happy 50th birthday to us!
We are so excited to offer lots of fun programs, events, & other special surprises during 2025. be sure to check back in to this page as we plan out more!
book of the month club
(& meet ups!)
We asked what our community wanted to see us offer and Book of the Month club & Book Clubs were the two biggest responses! We have combined these two ideas with Book of the Month & BofM Meet Ups! Each month (February - November) we will feature a different book that will be 10% off. We have a variety of genres represented throughout the year!
The last Thursday of each month, we will open the store for folks to come and talk about the book while enjoying some complimentary snacks & warm drinks. Please note we will have to cap the attendance, as we only have so much room in the store. You will need to sign up for the Meet Up in advance with a bookseller. Sign ups will open at the beginning of each month for that meet up. Please use the Contact form, call in, or speak with a bookseller at the store to be added to the list!
We hope that folks will make new friends with similar reading interests at these events and create their own book clubs afterward! We love to facilitate these connections, but don’t have it within our capacity to run book clubs on our own.
april 2025 Book of the month:
‘you are here: poetry in the natural world’ edited by Ada Limón
Meet up april 24th 2025: Join us in store 5:30pm-7pm
*SIGN up is today!
Bookstore bingo
Celebrate reading with this fun BoG Reading Challenge!
Read books for the prompts given to win coupons or to be entered into the grand prize!
There are three levels & each participant is eligible for one prize (or prize entry):
1. Fill in one row and win 10% off a book
2. Fill in two rows and win 20% off two books
3. Fill in the entire card and be entered to win a Bookstore Tote filled with bookish goodies!
Pick up a Bingo Card in store to play!
*While we would love for your entry books to be from The Bookstore, we also encourage library reading, audiobook listening with Libro.fm, ebook or book purchase through Bookshop.org, or through supporting for our fellow indie bookshops - we want folks to participate in whatever way they can!
50th Anniversary linocut art by suze collinson!
We commissioned local artist & former bookstore employee suze collinson to make a special piece to mark this big year. merch coming soon!
special bookstore art wall
some of our artistic friends contributed pieces to this special art wall!
Anniversary poem by john ronan
gloucester’s former poet laureate has written a poem to mark our 50th! thank you john!
(click on the image for a pdf of the poem)
John Ronan reads his poem ‘Bookstore Bound’ | April 4th 2025 - Bookstore Open House Party
