The Gamble House Bookstore will be closed on Tuesday, June 30 and Saturday, July 4.
Book Club: DUST JACKET JOURNEYS
Tuesday, July 14, 2026, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
The Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Join us for our book club, Dust Jacket Journeys, where we invite you to explore perspectives around architecture, art, identity, and place.
Dust Jacket Journeys is currently held on the second Tuesday of the month from 5:30-6:30pm. Each gathering will offer an opportunity for exploring diverse perspectives, sharing discoveries, and the exchange of ideas which make for a meaningful reading experience. To mark the 100th anniversary of Route 66, the books selected this quarter explore and deconstruct the significance of road trips in American family life. We look forward to sharing a literary journey to new perspectives and new understandings one book at a time.
The Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli: In Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative novel, an artist couple set out with their two children on a road trip from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. As the family travels west, the bonds between them begin to fray. Using sound, maps, and photographs to explore themes of displacement and documentation, Luiselli interweaves the fractures in the parents' relationship with the larger story of family separation at the border. A breath-taking work of literature, Lost Children Archive is timely, compassionate, subtly hilarious, and formally inventive—a powerful, urgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.
Purchase The Lost Children Archiveat shop.gamblehouse.org and receive a 20% off coupon for the next featured book.
Musical Storytime with Pasadena Conservatory of Music
Saturday, July 18 at 11am
This Is A Moment by Micah Player
Free drop-in event. No reservations required.
Event will be canceled in instances of rain or heat over 100° f.
Bring a blanket, snacks and join us under the big oak on the Gamble House lawn with Pasadena Conservatory of Music (PCM). Led by PCM Young Musicians’ Department Chair Rachael Denny, Musical Storytime offers a unique learning experience where children’s books become vehicles for musical play. Books will focus on seasons, nature, and creativity, all themes that tie in with the Gamble House.
Sessions will take place on the third Saturday of the month from May – September at 11am
Musical Storytime is made possible through a generous grant from the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts. These grants are funded by its annual benefit event, the Pasadena Showcase House of Design, open April 19 to May 17. For information and to purchase tickets, visit https://pasadenashowcase.org/
Looking for Something Else?
We're a specialized bookstore, which means we don't carry a lot of titles you might find in other stores.
But don't fret, you can still support us whether you're a lover of fiction or cookbooks or just about anything else!
Purchases made at our Gamble House Bookshop site also support our museum.
Shop from our "Staff Picks" lists or use the search bar at the top of the page to find your latest read.
The Gamble House Bookstore is a drop-off site for Pasadena For All, a local grassroots mutual aid and advocacy organization who come together every Saturday to distribute items to our unhoused neighbors.
Items currently in high demand:
Men's shoes, tents, tarps, sleeping bags, NEW socks, NEW underwear, Men's clothing sizes L, XL, XXL & up, NEW toiletries, Backpacks, First aid supplies
Please refrain from donating stained or torn clothing. Please launder items prior to donation.
