Browse Books: Literary Criticism / Books & Reading

Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future (Studies in Comics and Cartoons ) By Aaron Kashtan Cover Image
$37.44
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy By Deborah Parker, Mark Parker, Scott Mendel (Prepared by) Cover Image
$19.95
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature By Stacie Cassarino Cover Image
Sorry, Not Available through UPB
Out of Print
Novelist as a Vocation By Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (Translated by), Ted Goossen (Translated by) Cover Image
By Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (Translated by), Ted Goossen (Translated by)
$28.00
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films (Turner Classic Movies) By Kristen Lopez Cover Image
$20.00
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature By Sarah Hart Cover Image
$29.99
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
M Train By Patti Smith Cover Image
$18.00
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines By Thomas C. Foster Cover Image
$19.99
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers By Emma Smith Cover Image
$28.00
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
How to Read Now: Essays By Elaine Castillo Cover Image
$27.00
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
On Writing (and Writers): A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions By C. S. Lewis Cover Image
$23.99
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
A Left-Handed Woman: Essays By Judith Thurman Cover Image
$32.00
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days

Pages

eBooks & Audio Books

Click here to shop for audio book and eBooks

UPB open Tuesday through Friday 1PM - 6PM, Saturday Noon - 5pm

2430 Bancroft Way

The store known for serving pure brain food has returned to our old digs for a few months to sell down inventory and bid fare thee well to our decades of in-store customers.

Days and hours subject to change.

Note: This site lists what's available for special order from Ingram Content Group.
Visit our pages at Alibris or Biblio to survey in-store stock priced above $19.95.
Discount applies only to in-store purchases.

Cafe Ohlone

Once hosted by UPB, Cafe Ohlone now serves guests outside the Hearst Museum of Anthropology on the Cal campus.

Savor the foods which characterized east bay cuisine for thousands of years, before European contact. Brought to you by Mak'amham.

For information and to place reservations, see their web page at makamham.com/cafeohlone

Front facade of University Press Books

From 1974, University Press Books has stoked the blaze of well over ten thousand minds on fire, carrying new scholarship published by the great university presses in the English-speaking world.

Order from us. Shop us. Let well-wrought words churn and burn within.