Sorry x

Non-basic literary inspired Halloween costumes: 🍖 Scout dressed as a ham 💅 The Suriel 🐶 Nellie Nelson ✨ Shai-Hulud 👁️ Count Olaf 🍊 A jar of marmalade 🦎 Mr Sir 👾 A morlock ⬛️ The monolith 🩸 Lestat 🏛️ Circe 🤚 Matthew Macfadyen’s hand

New releases! Which one would you pick? 😍

Book people coming up with new reasons to get more books:

October watchlist… What are we missing? 🎬 ✨ Practical Magic 💅🏻 Death Becomes Her 🪲 Beetlejuice 🔨 The Shining 🔥 Hereditary 🪩 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 🖤 The Addams Family 🐷 Carrie 🩸 Interview with the Vampire 🧙🏼‍♀️ Hocus Pocus 🤡 IT 🧠 Get Out 🌙 American Werewolf in London 🪦 Pet Semetary

Shakespeare would be proud x

You’re not hoarding books, you’re maintaining a carefully curated personal library for future generations

‘So you’re on a desert island and you can only take one book-‘ … No thank you.

“You look happier!” Thanks, I bought myself a book.

Goodbye brat summer, hello book summer 😎

You deserve a new book and an early finish Really meant to post this earlier

move over hot girl summer, it’s time for sweaty stressed girl who just wants to read her book in the shade summer

You know what, standard baskets can’t handle the average book shopper. We need trolleys or wagons, maybe a fleet of golf carts

Seeing a lot of ‘get ready with me’ videos but they never include a book? You’re telling us you’re going out and not taking a book? 🤔

FYI when we say ‘ugh where did summer go/how is it still raining/oh such a shame it’s grey today’ We really mean ‘what a great excuse to cancel plans/reading to the sound of rain is so cosy/can’t wait to get home to my book’ 🤗

Never seen Stanley Tucci and Harlan Coben in the same room. Just saying.

For the first time ever we are offering our customers the chance to receive a £10 eGift card when you spend £75 on in-stock items online from 23-26 May. Use the code 75FOR10 Details here: www.waterstones.com/help/egift-c...

Trying to manifest dreamy summer reading vibes by wearing linen optimistically and currently shivering my way through May

In breaking news, books are the must-have accessory this season*. *and every season 😍

You know we like nothing better than to joke around on here but last night we won Book Retailer of the Year - and that’s no joke. Have asked boss for the rest of the day off. Thinking I should have gone rest of the week

You might think bookshops have nothing to do with the Met Gala, but you would be mistaken... Presenting, the 2025 #MetGala Looks to Books!!! ✨ Part 1/6

Writing experts: 'Show don't tell' Shakespeare characters: 'Hello it is me, the villain of the play'

Far be it for us to be crass and try to sell you anything but you do realise that this weekend we’re offering Double Plus Stamps in shops and online? Not a member? Now’s the time to join: www.waterstones.com/Plus

If we could surprise announce a new book from any author, who would it be? And why is it Donna Tartt?

Accidentally said ‘enjoy the rest of your days’ at the end of a zoom and now I guess I’ve threatened an entire department

Reading is therapy, but sometimes the reading makes you need therapy. Not naming any names… SUZANNE COLLINS 😭

It’s been 12 years since The Goldfinch was released… Donna Tartt, please give us something, literally ANYTHING. We’ll take your shopping list at this point

We posted this on TikTok, there’s a whole Tea Time Alarm trend there at the moment which is based on Americans believing anything, but now everyone believes there’s a big book announcement coming and we don’t know what to do. Help @barnesandnoble.com

Unfortunately my nervous system can’t tell the difference between being held at gun point and being asked what a book I absolutely loved is about

If you’re reading this you should take the rest of the day off and spend it with your book ❤️

Forget nudes, send them your TBR

Opening a fascinating window into the unique mind and talent of one of literature’s greatest enigmas, THE LAND OF SWEET FOREVER is the remarkable posthumous collection of Harper Lee's writing spanning both her short fiction and non-fiction. Exclusive Edition: www.waterstones.com/book/the-lan...

If books have nothing to do with the #Oscars, explain THIS 👇

New releases! Which one would you pick? 😍

Dear celebrities, please keep dressing up as books because this is the best bit of our job 🤩

Today is a great day to buy yourself a new book

Celebrities are dressing as books and we’re here for it ✨

Introducing our newest bookseller! References were a bit patchy but has huge passion for translated fiction and fluorescent green books so we can’t imagine anything will go wrong 💚 @duolingoverde.bsky.social

I see skies of grey And clouds of grey The grey blessed day The grey sacred night And I think to myself What a wonderful excuse to make another cup of tea and get cozy with my book.

They don’t want flowers, they want an all-expenses-paid trip to the bookshop

Can we just say that your incredible response to our Waterstones Children’s Book Prize shortlist announcement yesterday warmed us right to the core. You’re all amazing 🥰

The spectacular shortlist for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2025 is here! 🥳 Chosen by booksellers across the country, there's magic on every page, whatever their age. Discover the amazing shortlisted authors and illustrators here: bit.ly/3w9ZuZb #WCBP25

Big day tomorrow. We share our Children’s Book Prize shortlist. Which leads us to ask: what book did you read as a child that blew your mind? 🤯

Celebrities are deliberately dressing as books and you can’t change our mind

February Finally

It’s Friday, it’s the last day of the month, our bookshops are full of books and if we sell them all then I get to clock off early - so, you know, go wild…

When the going gets tough, go to the bookshop ❤️

How can it possibly still be January?

Oh Monday, you’re hard enough as it is…

If you’re reading this, you deserve a new book.