Bindlestiff Bestsellers

A list of our best-selling titles over the past few weeks:

Sara Novic, True Biz

bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

Frank Herbert, Dune

James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed

Karen Kirchhoff, Kohl and Cranberry (a cookbook)

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

Mike Weilbacher, Wild Philly: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Philadelphia

B.J. Novak, The Book with No Pictures

Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

Gianni Rodari, The Book of Whys

Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, The Seventh Man, Birthday Girl, Where I’m Likely to Find It

Emily Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

Doreen Cronin, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (board book)

R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Grace Lin, Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods

Sara Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

J.R.R. Tolkein, The Hobbit

Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

Lucretia Vandyke, African American Herbalism: A Practical Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions

Sumana Roy, How I Became a Tree

Octavia Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories

Becky Chambers, All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries

Ursula Le Guin, Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books

Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea

Sami Tamimi, Falastin: A Cookbook

Closed Easter

Bindlestiff will be closed Sunday, March 31, as our volunteers spend time with their families…

Exploring the Labyrinth with Mark Z. Danielewski

Mark Z. Danielewski will speak at Bryn Mawr College Wednesday, March 27

He is the author of House of Leaves (available at Bindlestiff Books), The Fifty Year Sword, Only Revolutions, The Familiar, and The Little Blue Kite.

Bryn Mawr College, Goodhart Hall Music Room

Reception @ 6 p.m.; Event / Book Signing @ 6.30 p.m. Free and open to all

Temporary Hours

Our schedule will be a bit rough for the next couple of weeks as we work in some new volunteers.

You should be able to rely upon us being open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from Noon – 7pm, and Sundays from Noon – 5.

We expect to be open at least partial hours on Mondays, Wednesdays (most commonly Noon – 3:30) and Fridays (most commonly 3:30 – 7), but it might make sense to call (215.662.5780) before making a special trip.

Temporary Hours

We are presently adjusting to changes in our volunteers’ work schedules, and so our schedule may be a bit erratic for the next few weeks.

Mondays, we are experimenting with being open Noon – 3:30

Tuesdays should be reliable, Noon – 7

Wednesdays are presently the day we are having the most difficulty scheduling. It might make sense to call (215.662.5780) before making a special trip.

Thursdays are not quite as reliable as Tuesdays, but we should be open the vast majority of our Noon – 7 schedule.

Fridays should be reliable Noon – 3:30, and we will often have coverage later.

Saturdays, we should always be open Noon -7; Sundays, Noon – 5.

We will update this post as schedules resolve…

Bindlestiff Bestsellers

Mike Weilbacher, Wild Philly: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Philadelphia

Paloma Valdivia, Nosotros Means Us: Un cuento bilingüe (picture book)

Matt de la Peña, Retazos (picture book)

James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Rashid Khalidi, Hundred Years’ War on Palestine

Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

Baby Penguin: Finger Puppet Book

Sean Sherman, The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen

Justin Torres, Blackouts: A Novel

RF Kuang, Yellowface: A Novel

David Graeber, Dawn of Everything

Jessica Fern and David Cooley, Polywise: A Deeper Dive Into Navigating Open Relationships

Claire Lispector, Complete Stories

Grace Lin, Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods

Robin Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel

Octavia Butler, Wild Seed (Patternist (1))

Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War

Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch: A Novel

James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

Kai Cheng Thom, From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea (picture book)

Ann Leckie, Translation State (Imperial Radch)

Emma Cline, The Guest: A Novel

Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

Amy Stewart, The Drunken Botanist

Randall Munroe, Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel

Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, The Seventh Man, Birthday Girl, Where I’m Likely to Find It

Hugh Ryan, The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

Sarah Maas, Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses)

Lawrence Millman, Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore

Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed

Angela Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

Read banned books

An epidemic of book banning continues across the country, including in many Pennsylvania school districts. Bindlestiff Books is proud to carry several titles that have drawn the ire of book banners (the numbers are too vast for us to carry them all)…

Holiday Hours

Bindlestiff will be open Noon – 7 Wednesday, Dec. 27 through Saturday, Dec. 30, except that we may be closed Friday, 12/29 (we’re still working on finalizing staffing). (We may have limited hours on Tuesday) We will likely be closed New Year’s Eve (Dec. 31)…

We hope to receive a shipment Wednesday that will restock several titles that sold out last week.

Bindlestiff Best-Sellers

These are our best-selling titles for the last month:

James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Ana Matsusaki, The Collector of Heads (picture book)

bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

Carmen Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

Gideon Sterer, It Began with Lemonade (picture book)

Jordan Peele, editor, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

Jian Li, Bronze Dog: A Story in English and Chinese (picture book)

Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

Abby Hanlon, Dory Fantasmagory: Can’t Live Without You

Jen Beagin, Big Swiss: A Novel

Mariame Kaba, Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

R F Kuang, Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution

Ivy Noelle Weir, Anne of West Philly: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Anne of Green Gables

Diane Wynn Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

T Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir

Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

Naomi Oreskes, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market

Nani Brunini, Disagreement (picture book)

C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

Lucretia Vandyke, African American Herbalism: A Practical Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions

Jessica Love, Julián Is a Mermaid (picture book)

Mid-Autumn Chinatown Book Sale

A wide variety of Asian, Asian-American & Pacific Island-themed and authored books — children’s books, cookbooks, fiction, graphic novels, history, etc. — will be available.