If you borrowed a book from someone years ago and think they’ve forgotten that you have it, trust me… THEY HAVEN’T

Harry Styles is back! How many of these 22 book covers can you identify? 🪩✨

If celebrities aren’t dressing as books then explain this:

Presenting, the 2026 #criticschoice #lookstobooks! ✨ First up, Odessa A'zion with STARSIDE by Alex Aster, plus Meg Stalter and Paul W. Downs with DEATH AND DEJA VU by Ian Moore 🧡

What’s in and what’s out for 2026… book edition! ✨

SALE STARTS NOW!!! Up to 50% off RRP: www.waterstones.com/campaign/sal...

Congrats to everyone who finished their Christmas shopping early, good luck to those racing the clock today and remember, a book is ALWAYS a good idea x

Which Pride & Prejudice adaptation is better, the BBC's 1995 TV series or the 2005 film? 🍿

Christmas movie watchlist… What are we missing? 🎬 🍭 Elf 👨🏻‍🏫 The Holdovers 👒 Little Women 😱 Home Alone 🛋️ The Apartment 🦞 Love Actually 💚 How the Grinch Stole Christmas 🦄 Step Brothers 🦸🏼‍♂️ Jingle All the Way 🎅🏼 Klaus 🧣 The Holiday 🕷️ Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang 🔫 Die Hard 🐩 Edward Scissorhands

Think you can trust your favourite authors? THINK AGAIN! 😱

Absolutely thrilled to announce that this season’s must have accessory is once again ✨ a book ✨

This is a perfectly reasonable response and you shouldn’t let anyone tell you any different x

The moment we've all been waiting for has arrived... Get DOUBLE (TRIPLE WHEN YOU SPEND OVER £100!!!) PLUS STAMPS from now until midnight Monday 🤩 Not a Plus member? Sign up here for free: www.waterstones.com/plus

Loved by booksellers and readers from day one, THE ARTIST by Lucy Steeds is our #BookOfTheYear 2025 & THE CAFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS by Mikey Please is our Children's #BookOfTheYear! 🎉 & Gift of the Year is Tim Siadatan's PADELLA! 🎁 Find them here: www.waterstones.com/category/cul...

To everyone who has been forced to leave their natural habitat (aka under a blanket with a book and a cup of tea) this morning, well done. You deserve a sweet treat.

New releases! Which one would you pick? 😍

How many can you get? Guess the film (book adaptations only) from the emojis: 1. 🥊♣️ 2. 🏹🖕🐦‍⬛🔥 3. 🕰️🍊 4. 🏨🏔️🥃🪓🚪🩸🥶 5. ☝️🪽↗️🐦🪺 6. 🚆🟠 7. 💰🤵🏼🍸🎇🚘☠️ 8. 🧪🦋⚡️🫀🍁 9. 🏨🥶🩸 10. 🤏👩🏻👩🏻‍🦳👩🏻‍🦰👧🏼 11. ⛲️👗💔🏥💣🚇😭 12. 👮🏻‍♂️🐭☕️✨🔋 13. 🍫 14. ⏅ 🎈🤡 15. 🧑🏻🍞🦆☹️👟🎶🎄

True story x

'If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word' Happy birthday Margaret Atwood! Novelist, essayist, poet, activist, inventor, occasional puppeteer and full time genius - few writers have shaped our imaginations quite like her: waterstones.com/author/marga... 🥳

NEWS JUST IN! A new book will in fact solve all your problems

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Yeah, sex is cool, but have you ever completed the Hidden Books Game? 20 books to name, can you grab the glory (and maybe even a £500 book token)? hiddenbooks.nationalbooktokens.com?competition=22

THIS IS WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA WAS MADE FOR

If you see this post you deserve a new book 🤗

Them: You have too many books Me:

New paperbacks! Which one would you pick? 😍

Me pretending to be shocked when the enemies become lovers in the book I specifically bought for the enemies to lovers plot:

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