Socks Socks Socks! We highly recommend our bookish socks as gifts throughout the year! Both in warm and cozy style and standard cotton, and in multiple sizes and themes, these socks can make the most perfect and personal gift. We really like our Edgar Allan Poe...
Psalm of the Wild Baskets Old Town Books now has lovely baskets for your shopping pleasure. We feature baskets in the store, made by hand in Uganda, with 25% off all basket sales going to disadvantaged women and grassroots wildlife conservation efforts in the region....
Puzzles! Looking for the perfect brain teases? Look no further than our Cavalini Vintage Puzzles, in multiple, cool varieties! These wonderful puzzles (500 and 1000 pieces) come in a collectible cylindrical tube, with the pieces held together in a decorative...
Peter Pauper Press Bookmarks Do you have so many current reads that it’s hard to keep track of where you are in each one? This is a common problem among Old Town Books readers, but we have the best prescription for this ailment–Peter Pauper...
Tote Bags! We highly recommend our variety of tote bags. Perfect for any time of the year, our tote bags range from $16 bags that display your passion for reading, $29.99 Hopebags that are both local and hand-crafted, and $10.00 OTB tote bags, so you can rep your...
Hope Dolls! New Addition to Old Town Books! These gorgeous, hand-made Hope Dolls, made by the very talented Hope Garza, make the perfect reading buddy for the littlest readers in your life or for the adult that is still a child at heart!One of our littlest customers...
Weather: A Novel Published February 11, 2020 In her new book Weather, the author Jenny Offill takes us through the Five Stages of Climactic Grief. Said to be “darkly funny and urgent” (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in...
A Long Petal of the Sea Published 2020 A novel from the author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende. This epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place to...
American Dirt Published 2020 Jeanine Cummins’ new novel, American Dirt, is about the ordeal of a Mexican woman who had to leave behind her life and escape as an undocumented immigrant to the United States with her son. “This book is not simply the great...
little gods Published January 14, 2020 Meng Jin is a writer whose sweep is as intimate as it is global. Little Gods is a novel about the heart-wracking ways in which we move through history and time. A fierce and intelligent debut from a writer with longitude and...
Book Thumbs! We are thrilled to announce we now have OTB Book Thumbs! Locally crafted and sourced, these wooden book thumbs are the perfect tool for those looking for a more relaxed reading experience. They are helpful for reading while in the tub or sitting in a...
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains Published February 4, 2020 Ariana Neumann’s new memoir gives her readers a deeply personal and moving story. When TimeStopped is two stories. The first is the story about a woman, the author, who becomes...
The Resisters Published February 4, 2020 Gish Jen’s newest book, The Resisters, is set in the near future in a country called Autoamerica, which isinspired by Orwell’s 1984. In this dystopian world, a young girl named Gwen (a gifted baseball player fromthe lower end...
The Authenticity Project Published 2020 In her most recent book, Clare Pooley gives her readers a fun and uplifting story. In thisbook, Julian Jessop believes that most people are not really honest with each other. With this idea inmind, he leaves a notebook detailing...
Stephen Harrigan Stephen Harrigan has devoted much of his life to exploring and explaining Texas, ever since his familycrossed the Red River from Oklahoma in 1953. He is the author of numerous works of nonfiction andfiction, including the critically acclaimed novels A...
Toni Morrison Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015).She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize in Literature.During her life, she was widely regarded as...
Laila Lalami Laila Lalami is the author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Other Americans, andThe Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and theHurston/Wright Legacy Award. The Moor’s Account was also a...
Animalkind Released 2020 The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life and offer tools for living more kindly toward them. In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about...
R.J. Palacio R.J. Palacio is the author of the Wonder Book series. Placio’s books tell the story of a boy named Auggie who, as the jacket to Wonder states, is “an ordinary kid, with an extraordinary face.” These heartwarming books enable the reader...
Karamo Brown Karamo Brown rose to public attention as the “Culture Expert” on Netflix’s Queer Eye show. With this role, he has tried to make an impact on the lives of others by teaching them valuable lessons in relating to the world around them in a...
