FOBB Friends of Books & Books We’re grateful to our supporters who founded Friends at Books & Books with this original letter. Their directive is clear below. Please use this letter as a model to send to your own friends with a personal message. Thank you!! SAMPLE LETTER, please feel free to make it your...

We are thrilled to announce that The Café at Books & Books is open for pickup and delivery!  Call us at 786-405-1745 at the ARSHT CENTER Starting Friday May 1st Hours: Monday-Saturday, 12pm-9pm Call us at 305-448-9599 in CORAL GABLES Starting Monday, May 4th Hours: Monday-Sunday, 11am-8pm   VIEW ARSHT MENU HERE VIEW CORAL GABLES...

    Our stores may have closed their doors, but we need your support now more than ever. As you work your way through your TBR pile and hunker down please consider supporting your local independent bookstore. Each purchase makes a big difference. To those who have already made a purchase with us, we thank...

Dear Friends & Readers, Although a heartbreaking and difficult decision to make, tomorrow we will be closing all of our stores and café. The community we have built over the years seems especially precious right now, but clearly this is the right thing for us to do. On March 31st, we will re-assess what the future will look...

  Check out our very own Mitchell Kaplan at the premiere for All the Bright Places in L.A. this past week. All the Bright Places is produced by the Mazur Kaplan Company and based on the internationally bestselling novel by Jennifer Niven.  All The Bright Places (Buy the Book Here) tells the story of Violet Markey...

  The American Library Association (ALA) announced the top books, video and audio books for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Newbery and Printz awards – at its Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Here are a list of the finalists: John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature:   New Kid written by...

It’s the time of year when we’re all looking forward to what great books are coming down the pipe in the time laid out before us. What kind of literary gems will the next twelve months offer? Contemporary Indigenous writers are some of the most exciting literary artists at work today, and there are quite...

Prepare yourself for a multi-year, multi-book adventure, because you’re going to love these characters and their worlds. Stumbling across B Is for Burglar, the second book in Sue Grafton’s beloved Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries, brought me back into the crime fiction fold in my 20s. Once I read all of Grafton’s books, I devoured Janet...

Did you catch the last episode of The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan? This week, we kick off the new year with a list of books we’re excited about coming out in 2020. LISTEN HERE  “2020 will see many wonderful books being published. Today I‘m joined by three of the greatest readers around, who have...