Join us at our events this week: buff.ly/Uu49dTL

Celebrate the New Year at one of our exciting January events! RSVP now to join us: www.strandbooks.com/events.html

Farewell 2025! Hello 2026 and the well-earned retirement our MetroCards will enjoy as bookmarks. #MetroCardFarewell

Come grab a new (or used-but-new-to-you) book for the New Year ✨ Holiday Hours are attached!

Our Jane Austen Tea Party with Brandon Taylor, @egangoonsquad.bsky.social, and @adellewaldman.bsky.social was covered by @latimes.com! buff.ly/MeZu09t

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us here at The Strand! 💫 ❤️

Happy Jólabókaflóð! This Icelandic tradition–literally, the “Christmas Book Flood”–is celebrated by giving books as gifts and then reading together! This custom began after WWII, when paper was one of the only non-rationed commodities, making books the preferred Christmas gift 🎄📚☕️

Author Kiran Desai (r.), whose novel The Loneliness of Sonia and Sonny (Hogarth) was a finalist for this year’s Booker Prize, was in conversation with journalist Razia Iqbal (l.) at New York City’s the Strand on December 4 as part of PEN America’s PEN Out Loud series. (Jasmina Tomic)

Forget someone on your list? @libro.fm audiobook credits make a great gift for your favorite reader. No shipping, no stress. Shop now at buff.ly/nLapbm3

Let us play matchmaker! Our Blind Date With a Book collection feature novels wrapped in art by our very own booksellers, matching readers with their ideal next read.

The Strand in Manhattan hosted a Jane Austen Tea Party, held in celebration of the author’s 250th birthday. The event included a panel discussion and Austen trivia led by authors Brandon Taylor, Jennifer Egan, and Adelle Waldman. The bookstore’s events team also donned Jane Austen–inspired costumes.

Attention New Yorkers! Our Used Book Buying Desk will be closed from 12/25 to 01/01. This means the last day to sell your books before 2026 is this Saturday, 12/20. The Buying Desk will reopen in the new year on Friday, 01/02.

(1/2) TRENDSPOTTING: cowboys, cats, creatures of the deep—no 2025 book trend was too “micro” for us here at The Strand. These books will get you started on a few of our favorite niche genres.

A subscription to one of our eight Book Hookup Quarterly boxes is the perfect gift for the reader who is traveling for the holidays and simply cannot add even one more book to their suitcase. Learn more: buff.ly/5ph1kAS

Last night at @strandbooks.com in Manhattan, playwright John Guare and dramaturg Michael Paller led an engaging discussion on Guare’s remarkable legacy for the stage and the new LOA edition of his work spanning six decades. www.loa.org/books/plays/

Join us on January 13th in celebrating the launch of Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest novel, The School of Night. We're thrilled to host this conversation between Knausgaard and Patricia Lockwood at Kaufman Music Center. Every ticket includes a copy of the book. Details: buff.ly/cnwW8dm

Tonight at @strandbooks.com, join pioneering playwright John Guare and dramaturg Michael Paller for a deep discussion of Guare’s remarkable works for the stage, including Six Degrees of Separation and the House of the Blue Leaves. Click here for tickets: www.strandbooks.com/john-guare-m...

We are thrilled that two of our amazing booksellers, boice-Terrel Allen & Uzodinma Okehi, are recipients of the 2025 James Patterson Holiday Bookstore Bonus! Nominated by their fellow booksellers, then selected by James Patterson & the ABA, there simply could not be two more deserving booksellers.

Why, thank you for thinking of us! We're in great company on this list.

All of your most loved, most requested, most purchased books from 2025, now together on our website ✨ Find all of your favorites: buff.ly/umEcHke

Signed copies of our USA Today Bestseller AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC & A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN are back at @strandbooks.com! Thanks again, lovely Strand staff! Find AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC on 1st floor American History tables & A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN in the Paranormal section! 🖤

Next Monday, 12/15, join prophetic playwright John Guare and dramaturg Michael Paller at @strandbooks.com in New York City for a discussion of Guare’s remarkable works for the stage, newly collected in the LOA series. Purchase tickets and find more info: www.strandbooks.com/john-guare-m...

Our holiday shipping deadlines, for all your last minute gifts ✨🎁 Need ideas? Browse our 2025 gift guide: buff.ly/C7Z8ZnB

New York! Came up to stuff your stockings with signed stock ✨ HOT WAX, IWWV, and GRAVEYARD, check @strandbooks.com @bnunionsqnyc.bsky.social and @mcnallyjackson.bsky.social Soho (and tomorrow some stops in Brooklyn)! #booksky #nyc @simonbooks.bsky.social

Our updated holiday hours are here! ✨📚

We crunched the numbers on your reading habits this year, and the results were... quite insightful. buff.ly/PhBmM9i

The @nytimes.com Top Books of 2025 are here, literally, in our stores and on our website. And we even have signed copies too, from @danielkraus.com, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, and Kiran Desai! buff.ly/aSn9G54

Upcoming Events in December! Ava Reid, Good Noticings, Ethan Hawke, and more!

20% off all online orders today at www.strandbooks.com !!!! Sale ends at midnight EST!

Thanks to everyone @strandbookstore.bsky.social for an incredible event last night, it was everything I could have dreamed of, and more!! To @alexanderchee.bsky.social for the lovely conversation I keep thinking about, all the amazing audience questions, all the writers there, & so many great hugs 💕

Discover our Holiday Gift Guide, filled with hand-picked books, totes, apparel, and more—thoughtfully curated to make gift-giving joyful and effortless this season.

Yes, TERRY DACTYL is in the front window *and* on the Contemporary Bestsellers table @strandbookstore.bsky.social, just in time for my NYC launch at the Strand on Wednesday, November 19th (in conversation with @alexanderchee.bsky.social, please spread the word!!🎉🎉🎉 Masks strongly encouraged💕💕💕

History hasn't been this unhinged... Sam Pinkleton shocks the room with this fun fact! 🛩️ ⛴️ Just a taste of our event with the cast & creatives of "OH, MARY!". Watch the rest of the conversation on our YouTube channel! buff.ly/WLgU5vv

This week’s new releases are sparkling with gems! 🌟 buff.ly/cEPK3lk

David Duchovny discusses poetry and his new book, "About Time," with Jia Tolentino at Strand Books @strandbookstore.bsky.social @jiatolentino.bsky.social youtu.be/2DNwmv0tBUk?...

It's Staff Pick Friday! This time from Malia who recommends PIANO TEACHER by Elfriede Jelinek! ✨

Our October events were full of literary stars and stars writing literature. Swipe through some highlights of the incredible faces that passed through our doors last month and we hope you’ll join us at an event this November! 🥂

What’s this? New Patti Smith? Ft. National Book Award Finalist Bryan Washington? Remixed by Brad Fox’s lost year in the Peruvian Jungle? Plus a thrilling new novel from Oyinkan Braithwaite (author of MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER)? What a week to be in books. www.strandbooks.com/collections/... ✨

Upcoming November events at The Strand 📚 buff.ly/YBfraVt

Step into Fall with our new line of beanies, keychains, and totes. www.strandbooks.com/collections/... 📚 🍂

We're on the front table at The @strandbookstore.bsky.social, NYC! 2 Signed Copies now available! AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION examines real, haunted history through the lens of Gothic Literature! An "Instant USA Today Bestseller!" 🖤👻🖤

Yes, it's the NYC book launch for TERRY DACTYL on November 19, 7 pm @strandbookstore.bsky.social, please spread the word!!🎉🎉🎉 Yes, I'll be in conversation w/ @alexanderchee.bsky.social, get ready💎💎 Masks strongly encouraged, let's take care of one another💕 Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/mattilda-b...

As we head into Hallo-week we’ve got tricks and treats for you: new and recycled essays from Zadie Smith, a reissue of a 1980s gay classic (JACK THE MODERNIST), a novel about friendship and rivalry (THE DEVIL IS A SOUTHPAW), and a crime novel from Danielewski (TOM’S CROSSING). buff.ly/WNO5WUt

Join us for a release event with notable actress Haley Lu Richardson, discussing her new book of poetry I’M SAD AND HORNY. (Sad/sexy clown costumes encouraged!) ✨ buff.ly/yzqGB1Z

We are back with another Staff Pick Friday, this time from Sinead, who recommends EXCITING TIMES by Naoise Dolan! ✨

Did you know that booksellers' pets are the most voracious readers? Like all of us, their tastes are informed by their personal histories and dispositions, and we hope you enjoy this very serious round up of what our pets are reading right now. buff.ly/5y5uNBS

October is bringing us so many of the titles that featured on the most anticipated lists at the beginning of the year, which is really good news because we don’t know if we could have waited much longer for Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss Bye-Bye. Shop all these and more! buff.ly/dgBcfrB

Friends in NYC, there are just a few tickets left for my event with Brandon Taylor. I’d love to see you at the Strand this Friday, 10/24, at 7pm. Chatting with Brandon is one of my favorite things; pretty sure this will be a blast. Get tix here: www.eventbrite.com/e/garth-gree...

Spooky season reads to keep you awake at night, at prices that you can't find anywhere but at The Strand. Hit the link for our full collection of cheap thrills 💀📚🎃 buff.ly/18WAxBn

Join us for an event with Tony Award®-winning director Sam Pinkleton alongside original cast members Hannah Solow and Bianca Leigh as they discuss Cole Escola’s hit Broadway play Oh, Mary! ✨ buff.ly/xlYaCzW