The 2025 Texas Book Festival Takes Place
Nov. 8–9 in Downtown Austin.

The Texas Book Festival, the largest book event in the state and one of the premier book festivals in the country, returns Nov. 8–9 to downtown Austin for its landmark 30th anniversary! Free and open to all, the Festival will feature a star-studded lineup of more than 300 of the year’s leading authors, engaging panel discussions and programs for all ages, family activities, book signings, cooking demonstrations, local food trucks, and the popular Saturday night Lit Crawl. Learn more and explore the full schedule on their website.

Schedule highlights on Saturday, Nov. 8 include:

• 10:45 AM – 11:30 AM | First Baptist Church
  • R.L. Stine in Conversation about The Last Sleepover | Moderator: Rose Brock
  • R.L. Stine [The Last Sleepover (Goosebumps House of Shivers #5)]
• 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM | First United Methodist Church
  • Jason Reynolds in Conversation with Traci Thomas about Coach | Moderator: Traci Thomas 
  • Jason Reynolds (Coach)
• 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM | Central Presbyterian Church
  • Spellbinding Speculative Fiction: Witches, Demons and Interstellar Intrigue
  • John Scalzi (The Shattering Peace) & Martha Wells (Queen Demon) | Moderator: Dan Oppenheimer
• 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM | State Theatre
  • Peter Brown in Conversation about The Wild Robot on the Island | Moderator: Varian Johnson
  • Peter Brown (The Wild Robot on the Island)
• 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM | Capitol Auditorium
  • Ada Limón in Conversation about Startlement: New and Selected Poems | Moderator: Carrie Fountain
  • Ada Limón (Startlement: New and Selected Poems)
• 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM | Texas Tent, Presented by Texas Monthly
  • Skip Hollandsworth In Conversation About She Kills | Moderator: Pamela Colloff
  • Skip Hollandsworth (She Kills: The Murderous Socialite, the Cross-Dressing Bank Robber, and Other True Crime Tales)

Schedule highlights on Sunday, Nov. 9 include:

• 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM | State Theatre
  • Vacation-Ready Reads: Love, Lies and a Little Luggage | Moderator: Allison Hunter
  • Katherine Center (The Love Haters) & Amanda Eyre Ward (Lovers and Liars)
• 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM | YA HQ Tent
  • Adam Silvera in Conversation about The Survivor Wants to Die at the End | Moderator: Jonny Garza Villa
  • Adam Silvera (The Survivor Wants to Die at the End)
• 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM | Central Market Cooking Tent
  • Building Community Through Food | Moderator: Corrie MacLaggan
  • Molly Yeh [Sweet Farm!: More Than 100 Cookies, Cakes, Salads (!), and Other Delights from My Kitchen on a Sugar Beet Farm] & Kylie Sakaida (So Easy So Good: Delicious Recipes and Expert Tips for Balanced Eating)
• 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM | State Theatre
  • Angie Thomas in Conversation about Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Book of Anansi | Moderator: Roz Oliphant-Jones
  • Angie Thomas (Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Book of Anansi)
• 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM | Capitol Auditorium
  • Imani Perry in Conversation about Black in Blues | Moderator: Colette Pierce Burnette
  • Imani Perry (Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People)
• 1:45 PM – 2:30 PM | First United Methodist Church
  • Ghosts of the American Past: Horror Meets History | Moderator: Bret Anthony Johnson
  • Stephen Graham Jones (The Buffalo Hunter Hunter) & Dan Chaon (One of Us)
• 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM | Central Presbyterian Church
  • A Light in the Dark: Singular Stories of Survival | Moderator: Tom Beer
  • Patricia Lockwood (Will There Ever Be Another You) & Maria Reva (Endling)

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Cover photo courtesy Texas Book Festival 

Jose Rodriguez is the Communications & PR Manager at Texas Book Festival.

This post is a sponsored collaboration with Texas Book Festival.