Willow Glen Books
1330 Lincoln Avenue
San Jose, CA 95125
Tel: 408 298 8141
Fax: 408 298 8237
wgbooks@att.net

Store Hours
Monday 10am-6pm
Tuesday 10am-6pm
Wednesday 10am-6pm
Thursday 10am-9pm
Friday 10am-9pm
Saturday 10am-6pm
Sunday 11am-5pm

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Best Sellers

  1. Touring Historic Willow Glen by WGNA Historic Committee

  2. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

  3. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

  4. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

  5. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

  6. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

  7. Miracle At Speedy Motors by Alexander Mccall Smith

  8. The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters

  9. Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje


Willow Glen Books Bestsellers
May 2008
News & Events

Autographed Copies

We have autographed copies for sale of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Call or email to reserve your copies.



Poetry Readings
The 2nd Thursday of the month at 7pm
Next Meeting: July 10, 2008
Featured Poet: Nicholas Karavatos

Writers' Group
The 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month at 7:15pm
Next Meeting: July 10, 2008

Women's Book Club
The 4th Monday of the month at 7pm
Next Meeting: July 28, 2008

  • July: Swift Justice by Harry Farrell


Daytime Book Club
The 4th Friday of the month at 1pm
Next Meeting: September 26, 2008
The daytime book club is on summer hiatus and will resume meeting on Friday, September 26th at 1:00 pm. The book for discussion on that date is Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett. This is still a small book club looking for new members, so if you are interested in joining the book club, contact the bookstore.

New Books

June

America America by Ethan Canin has been described as a latter day Great Gatsby set in 1970s America.

Made in the USA by Billie Letts

This Land Is Their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich

July

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Sanction by Eric Van Lustbader is the latest Bourne thriller and the third by this author.

August

Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman examines the rising global competition for energy and global climate change, and proposes a strategy called geo-greenism to confront these challenges.