We are closed Dec. 25.
Saturday, Dec. 26: We will be open Noon – 7
Sunday, Dec. 27: Noon – 5
Closed Monday and Tuesday
Wednesday, Dec. 30: Noon – 7
Thursday, Dec. 31: Noon – 3:30 (and possibly later)
Friday, Jan. 1: Closed
We are closed Dec. 25.
Saturday, Dec. 26: We will be open Noon – 7
Sunday, Dec. 27: Noon – 5
Closed Monday and Tuesday
Wednesday, Dec. 30: Noon – 7
Thursday, Dec. 31: Noon – 3:30 (and possibly later)
Friday, Jan. 1: Closed
Bindlestiff Books plays a starring role in a short film promoting the debut novel by Philadelphian Elizabeth Green, Confessions of a Curious Bookseller. The book is set in a used bookstore in the “heart of West Philadelphia,” steps from Clark Park. In the film our store plays the part of the used bookstore (though of course we have never sold used books), and the author plays the part of the proprietor of said store. The novel itself is epistolary, told through email messages, journal entries and tweets that chronicle her battles to keep the store open and reboot her life. We have the book in stock, you can find the film here.
These are our best-selling titles for the last month, in descending order of sales:
Barack Obama, A Promised Land
Andrea D’Aquino, A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa (picture book)
adrienne maree brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom: A novel
Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands: A Novel
N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became
Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults
Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents
Innosanta Nagara, A is for Activist (board book)
Roman Mars, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half: A Novel
Jessica Love, Julián at the Wedding
Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age
Madeleine Miller, Circe
Carmen Machado, In the Dream House: A Memoir
bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Brit Bennett, The Mothers: A Novel
Dan Pilkey, Cat Kid Comic Club
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
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
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
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
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
Contest winners will receive gift certificates to Bindlestiff Books.
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
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.