The week of Oct. 1 was Banned Book Week. Yes. Banning and challenging is still happening. I know. It’s crazy. So we are going to take most of the month and celebrate our Freedom to Read. Check out our window display. Read all of the books. Read the books you want to read. Read the…
The fall preview column — one of our favorite times of the year! Turns out there are way too many great books coming this fall, so I concentrated on the fantastic and varied list of titles landing in September that we are particularly looking forward to…. And then I added some bonus titles at the…
Here are a few of our staff recommendations for the rest of your summer reading — and don’t forget to check our staff-recommended shelves next time you are in the shop – we keep a great, rotating selection of our favorites on our shelves. A brief list: “The Wager” by David Grann. “All the Sinner’s…
July so soon! Summer Reading Book Bingo presented by Seattle Arts + Lectures. Download your copy of the Adult Bingo Card, The Kids Bingo Card and/or Lotería de Lectura [Para mayores de 18 años.] All Here. Just to get you started… here are a few ideas for some of the categories on the Book Bingo…
June! We are so ready for summer [and what a great start it’s been!] – and summer reading. Here are a few suggestions for the kids’ summer reading… Let’s start with some recent award winners. 2023 Edgar Award Winners: Best Juvenile. “Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse” by Marthe Jocelyn. For young detective Aggie…
Mother’s Day is May 14 this year – we have many lovely cards to choose from and we would be very happy to help you select a book for any [and all!] mothers or moms or mother-adjacent humans in your life! We also offer complimentary gift wrapping [and we are totally fine if you claim…
April is National Poetry Month! And Washington State just got a brand new Poet Laureate. Congratulations to Arianne True, who will take over from Rena Priest in May for her two-year term. Learn more about True here. Without further ado, here is a very partial list of the great poetry we have in the shop…
March is Women’s History Month. The theme for 2023 is “Celebrating Women Who Tell our Stories!” It’s like they made it all about bookshops this year – excellent! Half of the books in our shop are women telling stories. So many amazing choices – you really can’t go wrong. This makes it tough to choose…
The ‘littlest’ month is a great time for a list of all the cute little books that we have in the shop! All of a sudden it seems like there are all kinds of cute and beautiful little books – but, aside from being legit cute – most of them come from award winning authors…
Happy New Books! There are so many great books scheduled to be published this year. Here is a partial list of titles that we are particularly looking forward to in the next few months: “Sam” by Allegra Goodman. This unforgettable portrait of coming-of-age offers subtle yet powerful reflections on class, parenthood, addiction, lust, and the…
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December! So many great books and all kinds of other great gift items on shelves everywhere in the bookshop: calendars [wall, engagement, page-a-day, mini-wall], tote bags, note cards, socks, fancy stickers, fancy bookmarks, mugs, magnets, Sue Coccia art flags, candles, Happy Blob Fish, racing sloths, giant pencils, axolotl tree ornaments… all so much fun! Bestsellers…
No idea what happened to October. [Or September to be honest…] But here we are: November! Ready or not. We are getting ready for all of the holiday festivities… a bit more every day. So many great books and all kinds of other great gift items on shelves everywhere in the bookshop: calendars [wall, engagement, …
It is fall once again! Our favorite part of fall is always the great books coming in the next few months. We don’t necessarily love it getting dark earlier and earlier… but all of the beautiful new books kind of make up for it. Here is a partial list of Big Fall Books. It includes…
Banned Books Week is officially Sept. 18 – 24, 2022. We will be celebrating the Freedom to Read all month long. Stop by to admire the new window display featuring an amazing Phoenix and many banned books, which we of course have available to purchase. Along with all of the books, we have really great…
August! Plenty of reading time left for Summer Book Bingo! There is a great list to help with Adult Summer Book Bingo in last month’s column, here. Both the adult and the Kids summer Book Bingo lists are available to download on the Seattle Arts + Lectures website, here. This month, we have a few…
July! Let summer begin. Plenty of reading time for Summer Book Bingo! This month, we are helping with some of the categories on the Adult Bingo card…. [stay tuned for next month… we will tackle the Kids Summer Book Bingo list…] We have the Adult Bingo card available at the Bookshop for you to pick…
Happy June. The rain is warmer. And the sun is setting later – even if we don’t see it! We must be getting close to summer! For the very first time, Edmonds Bookshop will have a booth at the Edmonds Arts Festival! We will be a part of the new addition to the festival this…
Happy May! Spring has arrived. We know because the rain and hail are a bit warmer. Yikes! We are finishing the so-very-fun Independent Bookstore Passport Challenge – we had 10 days this year – clear until May 9. We loved seeing all of the people finding all of the bookstores. And truly – we loved…
Poetry Month 2022: Following is a brief list of poets of note, award winners, and recent books of poetry — enjoy! Rena Priest is the Washington State Poet Laureate until 2023. She is the first Indigenous poet to assume the role, the announcement about that is here. Priest’s literary debut, “Patriarchy Blues,” was honored with…
50 years ago in movie theaters: 50 years ago on our radios [‘cuz that’s all we had!]: American Pie [Don McLean]; Nights in White Satin [The Moody Blues]; The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face [Roberta Flack]; Brand New Key [Melanie]; Song Sung Blue[Neil Diamond]. Details of life in 1972: A gallon of gas…
There has been evidence that spring will eventually arrive: The days are getting longer [sunset after 5:15 p.m.!]; and all of those daffodils bulbs are starting to sprout in Edmonds flower boxes. Of course, it’s dangerous to get ahead of ourselves; we all remember that snow sometimes happens in March… So while we are looking…
Welcome the New Year!! Such high hopes. 2022 has to be better… right?? Right…? In the December column we shared the bestsellers for the year through November at Edmonds Bookshop. We found the December best seller list really interesting, so we thought we’d share it with you. It ended up being a mostly non-fiction Christmas…
Ready or not, it is December! We have almost made it through another crazy year… this is where the fun part of crazy begins for us… We have books. We have great recommendations. And: We wrap the books you are gifting for free. [We will wrap books that you are gifting to yourself, too. We…
‘Tis already the season! You’ve been hearing about the troubles in the supply chain, and it has indeed hit the publishing world. Luckily: We have many great books to recommend and they are available and actually in the bookshop! Here is a partial list of great staff recommendations for holiday gifting. We all have so…
Greetings and happy October! We are already being warned about “supply-chain issues.” So, we are passing the warnings on to you, and recommending that you make plans to shop a little bit earlier than usual for any of the holiday festivities in which you plan to partake: October is the new December. As cliché as…
