’s book-signing event.
What Moves the Dead
CAPITAL BOOKS BESTSELLER! A gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” from Hugo, Locus, & Nebula award-winning author T. Kingfisher
Tender is the Flesh
CAPITAL BOOKS BESTSELLER! “From the first words of the Argentine novelist Agustina Bazterrica’s second novel, Tender Is the Flesh, the reader is already the livestock in the line, reeling, primordially aware that this book is a butcher’s block, and nothing that happens next is going to be pretty.”
—New York Times Book Review
Throne of Glass
CAPITAL BOOKS BESTSELLER! The first of Mass’ three series, Throne of Glass is still a fan-favorite and bestselling series.
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
STAFF PICKS!
The Lost Metal
I am in awe of the explosive, stunning conclusion to Wax and Wayne’s story and the Mistborn Saga as a whole! This is an amazing weave of multiverse world-building and incredible character development. If you haven’t already, I highly recommend reading the entire Mistborn Saga (including Mistborn: Secret History) before delving into this final installment. —Taylor
Bread Illustrated by America's Test Kitchen
“I have made breads from so many cookbooks, and I keep going back to this book. The recipes never fail me.” —Heidi
A Conjuring of Light
“With Schwab, you never know what twist to expect, and I love how the characters surprise me and stay with me long after finishing the book. This book was magical, emotional, anxiety-inducing, and it made me cry and feel pain (but I didn’t mind).” —Taylor
Dune
“Dune is one of the classic sci-fi books I grew up on, and I’ve watched every movie adaption, but I keep going back to the book. This is a really great version with the dust jacket and blue-stained pages.” —Ross
The Sandman
“One of the best all-around books, if not graphic novels, ever published.” —Ross
Norwegian Wood
“The story of Toru Watanabe, falling into a quiet love with his dead best friend’s girlfriend, Naoko. This coming of age is both a somber gut-punch and a gorgeous life affirmation. It’s everything I love about translated Japanese literary fiction and I try to read it once a year.” —Sam
Hamnet
“You need no familiarity or appreciation for the works of Shakespeare to be wholly and completely absorbed by this speculative fiction surrounding the family he left behind to become the man we know today. This book is one of the most beautifully written pieces of fiction I’ve had the pleasure of reading, and I am envious of anyone who has the chance to read it for the first time.” —Sam
FALL RELEASES FOR PRE-ORDERS
POPULAR BOOKS COMING DOWN THE PIKE
PLACE YOUR ORDER, AND WE’LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN THE BOOK ARRIVES.
Herc
Pub Date: Sept 5
Told with humour and heart, Herc gives voice to the silenced characters, in this feminist, queer (and sometimes shocking) retelling of classic Hercules myth, perfect for fans of Madeline Miller and Joanne M. Harris.
The Last Devil to Die
Pub Date: Sept 19
A new mystery is afoot in the fourth book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman.
Bone: More Tall Tales
Pub Date: Sept 5
Jeff Smith’s bestselling, award-winning BONE saga returns with this hilarious sequel to Tall Tales!
The Vaster Wilds
Pub Date: Sept 12
Jeff Smith’s bestselling, award-winning BONE saga returns with this hilarious sequel to Tall Tales!
Holly
Pub Date: Sept 5
Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Pub Date: Sept 26
The original heroes from The Lightning Thief are reunited for their biggest challenge yet: getting Percy to college when the gods are standing in his way.
Let Us Descend
Pub Date: Oct 24
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.
Starling House
Pub Date: Oct 3
A gorgeously modern gothic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of TEN THOUSAND DOORS OF JANUARY.
Big Heart Little Stove: Bringing Home Meals & Moments from The Lost Kitchen
Pub Date: Oct 31
The inspiration behind our cafe, There and Back. From the author of one of Heidi’s favorite shows, The Lost Kitchen.
HEIDI’S FAVORITE CATEGORY
2023 JAMES BEARD COOKBOOK WINNERS
Mi Cocina
Won the award highlighting books with recipes focused on food or cooking traditions of countries, regions, or communities outside of the United States. Penned by the host of the Babish Culinary Universe show “Pruébalo” on YouTube, this book could also double as the author’s love letter to Mexico’s culinary traditions.
Tava
To be considered for the baking and dessert category, the cookbooks needed to offer more than sweet treats. They needed “recipes focused on the art and craft of baking pastries and desserts, both sweet and savory items, including ingredients, techniques, equipment, and traditions. This cookbook is the 2023 winner.
The Vegan Chinese Kitchen
When it comes to books that showcase vegetable-based, vegetarian, or vegan recipes, look no further than this year’s winner. From Blistered Dry-Fried String Beans or Sweet and Sour Tofu, Che will show you the way to cook Chinese fare with veganism top of mind.
The Perfect Loaf
From pan loaves to pizza and even doughnuts, consider this winning book your new go-to for baking sourdough bread. Author Marizio Leo’s website, The Perfect Loaf, has won multiple awards.
Bludso's BBQ Cookbook
Focused on works by restaurant chefs and other food-world professionals. Bludso, a Los Angeles-based restaurateur, tells his story with the help of 75 recipes and “low and slow Texas BBQ done right” attitude.
The Bartender's Manifesto
If you’ve ever taken pleasure in sipping a Maloney’s Juliet and Romeo cocktail at Chicago’s The Violet Hour, you can expect to raise the bar for your own mixology skills with this book at your fingertips.
Exploring the World of Craft Japanese Sake
With more than 300 gorgeous photos, this year’s winning book not only includes family recipes from Japanese sake-brewing families but also takes a closer look at the science and history behind sake brewing.
Eating While Black
The author examines the ways economics, the media, nutrition science, and even public policy relate to racism against Black people in the food sphere.
The Cook You Want to Be
Andy Baraghani’s main goal in this work is to help readers develop their own personal style of cooking. He started his career as an intern years ago at Chez Panisse and went on to develop recipes. He also served as a food editor for Tasting Table.
The Wok: Recipes and Techniques
Turn to The Wok for your most comprehensive guide to this most important tool in Japanese cuisine.
Chinese-ish
Chinese-ish melds identity and culture, the duo takes a look at Chinese food with inspiration that may not be the real deal, but oh so good.
