Okay bookworms, we’ve got good news.
The author lineup for this year’s Texas Book Festival was just announced, and it’s stacked with excellent writers in adult fiction, romance, essays, cookbooks, and more.
Authors to note
More than 300 local, national, and international authors will share their work and insights at this year’s fest. Here are just a handful of notable names, broken down by genre:
Local authors
- Chandler Baker | “Cutting Teeth” + “The Husbands”
- Edward Carey | “Little” + “The Iremonger Trilogy”
- Elizabeth Crook | “The Which Way Tree” + “Monday, Monday”
- J Muzacz | “ATX Urban Art”
- Tim O’Brien | “The Things They Carried” + “Going After Cacciato”
- Alicia Roth Wiegel | “Inverse Cowgirl”
- Lawrence Wright | “The Looming Tower” + “God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State”
Adult fiction
- Stacey Abrams | “The Art of Desire” + “Rogue Justice”
- Michael Cunningham | “The Hours” + “A Home at the End of the World”
- Andrew Sean Greer | “Less” + “Less is Lost”
- Ling Ling Huang | “Natural Beauty”
- Abraham Verghese | “The Covenant of Water” + “Cutting for Stone”
Adult nonfiction
- Ingrid Rojas Contreras | “The Man Who Could Move Clouds”
- Roxane Gay | “Bad Feminist” + “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body”
- Walter Isaacson | “Elon Musk”
- Sarafina El-Badry Nance | “Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark”
Cookbooks
- Kenny Gilbert | “Southern Cooking, Global Flavors”
- Amy Thielen | “The New Midwestern Table”
Poetry
- Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton | “Black Chameleon” + “Newsworthy”
- Monica Youn | “From From” + “Blackacre”
Children’s and YA
- Vashti Harrison | “Hair Love” + “Big”
- Matt Mendez | “The Broke Hearts” + “Barely Missing Everything”
- Ali Hazelwood | “Check & Mate” + “Love, Theoretically”
Attend the fest
The Texas Book Festival will take place along Congress Avenue downtown on Saturday, Nov. 11 and Sunday, Nov. 12. The festival is free, with the exception of a few ticketed sessions featuring Roxane Gay, Stacey Abrams, and Michael Cunningham. See the full lineup.