Former Vice President Kamala Harris will return to Houston this weekend, but this time it won’t be for politics. Harris will appear Oct. 4 at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in partnership with Blue Willow Bookshop to promote her new memoir, 107 Days, which hit shelves Sept. 23.
The event is part of a 15-city U.S. and international tour Harris announced last week on Instagram. Stops include New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Durham, Birmingham, Portland, Nashville, Miami, London and Toronto.
“107 Days is my candid and personal account of the shortest presidential campaign in modern history,” Harris wrote in her announcement. “Over the next few months, I will travel our country to share behind-the-scenes moments, lessons learned and how we keep moving forward together.”
A record-breaking release
According to publisher Simon & Schuster, 107 Days is already on track to become the best-selling memoir of 2025. The book sold 350,000 copies in its first week, including print, e-books and audiobooks.
“These sales put 107 Days on a trajectory to be the best-selling memoir published in 2025,” the publishing house said in a statement, adding it has already ordered a fifth printing.
Simon & Schuster President and CEO Jonathan Karp praised the book’s success.
“In addition to being one of the most interesting books ever written about the experience of running for president of the United States, the success of 107 Days proves what a galvanizing and inspiring cultural figure Kamala Harris is,” Karp said.
The only memoirs to surpass Harris’s debut week since 2023 were those of Taylor Swift, Britney Spears and Prince Harry, according to the publisher.
Behind the campaign
In 107 Days, Harris offers her unvarnished account of stepping into the 2024 presidential race after then-President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid on July 21, just 107 days before the November election. Harris wrote that Biden’s initial decision to run again amounted to “recklessness,” though she also detailed the challenges and lessons from her historic, though short-lived, White House bid.
Harris, who turns 61 next month, has not outlined her future political plans but has leaned into her role as a cultural and political voice since leaving office.
Houston supporters ready
For Houston’s large base of supporters, particularly among members of the Divine Nine Black Greek-letter organizations, Harris’s visit is more than a book tour stop.
“I got my ticket the moment it opened up. That woman should’ve been our president,” said Shay Smith, a Houston resident and member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. “We’re showing up in droves to support her.”
