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Boston Book Festival
Boston, MA · Arts & Culture
- When
- October 17, 2026
- Where
- Copley Square · Boston · MA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
The Boston Book Festival fills Copley Square each October with author talks, panels, and a book fair drawing publishers and independent presses from across the region. It started in 2009 and has grown into one of the largest free literary festivals in New England. Programming continues year round through a companion series called BBF Unbound.
The history within reach
- Boston Book Festivalsame spot
The Boston Book Festival fills Copley Square each October with author talks, panels, and a book fair drawing publishers and independent presses from across the region.
- Boston Pride for the People Paradesame spot
Boston's LGBTQ+ Pride parade and festival, run by Boston Pride for the People, the nonprofit that revived the march after the original Boston Pride Committee, which had organized it since 1999, dissolved in 2021.
- Boston Marathonsame spot
The world's oldest annual marathon, run from Hopkinton to a finish line on Boylston Street in Boston, held each year on Patriots' Day.
- The first public library0.1 mi
The first large free municipal library in America, on the then-radical principle that a city should lend books to anybody.
Two pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line killed three people and wounded hundreds in April 2013.