Bindlestiff Books has reopened

For the next few weeks, we will be open on a limited basis as the city eases out of the “Yellow” period. We ask during this period that all customers wear masks, that no more than 5 customers are in the store at a time, and that customers keep a reasonable distance from other customers. We are minimizing contact for payment by accepting Venmo, and enabling tapping for credit cards that do not require insertion.

We will endeavor to be open the following hours (weekend hours are completely reliable; it might make sense to check weekdays before making a special trip):

Wednesday & Thursday, curbside pick-up only. Please call 215.662.5780 to make sure we have the book (or to arrange for it to be ordered) and arrange for it to be handed off to you. We hope to be open Noon – 7 on these days.

Friday & Saturday, open to customers. Noon – 7. If you prefer, you can phone and arrange curbside pickup.

Sunday, open to customers. Noon – 5. If you prefer, you can phone and arrange curbside pickup.

Bindlestiff Bestsellers

These are our best-selling titles for the last month, in descending order of sales:

Andrea D’Aquino, A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa (picture book)

Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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

Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom: A novel

bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

Leo Lionni, Little Blue and Little Yellow (board book)

Susan Clarke, Piranesi

Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

Leo Lionni, Pezzettino

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

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

adrienne maree brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice 

Mark Stamaty, Who Needs Donuts? (picture book)

Barack Obama, A Promised Land

Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half: A Novel

NK Jemisin, The City We Became

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

Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half: A Novel

Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age

Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

Ursula LeGuin, Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

Jessica Love, Julián at the Wedding

Bell Hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police: A Novel

Sepideh Sarihi, My Favorite Memories (picture book)

Jorge Luis Borges, Everything and Nothing

Innosanta Nagara, A is for Activist (board book)

Frank Herbert, Dune

Zadie Smith, Intimations: Six Essays

Mathieu Pierloot, Look, It’s Raining (picture book)

Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents

Upcoming event celebrates Philly authors; notable books of 2020

Words of Revolution; Words of Solace Join Blue Stoop, a home for Philly writers, on Saturday, December 5 at 7pm for a very exciting event! Purchase your tax-deductible sliding scale ticket here.

Words of Revolution; Words of Solace, is a fully captioned innovative video program produced by award-winning Philadelphia cinematographer Aly Spengler and featuring readings from ten of the most exciting voices writing in and around Philadelphia today: Brittney Cooper, Myriam Gurba, Anne Ishii, Airea Matthews, Trapeta Mayson, Kiley Reid, Nikil Saval, Eric Smith, Amber Sparks, and Elissa Washuta. Featured writers will perform words written by their heroes relevant to the ideas of revolution and of solace. Sit back and settle in!

The National Book Foundation has announced its 2020 awards in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature: https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2020/

The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2020 can be found here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/books/notable-books.html

2021 Calendars

We presently have in Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Nikki McClure calendars, along with Slingshot and We’Moon organizers. The Solidarity Forever labor history calendar will be here by the end of October

Bindlestiff Bestsellers

These are our best-selling titles for the last month, in descending order of sales:

Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom: A novel

bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents

Susan Clarke, Piranesi

Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half: A Novel

Dan Saks, Families Belong (board book)

Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

Leo Lionni, A Color of His Own (board book)

NK Jemisin, The City We Became

Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

Leo Lionni, Pezzettino

Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

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

Matthew Burgess, Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring

Leo Lionni, Little Blue and Little Yellow (board book)

Matthew Cherry, Hair Love

K-5 “Find Philly’s Superheroes” contest

Although Fall 2020 started off differently than past years, one thing hasn’t changed, and that’s the heroes in our homes, community, and neighborhood. The A Book A Day program (which places books in two West Philly schools) wants to hear about the powers that your heroes possess. Ask them what they’re best at and tell us what you learned. You can submit a written and illustrated entry. We also welcome oral storytelling (your audio recording should be up to 3-minutes long). Please visit their website to learn more about the contest and how to submit your work. Application deadline is October 30th, 2020.

Email us at abookadayprogram@gmail.com  

 

• Wordless books will be accepted. There are no limitations on page numbers. Stories can be written in different languages (please prove a translation for our committee.)
• We accept stories written in different languages, as long as translations can be provided.
• Subject line should read: Find Philly’s Superheroes! _[name of student]
• In the email, please include: Student’s name, student’s grade (K-5), title of the story & best way to contact you.
  (*All personal information will be protected. To ensure fairness, judges will not have access to personal information except for the grade of the applicant.)
• Attach images of the storybook. Upload each page as clearly as possible.
• Recorded stories should be up to 3 minutes long. Please send MP3 files.

Contest winners will receive gift certificates to Bindlestiff Books.

Bindlestiff Bestsellers

These are our best-selling titles for the last month, in descending order of sales:

Ibram Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

Zadie Smith, Intimations: Six Essays

Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents

Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half: A Novel

bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

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

Bettina Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

Ibram Kendi, Antiracist Baby

Zetta Elliott, A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart (picture book)

NK Jemisin, The City We Became

Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

Richard Powers, The Overstory: A Novel

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

Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

Mary Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man

Making Worlds reopens

West Philly’s newest bookstore/community space, Making Worlds, is reopening Thursday, Sept. 24. They are at 210 S 45th Street, and are reopening on a limited basis from 3 to 7 pm, Thursday through Sunday.

Bindlestiff Bestsellers

These are our best-selling titles for the last month, in descending order of sales:

Jason Reynolds and Ibram Kendi, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

Ibram Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

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

Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Zadie Smith, Intimations: Six Essays

Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half: A Novel

Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

Kelly Starling Lyons, Going Down Home with Daddy (picture book)

Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Ibram Kendi, Antiracist Baby

Richard Powers, The Overstory: A Novel

Robin Diangelo, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

Neil Gaiman, ed., Unnatural Creatures: Short Stories Selected by Neil Gaiman

Mary Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man

Robert MacFarlane, The Lost Words (picture book)

Zetta Elliott, A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart (picture book)

NK Jemisin, The City We Became

Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Duncan Tonatiuh, Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation (picture book)

Janet Hardy, The Ethical Slut, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love

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

Andrea D’Aquino, A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa (picture book)

N.K. Jemisin, How Long ’til Black Future Month?: Stories

Bindlestiff Bestsellers

These are our best-selling titles for the last month, in descending order of sales:

Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins and Ann Hazzard, Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice

Marc Martin, A River (picture book)

Kimberly Ridley, The Secret Bay (picture book)

Ibram Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

NK Jemisin, The City We Became

Jason Reynolds and Ibram Kendi, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow

Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half: A Novel

Robin Diangelo, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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

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

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Madeline Miller, Circe

Zora Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”

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

Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Gaia Cornwall, Jabari Jumps (picture book)

Samuel Otter, Philadelphia Stories: America’s Literature of Race and Freedom

Tami Charles, Freedom Soup (picture book)

Octavia Butler, Lilith’s Brood

Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Adreienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good 

Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

Closed July 4

Bindlestiff Books will be closed Saturday, July 4. We will be open Sunday, July 5, for curbside orders/pickup only.