Celebrating the power of words to stimulate, agitate, unite, delight, and inspire, the Boston Book Festival presents year-round events culminating in an annual festival that promotes a culture of reading and ideas and enhances the vibrancy of our city.
They’re creatives and change-makers, New York Times bestsellers, award winners, storytellers and social commentators… Get to know the headliners for BBF 2023.
Foul Heart Huntsman
Young Adult Keynote
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Non-Fiction Keynote
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods
Kids Keynote
The Diaspora Sonnets
Poetry Headliner
Ugly Music
Poetry Headliner
Justice by Means of Democracy
Elf Dog & Owl Head
The Blood Years
No Place Like Home
Secrets of the Sky #2: The Poison Waves
The International House of Dereliction
Such Kindness
The House of Doors
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
Stamped from the Beginning
The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery
Idea City: How to Make Boston More Livable, Equitable, and Resilient
The Woman Back from Moscow: In Pursuit of Beauty
The House of Eve
Happiness Falls: A Novel
The Leftover Woman
Wild Girls
Of Time And Turtles
The Lost Wife
I’m From
Trial
Leeva at Last
Tracy Flick Can’t Win
The Bell in the Fog
Somebody’s Fool
Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of Heart
The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
Introductory Essay to A Wild Promise: An Illustrated Celebration of the Endangered Species Act by Allen Crawford
The Iliad
Knowing What We Know
October 21, 2023 – Nubian Square
School Trip
Kids Headliner
Garvey’s Choice
Kids Headliner
Presenting Partner
