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Portland Book Festival 2022: Author Lineup Revealed

This year’s Portland Book Festival, presented by Bank of America, returns to Portland Art Museum and neighboring venues on November 5, 2022.

Join us for this all-ages, daylong celebration of books and storytelling in all forms, including author panels, pop-up readings, writing workshops, kids’ story time, an extensive book fair, local food trucks, and more. 

More information can be found here

Literary Arts is pleased to present the following authors and their most recent titles on Saturday, November 5, 2022:

FICTION

Chelsea Bieker, Heartbroke | Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao | Andrew Sean Greer, Less Is Lost | Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch | Emiko Jean, Mika in Real Life | Meng Jin, Self-Portrait with Ghost | Mat Johnson, Invisible Things | Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land | Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy | Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau | Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling | Daniel Nieh, Take No Names | Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can’t Win | Jon Raymond, Denial | Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back | George Saunders, Liberation Day | Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez | Jess Walter, The Angel of Rome and Other Stories | Cecily Wong, Kaleidoscope | Lidia Yuknavitch, Thrust 

NONFICTION

Rafael Agustin, Illegally Yours: A Memoir | Reza Aslan, An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville | Kate Beaton, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands | Selma Blair, Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up  | Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds/El hombre que movía las nubes | Melissa Febos, Girlhood and Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative |  Jon Gray, Pierre Serrao, and Lester Walker; Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen | Erika Hayasaki, Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family | Hua Hsu, Stay True: A Memoir | Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties: A Book | Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe, Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk | Jon Mooallem, Serious Face: Essays | Casey Parks, Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery | Robin Pecknold, Wading in Waist-high Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes 

POETRY

Eloisa Amezcua, Fighting Is Like a Wife | Matthew Dickman, Husbandry | C J Evans, Lives | Saeed Jones, Alive at the End of the World | Courtney Faye Taylor, Concentrate | Tayi Tibble, Poukahangatus | Shelley Wong, As She Appears  

YOUNG ADULT

P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast, Omens Bite | Aaron Durán, Season of the Bruja | Harper Glenn, Monarch Rising | Ellen Hagan, Don’t Call Me A Hurricane | April Henry, Two Truths and a Lie | Justina Ireland, Rust in the Root | Emiko Jean, Tokyo Dreaming | Sabina Khan, Meet Me in Mumbai | Naz Kutub, The Loophole | Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler 

MIDDLE GRADE

Kwame Alexander, The Door of No Return | Kat Fajardo, Miss Quinces | Gale Galligan, Freestyle | Christina Diaz Gonzalez, Invisible | Jonathan Hill, Tales of a Seventh-Grade Lizard Boy | Amy Kim Kibuishi, The Rema Chronicles | Colin Meloy, The Stars Did Wander Darkling | Jenn Reese, Every Bird a Prince | Aron Nels Steinke, Mr. Wolf’s Class: Snow Day | Renée Watson, Ways to Share Joy 

PICTURE BOOK

Vera Ahiyya, KINDergarten | Vanessa Brantley-Newton and Tammi Sauer, Mary Had a Little Plan | Cathy Camper, Arab Arab All Year Long! | Ben Clanton, Tater Tales: The Greatest in the World! | Nora Ericson, Too Early | Margaret Chiu Greanias and Tracy Subisak, Amah Faraway | Dane Liu, Friends Are Friends, Forever | Eunice Moyle and Sabrina Moyle, The Cosmic Adventures of Astrid and Stella | Carrie Tillotson, Counting to Bananas | Renée Watson, Maya’s Song

View the full author lineup here.
Lineup subject to change. The full schedule of events will be released in October.

HOW TO ATTEND PORTLAND BOOK FESTIVAL

Portland Book Festival General Admission Passes are required for all events. Passes are $15 in advance and $25 day of Festival. Youth 17 & under, or with a valid high school ID get in FREE. All full-priced General Admission Passes include a $5 book fair voucher and entry into Portland Art Museum.

Once you have obtained a General Admission Pass, you can choose to add-on any of these three premium event tickets:

Friday Night Book Market
Beat the crowds and shop the exhibitor fair the night before

Mean Baby: Selma Blair in conversation with Esmé Weijun Wang

Carrie Soto Is Back: Taylor Jenkins Reid in conversation with Cheryl Strayed

SIMPLIFY YOUR PORTLAND BOOK FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE BY PURCHASING AN ALL-INCLUSIVE UMBRELLA PASS.

The Umbrella Pass includes: General Admission Festival Pass (which includes a $5 book fair voucher and entry into Portland Art Museum), Friday Night Book Market entry, premium reserved seats to the Taylor Jenkins Reid and Selma Blair events (and signed copies of their books) as well as an exclusive Portland Book Festival tote bag.

Original artwork for this year’s Festival by Jarlisa Shunte.

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