Take A Look

Support Local: The Best Independent Bookstores in Houston

With as many stellar indie bookstores as there are in Houston, you can find pretty much any read you could possibly want—and maybe a few you didn't even know you needed.

08/07/2025 By Meredith Nudo, Amarie Gipson, and Daniel Renfrow

The Must List

Inside Houston’s Long-Running Reading Series That Costs Only $5

Since the 1990s, Inprint has brought literary legends like Margaret Atwood and Ta-Nehisi Coates to Houston stages—without breaking readers’ budgets.

07/24/2025 By Meredith Nudo

Community Space

The Secret to Brazos Bookstore’s 50-Year Success

The independent bookshop has changed its ownership model and adapted to reader tastes over half a century.

03/18/2024 By Holly Beretto

EVENTS

Upcoming Houston Book Events You Won’t Want to Miss

Nobel Prize winners, local authors, and book conventions await you.

08/11/2022 By Alexia Partouche

Pride in Pages

Celebrate Pride on Your Bookshelf with These Houston Authors

From remarkable memoirs to stirring science fiction, these reads are sure to speak to you (and stick with you long after Pride Month is over).

06/07/2022 By Kaitlyn Miller

Books

Where To Borrow Audiobooks in Houston

Here's how you can access nearly 85,000 books from the palm of your hand.

02/03/2022 By Amarie Gipson

Warning Lights

Daniel Silva's Latest Spy Thriller Sounds Familiar

Ahead of the talk for his new book, The Cellist, the spy fiction author chatted about precarious state of American democracy.

07/12/2021 By Olivia Flores Alvarez

Texas Ties

Annette Gordon-Reed Talks Home, History, and Growing up Black in Texas

The renowned author’s new book, On Juneteenth, takes center stage at a special, free Inprint event on June 21.

06/17/2021 By Emma Schkloven

"On Juneteenth"

Annette Gordon-Reed to Headline a Surprise Inprint Event

The renowned Texas-born historian will talk about her memoir, On Juneteenth, on June 21.

06/04/2021 By Emma Schkloven

flipping the script

Ahead of His Inprint Reading, Viet Thanh Nguyen Talks Literary Influences and Asian American Hate

The Pulitzer Prize winner will read from his long-awaited sequel, The Committed, on April 12.

04/09/2021 By Margaret Carmel

Read this

Inprint’s 40th Margarett Root Brown Reading Series Lineup Just Went from Big to Epic

Kazuo Ishiguro and Jhumpa Lahiri will now join an already-stacked lineup of literary heavyweights.

01/05/2021 By Emma Schkloven

Pride, Not Prejudice

UPDATED: 6 Houston Pride Month Events Sure to Bring Your Rainbow Heart a Bit of Joy

These virtual movie screenings and social distanced performances are still on.

06/16/2020 By Chameli Belk-Gupta

Q&A

Lidia Yuknavitch Talks New Book Ahead of Brazos Reading

The bestselling author will share from her first collection of short fiction, Verge, which came out earlier this month.

02/11/2020 By Ryan Pait

Words, Words, Words

Danez Smith on Finding Joy, Cruelty, and Toni Braxton

The National Book Award finalist discusses their new poetry collection ahead of a reading at Brazos Bookstore.

01/30/2020 By Ryan Pait

Pain Turned Prose

Carolyn Forché on Writing About Her Experience During El Salvador's Civil War

The poet and author of What You Have Heard Is True talks about her new memoir ahead of her InPrint reading.

01/27/2020 By Ryan Pait

Stranger Than Fiction

Carmen Maria Machado Talks Memoir Vs. Fiction Ahead of InPrint Reading

We chat with the National Book Award finalist about the challenges in her writing her 2019 memoir Dream House.

01/27/2020 By Ryan Pait

Year in Reading

How I Read 163 Books in 2018—And What I Learned

One writer reflects on a year in the literary life and why he finally brought his reading habits into the 21st century.

12/13/2018 By Ryan Pait

Not Kimberly

Tayari Jones On An American Marriage, the Budget Theory of Writing, and Being Oprah's New Fave

The novelist discusses her recent book ahead of a Brazos Bookstore reading.

03/07/2018 By Ryan Pait