Author Events

Did you know we have the biggest, number one author event series in the country? Each month the St. Louis County Library Foundation brings bestselling and award-winning authors from a variety of genres to the library, offering readers exclusive opportunities to meet and engage with their favorite writers.

Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Seating is limited; early arrival is highly recommended. Books for signing will be available for purchase at the events. For more information, please call 314-994-3300.

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"(S)KIN" book cover and color author photo

Ibi Zoboi

Bestselling Young Adult author Ibi Zoboi presents a groundbreaking contemporary fantasy novel. Every new moon, fifteen-year-old Marisol sheds her skin like the many women before her, shifting into a fireball witch. But Brooklyn is no place for her ancient magic. While Marisol hoped they would leave their old traditions behind when they emigrated from the islands, she knows this will never happen while she remains ensnared by the one person who keeps her chained to her magical past—her mother.

Wednesday, February 26, 2025
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Clark Family Branch
“Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Air We Breathe” book cover and color author photo

Carl Zimmer

New York Times science columnist Carl Zimmer presents the fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe. Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of air. From the ground to the stratosphere, the air teems with invisible life. In “Air-Borne,” Zimmer leads us on an odyssey through the living atmosphere and through the history of its discovery and leaves readers looking at the world with new eyes—as a place where the oceans and forests loft trillions of cells into the air, where microbes eat clouds, and where life soars thousands of miles on the wind.

Thursday, February 27, 2025
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Clark Family Branch
“Battle Mountain” book cover and color author photo

C. J. Box

St. Louis County Library fan-favorite C.J. Box returns with a new thriller in his #1 bestselling series starring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. Following a violent ex-convict’s campaign of destruction, both Joe and his friend and sometime partner, outlaw falconer Nate Romanowksi, are in tatters, especially Nate, who lost almost everything. Wondering if the civilized life left him vulnerable to attack, Nate drops off the grid to prepare for vengeance.

Friday, February 28, 2025
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Clark Family Branch
"After Life" book cover and color author photo of Gayle Forman

Gayle Forman

Award-winning young adult author Gayle Forman presents a magnificent novel about a girl who returns to her life seven years after her death. Directly in the vein of Forman’s blockbuster hit “If I Stay,” this touching story brilliantly examines the impact that one person can have on the world, and celebrates life in all its beautiful complexity.

Monday, March 3, 2025
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Clark Family Branch
“Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity’” book cover and color author photo

Yoni Appelbaum

Yoni Appelbaum is a deputy executive editor of The Atlantic and a social and cultural historian. In “Stuck,” Appelbaum asks: How did America cease to be the land of opportunity? Though for most of world history, your prospects were tied to where you were born, Americans came up with a revolutionary idea: If you didn’t like your lot in life, you could find a better location and reinvent yourself there. For two hundred years, Americans' mobility was the linchpin of economic and social opportunity. “Stuck” demonstrates how zoning laws, raised housing prices and deepened political divides have trapped generations of people in poverty.

Tuesday, March 4, 2025
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Clark Family Branch
"Wild Dark Shore" book cover and color author photo

Charlotte McConaghy

Author of the international bestseller “Migrations,” Australian author Charlotte McConaghy’s latest novel is a breathtaking look at the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love. Dominic Salt and his children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Shearwater was once full of researchers, but the Salts are now its final inhabitants–until a woman mysteriously washes ashore. But the woman isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes the Salts are keeping their own secrets.

Thursday, March 6, 2025
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Clark Family Branch