Winter Arts Guide 2025: Books

Nashville is a literary city. We have award-winning authors, popular self-published authors, poets, book clubs, banned-book meetups, writing classes, independent bookstores, independent publishers and a robust roster of author events.

Whether you’re looking to join a niche book club, read more banned books, merge your bourbon and poetry interests, or just use that new day planner you optimistically — if a bit delusionally — bought in the fall, you’re going to want to add these events to your calendar.

We’ve rounded up a sampling of events happening this season. For a complete list of events, check the websites of Parnassus Books, The Bookshop, Novelette Booksellers, The Green Ray, Bard’s Towne Books & Bourbon, the Nashville Public Library, Third Man Books and The Porch.

Saturday, Jan. 25: Novelette Book Club: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, 9 a.m. at Novelette Booksellers, 1101 Chapel Ave.

Sunday, Jan. 26: Novelette Book Club: Straw Dogs of the Universe by Ye Chun, 6 p.m. at Novelette Booksellers, 1101 Chapel Ave.

Monday, Jan. 27: Andy Corren, author of Dirtbag Queen, in conversation with Stephanie Silverman, 6:30 p.m. at Parnassus Books, 3900 Hillsboro Pike

Tuesday, Jan. 28: Lauren Kung Jessen, author of Yin Yang Love Song, in conversation with Clare Gilmore, 6:30 p.m. at Parnassus Books, 3900 Hillsboro Pike

Thursday, Jan. 30: Lola Kirke, author of Wild West Village, in conversation with Alice Carrière, 7 p.m. at Urban Cowboy Nashville, 1603 Woodland St.

Friday, Jan. 31: Neko Case, author of The Harder I Fight, the More I Love You, in conversation with Ann Powers, 8 p.m. at OZ Arts, 6172 Cockrill Bend Circle

Friday, Jan. 31: An evening with Sheree L. Greer and friends, featuring a pop-up from Bard’s Towne Books & Bourbon, 6:30 p.m. at Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee, 805 12th Ave. S.

Sunday, Feb. 2: The Porch’s Annual Heartbreak Happy Hour with Cortney Warner, Nina Adel and more, 7 p.m. at Jackalope Ranch Taproom, 429B Houston St.

Tuesday, Feb. 4: Charlie Peacock, author of Roots and Rhythm, featuring special guests, 6:30 p.m. at Parnassus Books, 3900 Hillsboro Pike

Monday, Feb. 10: Adriana Herrera, author of A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke, in conversation with Katie Garaby, 6:30 p.m. at Parnassus Books, 3900 Hillsboro Pike

Wednesday, Feb. 19: Kimberly Lemming, author of I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com, in a special double event with Jo Segura, author of Temple of Swoon, 6:30 p.m. at Parnassus Books, 3900 Hillsboro Pike 

Saturday, Feb. 22: Jojo Moyes, author of We All Live Here, in conversation with Ann Patchett, 6:30 p.m. at Montgomery Bell Academy, Dead Poets Society Room, 4001 Harding Pike

Thursday, March 6: Elaine Weiss, author of Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement, in conversation with Joyce Searcy, 6:30 p.m. at Nashville Public Library Auditorium, 151 Sixth Ave. N.

Wednesday, March 19: Niall Williams, author of Time of the Child, in conversation with Ann Patchett, 6:30 p.m. at Parnassus Books, 3900 Hillsboro Pike

Saturday, March 29: Professional headshots for writers with photographer Emily April Allen, 12 15-minute sessions available at porchtn.org, at The Porch House, 2811 Dogwood Place

Monday, March 31: Jeff Chu, author of Good Soil, in conversation with Margaret Renkl, 6:30 p.m. at Parnassus Books, 3900 Hillsboro Pike

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