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It's been a couple of months since we've checked in with you guys so we wanted to share our thoughts on our last few months of reading. Merrilee: In Febuary we read Listening is an Act of Love, edited by Dave Isay. I love reading about other peoples' lives, but sometimes a whole memoir is just … Continue reading Updates From The Stranger Than Fiction Book Club
BookPeople is proud to partner with the Austin American-Statesman for our monthly Statesman Selects program. Each month, we get together to select one book you absolutely must not miss. The Statesman Selects pick for March is the debut novel by Austin author Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau. Pick up a copy of the Statesman on Sunday, March 22 to read … Continue reading Statesman Selects: HAUSFRAU
Quite a long time ago, 150 years in fact, down down down the rabbit hole little Alice went, and when she came out again she was not the same person as went in. Not at all! Her curiously wonderful journey, filled with as many rash impulses and poor choices as any adolescent's life could possibly be, … Continue reading 150 Years of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland at The Ransom Center
The Devil's Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth Reviewed by Raul It is uncanny how a writer can so easily create a work that revitalizes a genre and sends it in a new direction simultaneously leading the reader on a breathless chase after clues that reassert the book's place as a solid detective mystery. And this … Continue reading Book Review: The Devil’s Detective
Fearfully huddled together for the indefinable comfort of human contact in the middle of the haunted BookPeople coffee shop, the Nightmare Factory Book Club listened, quivering mostly with terror but a little from the indefinable thrill of human contact, as something powerful knocked over the bookshelves. The candelabras on the tables flickered and blew out … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory Reads Shirley Jackson’s Classic The Haunting of Hill House
The National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced in a ceremony at the New School in New York City last night. In addition to the winners in the six categories listed below, Toni Morrison received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award and Phil Klay (here in the store tonight!) received the John Leonard Prize for Redeployment. Since 1974, National Book … Continue reading 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
Margaret Atwood's first stand-alone novel in fifteen years, The Heart Goes Last, hits shelves in September. The book's publisher, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, revealed the cover this week. What do you think? According to Publisher's Weekly, The Heart Goes Last, "...tells the story of Charmaine and Stan, a couple living in their car and surviving almost entirely … Continue reading Margaret Atwood Cover Reveal
It's YA lucky day! It's Teen Thursday! Where we bring you YA news from around the globe and highlights from the BookPeople Teen Press Corps! March Buzz Book: We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach What the Teen Press Corps Is Saying: "Tommy Wallach does a superb job representing classic young adult figures and joining … Continue reading Teen Thursday 3/12/15
Tuesday night, at our standing-room-only launch event with Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, we announced that Barefoot Dogs is our next Trust Fall pick! This debut collection of stories from Camacho, an Austin author, tells the story of a Mexican family from the different perspectives of its members. Booksellers Raul and Jim B. both read early copies of the book and … Continue reading Announcing Trust Fall #3: BAREFOOT DOGS
Love BookPeople? Love books? Come work with us! BookPeople is the largest independent bookstore in Texas. During our more than forty-year history, we have gained national recognition and become an iconic Austin destination. From our beginnings in 1970 as a small new age bookstore in West Campus called Grok Books to our current downtown location, … Continue reading We’re Hiring! Bookseller Positions Available
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