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Boston Book Festival 2023

Saturday, October 14

Copley Square

Celebrating 15 years

Stay tuned for details about headliners and the full program!

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.

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BBF 2022 Session Audio is Now Available!

Now Announcing Our 2022 Headliners

They’re creatives and change-makers, New York Times bestsellers award winners, storytellers and social commentators… Get to know our headliners for BBF 2022.

Patrick Radden Keefe

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Friday Kickoff Keynote

Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Nonfiction Keynote

Gish Jen

Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories

Fiction Keynote

Yiyun Li

The Book of Goose

Fiction Keynote

Malinda Lo

A Scatter of Light

YA Keynote

Tui T. Sutherland

The Flames of Hope (Wings of Fire #15)

Kids Keynote

B. B. Alston

Amari and the Great Game

Kids Keynote

View the Full 2022 Headliners & Presenters List

We’re welcoming 200 authors, moderators, and more as we return to Copley Square on Oct. 28 and 29! Get to know them at our 2022 Festival page.

View the Full List of BBF 2022 Headliners and Presenters

BBF 2022 Full Presenters List

Now live at our BBF 2022 Festival page: our full presenter list of 200 authors and moderators who will be joining us, across all genres: nonfiction, literary fiction, mystery, romance, comics, sci-fi/fantasy, poetry, YA, middle grade, chapter books, picture books, and more. Will your favorite author be there? Which new author will you discover?

Headliners & Presenters

#BBFBookHunt Returns

Our #BBFBookHunt returns in a few weeks! Each year we hide books by our Festival presenters around Boston and its surrounding neighborhoods, with clues on our social media pages. Will you be able to find them? More details on the date and hiding spots will be coming soon!

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BBF Prologue Oct. 22 – 27

Every great work need a prologue to set the stage, so join us for the BBF Prologue, a week of literary events around Boston in the week leading up to the Boston Book Festival on Oct. 28 and 29. You’ll get to hunt out books around town, win big in literary trivia, hear some great authors and storytelling, and more in neighborhoods around Boston.

BBF Prologue Week

Announcing our 2022 Shelf Help Winners

In 2017, we launched our Shelf Help partnership program, where two Boston-area school libraries to receive brand-new, high-quality, and culturally relevant books to fill their shelves and a memorable school visit by a celebrated children’s or YA author or illustrator. This year, we’re pleased to announce our 2022 recipients: UP Academy Holland and Malden High School. Learn more and donate to fill the libraries at the link.

Shelf Help School Partnership

Donate Today

Our annual Festival is free to attend—but we rely on donors at every level to ensure that it is. Donations keep our literary programing in the city of Boston going strong, like our annual Festival, our Shelf Help School Partnership program, Lit Crawl Boston, and other valuable initiatives. Visit our Donate page to learn more, and to start supporting the Boston Book Festival—and literacy and literary endeavors in your community—today.

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Copley Street Fair

Applications Now Open for Exhibitors

We’re returning to Copley Square on Saturday, October 29, 2022 — which means that the lively street fest returns with us. Will you be there? Applications are now open for 2022 exhibitors.

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BBF 2021 Virtual Sessions

Catch up on our 2021 virtual sessions before the return to Copley Square this October. Over two dozens sessions for kids, fiction and non-fiction fans, middle grade and YA readers, and more are available on our Crowdcast channel.

BBF Crowdcast Channel

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Bestseller Sponsors 2022

Starred Review Sponsor 2022

Debut Sponsors 2022

Programming Sponsors 2022

Media Sponsors 2022

Marketing Partners 2022

Hotel Sponsor 2022

In-Kind Sponsors 2022

Nonprofit Partners 2022

826 Boston

ArtsBoston

Boston Athenaeum

Boston By Foot

Boston Public Library

Cambridge Public Library

GrubStreet

Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo

Mass Poetry

The Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events

Wondermore

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