Please join me 11/20 for a memorial reading for Esmond Harmsworth, literary friend to many. We’ll be at @portersqbooks.bsky.social. Readers include Jedediah Berry, Lisa Borders, Christopher Castellani, Michelle Hoover, Emily Franklin, Milo Todd, & more. portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-1...

One more bump for the deadline today! Let's make sure we have the best law possible!

Need a gift for a dog lover? A prehistory fan? A kid who feels different? Consider THIS WOLF WAS DIFFERENT! Available anywhere books are sold! Or, order soon through @portersqbooks.bsky.social or @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social, note you want it signed, and I'll personalize it for your recipient!

Here's more info about our #CyberMonday #BlueSkyMonday recommendation fest! December 1st! Right...here? Is this an entity that can be a "here?" Anyway info at link: portersquarebooks.com/bluesky-mond...

BOSTON! CAMBRIDGE! See you tomorrow (Wed) night at @portersqbooks.bsky.social with my friend Laura Venita Green! Discussion will include genre-blending fiction and the terror of creepy dolls. Details at the link: portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-1...

Just reminding you that if you wanted a bookstore to yourself for an hour to get all your holiday shopping done (or just because having a bookstore to yourself is cool!) you can do that this Friday:

UPDATE! Several senators have filed amendments that, if passed, will significantly strengthen the bill! Please urge your senator to vote for Amendments 1, 4, 5, 6, and 18. This must be done before Wednesday, so the sooner the better. More details...1/5

This is on top of the #GivingTuesday we already told you about (RSVPs would be very appreciated!) & the #BlueSkyMonday #CyberMonday recommendation fest, so if it seems like we're posting a little less...we are!

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We haven't got everything buttoned up just yet, but we have some incredible authors joining us for Indies First this year! If you've ever wondered what it would be like to get a book recommendation from an NYT bestseller, well visit us on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Details soooooooon!

zoom zoom! See y'all on Saturday!

Here, something cool to think about! I included Bad Indians Book Club on a store thread, which lead to a connection with the author, which lead to her appearing at our book club on Saturday!

Readers! @daanis.ca author of Bad Indians Book Club will be zooming into to our Decolonize Your Reading Book Club this Saturday to discuss the book with us! If you're not local, you can Zoom in too! Info here:

Hmmmm, this made me think of The Fifth Wall. An artist films the deconstruction of her childhood, allowing a surprisingly deep interrogation of how she lived her life portersquarebooks.com/book/9781574...

Annnnddddd we're back! It'll be a bit before this comes in since dude just got Nobeled BUT one of the many incredible scenes in Seiobo There Below features a long consideration of a stork! portersquarebooks.com/book/9780811...

Always keeping an eye out for opportunities to tell people about Jamaica Kincaid's garden writing! portersquarebooks.com/book/9781250...

Hmmm, don't do a lot of YA but this is giving me Susan Cooper vibes so I'll recommend The Dark is Rising series, one of my all time favs portersquarebooks.com/book/9781665...

Hmmm, inspired by a work of black and white art with a prose that feels geometric while having a fair amount of movement? That would be Danielle Dutton's Sprawl portersquarebooks.com/book/9781940...

Anti-fascist? Connected to the natural world? Maybe some science and magic? Gotta be this newish book about Kurt Vonnegut's politics portersquarebooks.com/book/9781644...

Not *exactly* sure why, but the sense of magic and nature made me think of Fishing for the Little Pike! portersquarebooks.com/book/9781632...

In a first for us, tonight's event in Cambridge with the Raging Women Collective will include flash tattoos! Which reminds me of perhaps my favorite way to recommend books, sooooo, share your tattoo and we'll recommend you a book!

In a first for us, tonight's event in Cambridge with the Raging Women Collective will include flash tattoos! Which reminds me of perhaps my favorite way to recommend books, sooooo, share your tattoo and we'll recommend you a book!

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!