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. Chicken That Learned to Fly by William Emerson

  3. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

  4. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

  5. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

  6. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

  7. Bay Area Mama Handbook

  8. Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

  9. New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

  10. What Happened by Scott McClellan

  11. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

  12. Old Willow Glen by Liz Giarratana


Willow Glen Books Bestsellers
June 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 17, 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

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.

Silks by Dick Francis and Felix Francis is the second collaboration by the acclaimed mystery writer and his son.

September

America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy by Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft

Fine Just The Way It Is by Annie Proulx is the third and final collection in the Wyoming Stories.

The Sea Is So Wide And My Boat Is So Small: Letters to Our Grandchildren by Marion Wright Edelman examines what has been and what should be done to ensure children’s safety.

October

The Gate House by Nelson Demille finds John Sutter, the protagonist of The Gold Coast back on Long Island after ten years.

A Most Wanted Man by John le Carre fictionalizes the German intelligence agencies fighting the war on terror.