Josh and his team (👋🏻 Hannah & Kaliisha!) are some of the best recommenders around, so I definitely think you should get a bundle of books for yourself or your loved ones if you can! 📚🥰

The @portersqbooks.bsky.social events email is always welcome in my inbox, but especially so when my pal @bookbent.bsky.social is included. Hope to see some of you on 11/12!

Imagine, instead of waiting for one us to pop on here and give a bunch of recommendations, you got yourself a whole bunch all in one fell swoop! Seems pretty sweet. portersquarebooks.com/list/holiday...

We are wrapping up what SHOULD be the last big rearrangement of Cambridge location for the foreseeable future! We're working on a shiny video, but you should come check it out yourself, especially if it's been a few months. It looks great!

Ethan Rutherford’s North Sun is so lovely in its weirdness! Also it belongs to a book cluster that has coalesced in my reading life over the last year or so. In my mind, I have titled this cluster “Ships! What Are They Doing?” (read on for the list)

Well, hey! A certified #WeirdBookWednesday is a finalist for a National Book Award in fiction! If you need a whaling novel with very little whaling & and unspecified pallor of dread woven throughout mundane experiences all told in beautiful, pensive prose, North Sun is your book!

people sometimes ask me “how do you spend a whole hour in the bookstore” and every time I’ve taken folks to one of these I’ve had to drag them out of the store to let the team close.

Depending on how things go today I will build a fort made of my TBR and living there for the foreseeable future. But if was on the east coast I would get together with bookish friends and do this!!!!!

We have 2 Your Own Private Bookstores left for 2025! They're great for birthdays, celebrations, or if you just want the store (and the booksellers) to yourself to get all your holiday shopping done. Dates are 11/14 & 11/21!

My latest order from @portersqbooks.bsky.social along with a trio of biographies I picked up at the Boston Book Festival. In an era of book bans and AI slop, it sure feels nice to chat with authors and buy their books.

This would definitely be a 2026 thing if it happens at all but what if we just...start publishing book reviews? Since so many places stopped for some reason? I mean, we read a lot & have a website

When settler writers in fiction and nonfiction critique elements of whitestream society, there is a reformist element. An attempt to save something. The marginalized writers I talk about in Bad Indians Book Club aren't interested in that. They're interested in a thousand worlds waiting to be born

Readers of the World! Announcing our 2026 Writers in Residence! Our Writer in Residence for Young Readers is @finleary.bsky.social Our Writer in Residence for Adults is @egjames.bsky.social Their terms start February 2026 but you can congratulate them now!

Exciting news! @daanis.ca will be zooming into our November meeting of our Decolonize Your Reading Book club to discuss her new book The Bad Indians Book Club. Saturday November 15 at 11AM. RSVPs very helpful!

The QT Library is just one of the organizations @portersqbooks.bsky.social is helping out this #GivingTuesday. We couldn't be more grateful for everybody who is supporting the queer and trans community in this vital moment!

We're doing #GivingTuesday differently this year, donating 10% of our sales from 12PM-8PM on December 2 to five local organizations doing work that we believe meets this moment. If you can join us, RSVPing would be helpful. If not, but you still want to help, here's a thread of the organizations!

We're doing #GivingTuesday differently this year, donating 10% of our sales from 12PM-8PM on December 2 to five local organizations doing work that we believe meets this moment. If you can join us, RSVPing would be helpful. If not, but you still want to help, here's a thread of the organizations!

Or, what I should have said: It is the very model of an internet phenomenon Through memes and riffs and sometimes gifs Pop culture, it goes on and on From ice-box plums to big big bums in order quite hysterical We understand the meaning even when the puns are terrible.

Hello #BookSky We're waiting until Monday to switch over our staff picks, so you've got one more weekend to get our October staff picks for 20% off! Here's a thread of some that I just think are cool!

Hello #BookSky We're waiting until Monday to switch over our staff picks, so you've got one more weekend to get our October staff picks for 20% off! Here's a thread of some that I just think are cool!

We've decided to keep Halloweekend rolling by playing the Rocky Horror soundtrack this morning so if you're up for...slightly confusing bookstore vibes on a crisp November morning, we've got 'em!

10 Bonus points to the customer in the Michael Myers costume who asked if we had "Men, women, & chainsaws." (Yes, it is a book, but still)

Just came across this book while shelving and since it's Halloween it is my duty to share it for the title alone portersquarebooks.com/book/9798890...

Have introduced the youngins to the genre of Horror Pop so that's what we're playing tonight. Will try not to think to hard about how there was once a time one could make something of a living writing silly Halloweeny songs.

Ohhhh, this is a tough one! I'm going to go with The Devil in Silver! Just tell yourself that Moscow is going as an "Insane Asylum" for Halloween & maybe it all kinda fits portersquarebooks.com/book/9780812...

From an iron horse to an...unsettling horse, Brian Evenson's A Collapse of Horses! (Well, one or two of the stories anyway, but he's an incredibly brilliant horror writer) portersquarebooks.com/book/9781566...

Reposting in case the evening crowd wants in on this!

🕸️ Get ready for a spooktacular read! These frighteningly good books for Grades K–5 will make all your young readers running to the boo-kshelf. 👻📚 #NationalBookMonth #Reading #LiteracyTeaching #HappyHalloween Thank you to our downstairs neighbors at @portersqbooks.bsky.social for fun recommendations!

You take a wrong turn in Kuang's version of hell and you just might end up in The Library of the Unwritten portersquarebooks.com/book/9781984...

Let's take Cursed Under London and go from fun, quirky, undead in England and dress up as very UNFUN Undead in "the colonies" portersquarebooks.com/book/9780062...

We're a little surprised The Goblin Emperor is even going out, but if it does it's going to be COZY AF portersquarebooks.com/book/9780141...

Cinder House is dressing up as an even more gothic house! Oh & we get to recommend a Shirley Jackson so Cinder House is going as House on Haunting Hill! portersquarebooks.com/book/9780143...

You know that one person at the party who has to explain their costume because it's so esoteric & referential? Carmilla would wear one of those: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781952...

Night Circus is kinda already dressed up but it could get EVEN MORE dressed up...as EDWARD GOREY portersquarebooks.com/book/9780762...

Hmmm, I imagine one "labyrinth" would dress up as another, so Piranesi's costume is House of Leaves! portersquarebooks.com/book/9780375...

We're still taking requests for this! Recommendations later this afternoon! (After we've had a chance to think on it)

OK #BookSky for #Halloween let's do a recommendation CHALLENGE! Tell us a favorite book & we'll give it a Halloween costume. E.g. let's say you love..Pygmalian. We'd dress it up as Frankenstein. Moby-Dick? Maybe...Pym! Got it? Hit us up & we'll start giving recs this afternoon!

And also a materialist analysis of how to keep a backwater religious house going in a Middle Ages recession

Look, Sylvia Townsend Warner is amazing. Don't sleep on this, or on Lolly Willowes which is very seasonally appropriate!

tangentially related, looking at my notes from when I read TCTHT and realizing that my mental image of the prioress is literally just Kai Winn, in case any of you trek nerds need a reason to pick it up

It’s a wonder of a novel.

Every now and then I'll remember that, for the value system of the characters, TCTHT contains perhaps the most evil act I've ever read, but it's really just a quick, desperate lie, that you don't think about it that way

also NUNS

The Corner That Held Them is a wonderful, mesmerizing book. My second-favorite novel about a convent.

Don't exactly know why this popped into my head but if anyone on #BookSky is looking for an INCREDIBLE work of historical fiction that kinda shreds a lot of the usual mechanisms of the genre but is also wise & kinda quiet I recommend The Corner that Held Them portersquarebooks.com/book/9781681...

I have "Promote Holiday Bundles" on my to do list so I'm going to do that now NOT ONLY for the serotonin burst of checking a thing of my list BUT ALSO because they make an incredible gift AND I really want to do one for someone. portersquarebooks.com/list/holiday...

Tickets available online and at the door! $5 gets you entry, a raffle ticket, and $5 off a purchase tonight! 🦇

If you’re buying books as gifts anyway, why not do it this way? ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

2025 is different, so we're doing our #GivingTuesday differently this year. We'll be donating 10% of sales from 12-8PM on Tuesday, December 2nd to 5 local nonprofits working to support different aspects of our community. More info & to RSVP (which is not required, but certainly appreciated) 👇

It's all happening on #BookSky