The Book Catapult

The Book Catapult The Book Catapult is an independent bookstore in San Diego's South Park neighborhood. Let us put a real book in your hand, friend.

Our beloved Tamara is leaving TBC for the green pastures of the publishing world! We will miss her terribly but are EXTR...
05/08/2026

Our beloved Tamara is leaving TBC for the green pastures of the publishing world! We will miss her terribly but are EXTREMELY lucky to have had her as an irreplaceable lynchpin for these last 4 years. She has done SO very much for the Catapult both behind the scenes (you have no idea!) and at the front of the shop that I’m not sure what we will look like once she’s gone. But we are just SO GODDAMN PROUD of her as she heads off on this next gig!! Her last official day as a Catapult Bookseller is this Friday, so come on by to wish her well before she departs. ❤️📚❤️🔥🔥🔥❤️📚❤️

Awesome walk through Juniper & Switzer canyons this morning, lead by & authors of URBAN TRAILS: SAN DIEGO!
05/03/2026

Awesome walk through Juniper & Switzer canyons this morning, lead by & authors of URBAN TRAILS: SAN DIEGO!

We made it through the weekend! No casualties. Thank you CRAWLERS! You’re amazing. ❤️See you tomorrow!!! 🌞
04/27/2026

We made it through the weekend! No casualties.

Thank you CRAWLERS! You’re amazing. ❤️
See you tomorrow!!! 🌞

I’ve got a golden ticket….Find the 🏆GOLDEN TICKET🏆 hidden inside The Book Catapult on Indepenent Bookstore Day, Saturda...
04/22/2026

I’ve got a golden ticket….
Find the 🏆GOLDEN TICKET🏆 hidden inside The Book Catapult on Indepenent Bookstore Day, Saturday April 25 and win 🔥🔥12 MONTHS OF AUDIOBOOKS!!!🔥🔥

🔥📚A teetering Sunday Stack for your Coffee this month. •Urban Trails: San Diego - Susie Kara Slater & Chris Griffith (🔥E...
04/19/2026

🔥📚A teetering Sunday Stack for your Coffee this month.

•Urban Trails: San Diego - Susie Kara Slater & Chris Griffith (🔥EVENT ON MAY 3rd!!)
•Passport Photo Service - Philip Sharkey
•The Beginning Comes After the End - Rebecca Solnit
•On the Calculation of Volume IV - Solvej B***e
•Perspective(s) - Laurent Binet
•Sky Daddy - Kate Folk
•The Antidote - Karen Russell
•The Memory Palace - Nate Dimeo
•The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore - Evan Friss
•Transcription - Ben Lerner
•In Trees - Robert Moor
•Lost Lambs - Madeline Cash
•Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age - Vauhini Vara
•A Walk in the Park - Kevin Fedarko
•London Falling - Patrick Radden Keefe
•The Penguin Book of the International Short Story - edited by Rabih Alameddine & John Freeman
•Python’s Kiss: Stories - Louise Erdrich
•Yesteryear - Caron Claire Burke
•Go Gentle - Maria Semple
•American Fantasy - Emma Straub
•The Keeper - Tana French
•When the Forest Breathes - Suzanne Simard
•Atlas of Never Built Architecture - Sam Lubell & Greg Goldin

🔥🔥🔥WE HAVE KIDS SHIRTS!!!🔥🔥🔥Hot off the presses at the amazing , we have 2 colors (gold & gray) of the classic Kong shir...
04/18/2026

🔥🔥🔥WE HAVE KIDS SHIRTS!!!🔥🔥🔥
Hot off the presses at the amazing , we have 2 colors (gold & gray) of the classic Kong shirt, designed by our pal , in kids sizes 2-12. Plus the adult tee is now available in a sweet navy blue. Huzzah! (Coming to the website soon, they’re only available in the shop for the moment.)

🔥Friday Night is Poetry Night!🔥📚Soft Focus Presents 💥Bryan Birdlong 💥Kassy Lee .lee💥Lisa MulomaHosted by Paola Capó-Garc...
04/15/2026

🔥Friday Night is Poetry Night!🔥

📚Soft Focus Presents
💥Bryan Birdlong
💥Kassy Lee .lee
💥Lisa Muloma
Hosted by Paola Capó-García

7:00pm at TBC

🔥Your Ides of March Coffee stack:•A Useful Guide to Useless Facts That Are Kinda Useful•Train Dreams - Denis Johnson•Hik...
03/16/2026

🔥Your Ides of March Coffee stack:

•A Useful Guide to Useless Facts That Are Kinda Useful
•Train Dreams - Denis Johnson
•Hiking Zen - Brother Phap Xa & Brother Phap Luu (check our website for event info!)
•The Secret Life of a Cemetery - Benoît Gallot
•I Was Alive Here Once: Ghost Stories - Sarah Coolidge
•So You Want to Own Greenland? - Elizabeth Buchanan
•The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne - Ron Currie
•The Book of I - David Greig (current Catapult Book Club selection)
•Adventures in the Louvre - Elaine Sciolino
•Thirty-Two Worlds for Field - Manchán Magan
•The Irish Goodbye - Beth Ann Fennelly
•The Natural Way of Things - Charlotte Wood
•Freezing Point - Anders Bodelsen
•The Guards - Ken Bruen
•Galway’s Edge - Ken Bruen
•Raising Hare - Chloe Dalton
•(more) Brawler - Lauren Groff
•Strange Buildings - Uketsu
•Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History - Caroline Tracy
•We Are The World (Cup) - Roger Bennett
•White River Crossing - Ian McGuire
•Now I Surrender - Alvaro Enriguez

🔥SMALL PRESS NITE🔥VOL. 14🔥🔥Saturday 7pm🔥 Featuring the literary stylings of:💥Jessamyn Violet💥Mac Crane💥Becca Rae Rose💥Jo...
03/10/2026

🔥SMALL PRESS NITE🔥VOL. 14🔥
🔥Saturday 7pm🔥

Featuring the literary stylings of:
💥Jessamyn Violet
💥Mac Crane
💥Becca Rae Rose
💥Josiah Roberts
with our host KKUURRTT

We were EXTREMELY lucky this afternoon to have a quick visit from the inestimable LAUREN GROFF! She’s in town for an eve...
03/04/2026

We were EXTREMELY lucky this afternoon to have a quick visit from the inestimable LAUREN GROFF! She’s in town for an event tonight at - and Julie there kindly drove Lauren over to TBC to hang out and sign some books this afternoon. We have a lot of signed copies in stock right now! (Matrix, Vaster Wilds, Fates & Furies, Florida) As well her incredible, brand new story collection, BRAWLER - which is shaping up to be my favorite book of 2026. SO good!

Thanks for dropping in ! (I made sure to include a pic of the v-cart, in case you needed to see it in action again!)

(Thanks again to and for making things happen!)

📚🔥A fully loaded stack for a fully loaded Coffee crowd today. So many great books out already this year!•Cats In Pants(!...
02/22/2026

📚🔥A fully loaded stack for a fully loaded Coffee crowd today. So many great books out already this year!

•Cats In Pants(!) - Naomi Tipping
•Information Age - Cora Lewis
•Eradication - Jonathan Miles
•Collared: How We Made the Modern Dog - Chris Pearson
•Rose/House - Arkady Martine
•The Lamb - Lucy Rose
•Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My •Ambitious Career - Kristi Coulter
•Mule Boy - Andrew Krivak
•The Age of Calamities - Senaa Ahmad
•Fire Exit - Morgan Talty
•Vigil - George Saunders
•Evil Genius - Claire Oshetsky
•Murder Bimbo - Rebecca Novack
•The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires - Sophie Pinkham
•Carthage: A New History - Eve Macdonald
•Crux - Gabriel Tallent
•The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary - Terry Tempest Williams
•Traversal - Maria Popova
Bonus:
•Brawler - Lauren Groff (on sale Tuesday!)
•Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood (the current Catapult Book Club selection that I forgot to mention!)

Address

3010-B Juniper Street
San Diego, CA
92104

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 7pm
Saturday 10am - 7pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

Telephone

+16197953780

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