All updates to the 2025 Texas Book Festival Schedule and Author Lineup will be recorded here.
SATURDAY
- 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM, Book TV on C-SPAN2 Tent, The Price of Progress: Growth, Homelessness, and America’s Future
Brian Goldstone, Michael Geruso, Dean Spears,
- 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM, Texas State Library & Archives Commission (TSLAC), The Wounds of War: Memories of World War II
- Authors:
David Nasaw &Robert M. Edsel
- Authors:
- 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM, Central Market Cooking Tent, Preserving Our Health: Modern Wisdom from the Pantry to the Plate
- Mary Bryant Shrader,
Kylie Sakaida
- Mary Bryant Shrader,
- 2:15 PM – 3:00 PM, Kirkus Tent, Modern Magic: Urban Fantasy Rooted in Realism
- Authors:
Marie Lu &Cadwell Turnbull
- Authors:
- 2:15 PM – 3:00 PM, Central Market Cooking Tent, Taste, Memory, Heritage: A Celebration of Latin Cuisine
- Authors:
Tom Gilliland, Rick Martínez & Marisel Salazar
- Authors:
- 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM, Texas State Library & Archives Commission (TSLAC), Unsung Heroes and Hidden Histories
- Authors: Becky Aikman &
Nathalia Holt
- Authors: Becky Aikman &
- 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM, Kirkus Tent, The Bloody Art of the Murder Mystery
- Authors: Ashley Winstead &
Peter Swanson, Jo Piazza
- Authors: Ashley Winstead &
SUNDAY
- 12:45 – 1:30 PM, Central Market Cooking Tent, Building Community Through Food
- Authors: Molly Yeh,
Kylie Sakaida
- Authors: Molly Yeh,
- 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM, Leamos Tent, Benson Latin American Collection Presents: El Orgullo de ser Tejanas
- Authors: Norma E. Cantú,
Mayra Olivares-Urueta, Crystal Silva-McCormick, Celeste G. Mendoza & Angelica Ruvalcaba
- Authors: Norma E. Cantú,
- 2:15 PM – 3:00 PM, C-SPAN Tent, Fault Lines of Power: Revisiting Revolutions from Tehran to Moscow
- Authors: Scott Anderson
& Julia Ioffe
- Authors: Scott Anderson
- 2:45 – 3:30 PM, Central Presbyterian Church, A Light in the Dark: Singular Stories of Survival
- Authors:
Patricia Lockwood &Maria Reva
- Authors:
- 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM, First United Methodist Church, Haunted by Love: Spells, Spirits and Swooning
- Authors: Sara Raasch &
Lyla SageMai Corland
- Authors: Sara Raasch &
- Rob Franklin
- Tom Gilliland
- Brian Goldstone
- David A. Graham
- Peter Guralnick
- Alejandro Heredia
- Nathalia Holt
- Julia Ioffe
- Basia Irland
- Graci Kim
- Kiese Laymon
- Patricia Lockwood
- Marie Lu
- Cappy McGarr
- David Nasaw
- Mayra Olivares-Urueta
- Lyla Sage
- Crystal Silva-McCormick
- Kylie Sakaida
- R.L. Stine
- Peter Swanson
- Jennie Erin Smith
- Bryan Washington
- Saturday, 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM, Capitol Auditorium, Peter Guralnick in Conversation about The Colonel and The King
- Saturday, 10:45 AM – 11:30 AM, First Baptist Church, R.L. Stine in Conversation about The Last Sleepover
- Saturday, 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM, Tom Gilliland in Conversation about The Soul of Fonda San Miguel
- Saturday, 1:45 PM – 2:30 PM, Kiese Laymon in Conversation about City Summer, Country Summer