Venue
Solid State Books
Mostly Talks, Ideas & Policy.
Solid State Books, 600 H St NE, Washington, DC. 21 upcoming events, mostly Talks, Ideas & Policy. Dates, times and details on AskAlice.
Upcoming here
6:00PM
6:00 PM
Knits & Yarns
Knits n' Yarns knitting group is an open group for all bookish fiber artists to discuss works-in-progress, finished objects, and our favorite reads, current reads, and titles for our to-be-read lists…
7:00PM
7:00 PM
Reading the City: The Secret Life of Groceries
"A deeply curious and evenhanded report on our national appetites." -- The New York Times
In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore's Dilemma , an extraordinary investigation into the hu…
7:00PM
7:00 PM
Books by the Bottle: Hazel Says No
When Hazel Blum’s father gets a tenured job at a prestigious college, she and her family relocate from Brooklyn to a middle-of-nowhere town in Maine. But just as they begin to slowly acclimate to the…
7:00PM
7:00 PM
Naomi Kanakia - What's So Great About the Great Books?
Join us for an exciting night with author
Naomi Kanakia as she discusses her latest book
What's So Great About the Great Books?
in conversation with Jerusalem Demsas
to be held at Solid State Books o…
3:00PM
3:00 PM
Poetry Book Club: Something about Living
Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry
2025 ALA Notable Book
Winner of the 2025 Washington State Book Award for Poetry
2025 Arab American Book Award Winner (George Ellenbogen Poetry Award)…
7:00PM
7:00 PM
XOXO Book Club: Intrigue
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a sizzling noir about desire, danger, and greed, in which seduction is the ultimate con.
Handsome con arti…
7:00PM
7:00 PM
Horror Book Club - October Double Feature
Richard doesn’t have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage, a first chance at fatherhood, and a quiet life as an art teacher in Virginia. Then the body of a ritualistically murde…
6:00PM
6:00 PM
Knits & Yarns
Knits n' Yarns knitting group is an open group for all bookish fiber artists to discuss works-in-progress, finished objects, and our favorite reads, current reads, and titles for our to-be-read lists…
7:00PM
7:00 PM
Natasha Lennard - On Un/Certainty
Join us for an exciting night with author
Natasha Lennard as she discusses her latest book
On Un/Certainty: The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times
in conversation with Stefan Eich
to be held at Solid S…
2:00PM
2:00 PM
Comics With Bookmarks ft. Author Oliver Mertz - A Ghost Arm Made of Angry Ghosts
Join us for a special edition of
Comics With Bookmarks Book Club
featuring the author
Oliver Mertz
We will be discussing his most recent graphic novel
A Ghost Arm Made Of Angry Ghosts
RSVP here!
Fro…
7:00PM
7:00 PM
New Fiction Book Club: Mazywood
All the Sinners Bleed meets Erasure in this literary thriller from the award-winning author of The Reformatory following the grandson of a famous Black actress who returns to his grandmother’s cabin…
7:00PM
7:00 PM
Scifi Fantasy Book Club: The Anubis Gates
Now celebrating 40 years in print— take a dazzling journey through time with Tim Power’s classic, Philip K. Dick Award-winning tale...
“There have been other novels in the genre about time travel, b…
7:00PM
7:00 PM
Ryan Burruss - American Crow
Join us for an exciting night with author
Ryan Burruss as he discusses his new novel
American Crow
to be held at Solid State Books on H St. NE
Tickets with, AND without a book are available here!
An…
5:00PM
5:00 PM
Between Our Legs - A Panel
Join us for an exciting night with authors
Caroline Beuley, Jessica Hendry Nelson,
Anushay Hossain, and Justine Payton
as they discuss the new anthology
Between Our Legs: Silence-Breaking Personal Na…
7:00PM
7:00 PM
Reading the City: There is No Place for Us
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” ( Associated Press ) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troub…
7:00PM
7:00 PM
Susan Neiman - Call It Evil
Join us for an exciting night with author
Susan Neiman as she discusses her latest book
Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
in conversation with Diane McWhorter
to be held at Solid State Books…
7:00PM
7:00 PM
Books by the Bottle: See You Next Tuesday
For fans of The West Wing and When Harry Met Sally, a heartwarming enemies-to-lovers romance featuring two campaign staffers who agree on their politics but disagree on everything else.
Anya Katz is…
6:00PM
6:00 PM
Knits & Yarns
Knits n' Yarns knitting group is an open group for all bookish fiber artists to discuss works-in-progress, finished objects, and our favorite reads, current reads, and titles for our to-be-read lists…
7:00PM
7:00 PM
XOXO Book Club: The Shampoo Effect
“Funny, drama-fueled, and full of Jackson's breezy wit. . . Brilliant.” —Coco Mellors, New York Times bestselling author of Blue Sisters
“The platonic ideal of a beach read.” — The New York Times
A…
7:00PM
7:00 PM
Horror Book Club - Sister, Maiden, Monster
A visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transformation and told through the eyes of three women trying to survive the nightmare
To survive they must evolve.
A virus tears ac…
3:00PM
3:00 PM
Poetry Book Club: At the End of the World is a Pond
A stunning debut volume infused with apocalyptic overload, beginnings and endings, and all the ways we betray ourselves.
“[A] masterful debut.” —Christopher?Spaide,? Literary Hub
At the End of the W…