Boston Book Festival 2025

When:
Saturday, Oct 25, 2025 10:00a -
6:00p

Where:
Copley Square
560 Boylston St
Boston, MA

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Festivals & Fairs, Food, Lectures & Conferences, Music

Event website:
https://bostonbookfest.org/

Celebrating the power of words to stimulate, agitate, unite, delight, and inspire, the Boston Book Festival presents year-round events culminating in an annual festival that promotes a culture of reading and ideas and enhances the vibrancy of our city.


View the full schedule of events here.


BBF presents An Evening with Shonda Rhimes here.


2025 Keynote Speakers:


Julia Quinn

Romance Keynote

Special Ticketed Event - Thursday, Oct. 23rd

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Step beyond the page with Julia Quinn, the #1 New York Times bestselling author behind the Bridgerton phenomenon. In this exclusive live conversation, Quinn will reflect on her storied career. Audiences will gain an intimate look into her writing process, the evolution of her characters, and the art of crafting romance for a modern audience. With her signature warmth and wit, she’ll also reveal what it’s like to bring her stories to Hollywood, from collaborating with Shonda Rhimes to seeing her novels adapted into a global streaming sensation.


Andrew Ross Sorkin

Kickoff Keynote

Special Ticketed Event - Friday, Oct. 24th

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Bestselling author, New York Times columnist, and CNBC co-anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin takes the stage with 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History—And How It Shattered a Nation (publishing October 14). With razor-sharp insight, Sorkin unpacks the financial and political upheaval that shook Wall Street nearly a century ago—and explores the startling parallels to our present moment. Expect a gripping, no-holds-barred look at power, politics, and the perils of unchecked ambition.


Geraldine Brooks

Memoir Keynote


Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks (March, Horse) presents her latest release, Memorial Days: A Memoir, a deeply moving reflection on sudden loss and the journey toward healing.


Patricia Cornwell

Mystery Keynote


International bestselling author Patricia Cornwell discusses her thriller Sharp Force, continuing the legacy of her iconic Kay Scarpetta series that helped define the forensic crime genre.


Kiran Desai

Fiction Keynote


Booker Prize–winning author of The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai joins the festival to discuss her new novel The Loneliness of Sonia & Sunny—a spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity.


Maureen Dowd

Non-fiction Keynote


Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd introduces her latest work, Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech, offering her renowned sharp-eyed observations on icons and iconoclasts along with her incisive take on the current political landscape.


Hafsah Faizal

YA Keynote


#1 New York Times bestselling author and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree Hafsah Faizal discusses her new novel A Steeping Of Blood, the thrilling conclusion to her gritty, vampire-heist fantasy duology that began with A Tempest of Tea.


More on Boston Book Festival:

The 2025 Boston Book Festival will take place on Saturday, October 25, 2025 from 10am – 6pm in Copley Square. Now celebrating its 17th year, the Boston Book Festival (BBF) is an independent nonprofit that presents an annual free eponymous book festival and other literary and author-focused events throughout the year. Founded in 2009, the BBF aims to “celebrate the power of words to stimulate, agitate, unite, delight, and inspire…and promotes a culture of reading and ideas that enhances the vibrancy of our city.” The Festival is traditionally held each October and draws tens of thousands of attendees to Boston's Back Bay for author presentations in the Boston Public Library and other locations in Copley Square. The annual book celebration combines a street festival with an array of free events with authors and other literary presenters from around the world, and in 2023, BBF launched a separate children’s literary event, JustKids!. Learn more at: https://bostonbookfest.org/

 



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