Another week, another volunteer pick! Mahmud recommends both “Half Blood Blues” by Esi Edugyan and “I Who Have Never Known Men” by Jacqueline Harpman. Both great novels with the first being a great story traveling through time with a blues magician and the latter being gritty tale on survival and hope. Share your thoughts if you’ve read either!
We got a new staff recommendation by Sophia with Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte! Have you had a chance to read this already? Let us know your thoughts.
We’re taking sometime today to celebrate Lorraine Hansberry’s 95th birthday! We have plenty of copies of A Raisin in the Sun coming in this week, come by and snag a copy. Fan of this? Leave some suggestions on who’d you like to see next!
2. Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry - Mollie Godfrey
3. Lorraine Hansberry: Playwright at Work - All Arts Vault
4. A Raisin in the Sun (1989) - Bill Duke
5. Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust
Come check out our Top 5 sellers of April! We have in no particular order
The Message - Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin (30 Year Anniversary Edition)
Vanishing World - Sayaka Murata
Perfect Victims - Mohammed El-Kurd
Martyr! - Kaveh Akbar
Stop by for these and more of your favorites!
Hey folks!! 👋👋👋 join us in supporting @octavias_bookshelf and those affected by the LA Wildfires over the next few weeks. We’re excited to welcome the West Philly community to a call for aid and hopeful for a great fundraiser! As always our hours vary so check in with the store before you shop 😊
Today and tomorrow are the last days of @btb_philly 's Prison Banned Books Week fundraiser. Our window display (pictured) has some great selections that we think would get lots of use! Purchase & donate one of these titles in our store and your donation will be matched in dollars by a generous anonymous donor. 💖 That means your book will have DOUBLE the impact towards BTB's goals.💖
#prisonbannedbooksweek
#booksthroughbars #booksthroughbarsphilly #philadelphia #Books #Philly #donatenow
We’re partnering with @makingworldsbooks for Prison Banned Books Week! 🫂
Every book you buy from now through Sept 28th will be matched up to $2,000! Buy books from our registry online (link in bio) or from @makingworldsbooks or @bindlestiffbookstore 📚
#prisonbannedbooksweek #booksthroughbarsphilly #bookstoprisoners #readmorebooks #booksnotbans
🌟Join this Saturday for the @phillybookcrawl !🌟
We'll have tables of heavily discounted books for sale on the sidewalk and, as always, great discounts on new books in-store. We'll be open from 12PM-7PM!
📗🟢💚 Brat Summer at Bindlestiff 📗🟢💚
Grab your own copy of these titles (and more) from @librofm 's Brat Summer book list 😜
Books pictured:
-The Guest by Emma Cline
-Down the Drain by Julia Fox
-A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett
-All Fours by Miranda July
-Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz
-The Idiot by Elif Batuman
-You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
-Bunny by Mona Awad
-Little Rabbit by Alyssa Songsiridej
(So many more books on this list are on the shelves too!)
Top 10 July bestsellers (in no particular order)
- A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by Octavia E. Butler
- Housemates by Emma Copely Eisenberg
- Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
- Wild Philly
- James by Percival Everett
- The Ethical Slut: by Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easton
- Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
