Downtown Books & News

07/25/2025

07/11/2025

Repost! Super lovely tour of the store via 🌈📚
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In the heart of Downtown Asheville, you’ll discover whose name, however on the nose, belies its novelty.

🕯️ Ambience: is a byway for lovers of the obscure. To pair with its bookish loot, is a repository of every and all memorabilia. With the zest of a spinster retiring herself from a life on the road, the place feels curated when it could easily teeter hoarder’s hoshposh. It reads: a life well-lived and dare fancy a look around?
One cannot help but marvel at the brimming displays and trilling decor and overhead bikes that are in fact lighting your leisure way. With a smattering of seating from school desks to departure lounge chic, you are sure to find a snug niche to tuck into your armful of reads.

🎀Attributes: Whether you’re fielding for a pre-loved favorite at a finger-counting deal or a rarity sleeved in glossy plastic,
has a choice pick for you.
Without vision too tunneled and itinerary strapped for time, I suggest a thorough browse. For there are not just one, but three overlarge rooms, winding in shelf and table and freckled in trinket.

With the piqued innocence of a traveler, you’ll regard the blind date book and smile to yourself in agreement- who doesn’t love flannel?? The dedicated zine collection will careen you away from the lifesize cardboard celebrity cutouts. The obscure vinyls and magazines will tempt a fourth hobby to funnel your savings.

🏷️Accommodations: With a public restroom and stocked, magnet-letter adorned fridge, I can think of no cozier place to spend your Saturday. is the type of bookstore that rekindles your love for humanity and inspires you to be zany and weird because that is absolutely the point.

07/05/2025

Heyyyyyyy, have you checked out our magazine racks lately?? We’ve got something for everyone in the fam: dog lovers, outsider artists, anarchist scholars, travel junkies, wave riders, meditators, textile, officionados, gearheads, etc!! …scroll through to see a sampling.

06/28/2025

Local poetry is in the zine section! Hear these folks read on the third Tuesday each month . Check out while you’re at it.

06/26/2025

Who whooo’s coming to our birthday party?!!! On July 1st the bookstore turns 37 🥳 Get 20% off everything (except art on the walls). Spend $150 and get a free t-shirt of your choice. Scroll through to see all of the amazing designs by local artists. It’s gonna be a hoot!!

05/14/2025

10/07/2024

We are temporarily closed for the first time ever due to Hurricane Helene. All our staff are safe and supplied. Both bookstores are free from damage, we are only waiting on utilities to reopen: we will let you know when we do! If you would like to support us please send us your well wishes in the snail mail (which is working just fine) at 67 N. Lexington Ave./28801. We’ll hang them in our window. We are still taking online orders, though they may take a bit longer to process. If you’d like to donate $$$ please consider local mutual aid organizations like . I saw a great list over on feed. Thanks everyone! Also this pic features our on-loan wyrm by

06/30/2024

It’s our birthday tomorrow! 20% off of absolutely everything except the art hanging on the walls for you. You may also have a free balloon. Thank you for supporting us these 🎂36🎂 years.

12/31/2023

We are open 12-3 on New Year’s Day. Happy New Year!

11/20/2023

We are now open 11-6! One hour later through the holiday season. Remember we are open on Thanksgiving (12-4) and Christmas too! 😫 Basically, we are almost always here.

11/16/2023

This is more used in one place than I have ever seen. 🤩 Here’s your chance at an affordable collection.

10/09/2023

We have two new t-shirts to show off! These are the last in a series of re-imagined logos by local Asheville artists (who were paid well and will get repaid for any new orders we make). So support us and support artists too! These two cuties are made by your very own bookseller, Lisa Nance and 🦉All ten shirts are available under the link “artist tshirts” on our homepage: