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We are Salem's Indie bookstore, located on the Pedestrian Mall, across from CVS. We stock both new and used books, and locally made gift items, such as candles and soaps. Used books are always 50% off (except for our collection of rare / collectible titles), and we usually have dollar book tables and $5.00 hardcover tables.

 

Best of North Shore Readers' Choice 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021. Salem News Readers' Choice 2019, 2020, 2021

Favorite Salem Titles VIEW LIST (12 BOOKS)
Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
A History of Spiritualism and the Occult in Salem: The Rise of Witch City
In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
Ghosts of Salem: Haunts of the Witch City
Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
Massachusetts Book of the Dead: Graveyard Legends and Lore
The Crucible
The Good Witch's Guide: A Modern-Day Wiccapedia of Magickal Ingredients and Spellsvolume 2
The Penguin Book of Witches
The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem
Wicked Salem: Exploring Lingering Lore and Legends
Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City
Classic Books You Should Revisit VIEW LIST (8 BOOKS)
The Great Gatsby
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Fahrenheit 451
The Bluest Eye
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems
Lord of the Flies
Anti-racism, Civil Rights, Social Justice VIEW LIST (12 BOOKS)
How to Be an Antiracist
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Anniversary)
Between the World and Me
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
So You Want to Talk about Race
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
New Kid
The Hate U Give
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness
Staff Picks VIEW LIST (10 BOOKS)
Station Eleven
A People's History of the United States
The House of the Seven Gables
The Two of Swords: Volume One
A Man Called Ove
Animal Farm
The Scarlet Letter
1984
The Late Bloomers' Club
We Have Always Lived in the Castle: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Recent Fiction Hardback Bestsellers VIEW LIST (8 BOOKS)
Shadows Reel
French Braid
One Italian Summer
The Recovery Agent: A Novelvolume 1
The Paris Apartment
The Diamond Eye
What Happened to the Bennetts
Run, Rose, Run
Recent Nonfiction Hardback Bestsellers VIEW LIST (8 BOOKS)
Sicker in the Head: More Conversations about Life and Comedy
From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation
One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
Salem Lit Fest 2021 VIEW LIST (63 BOOKS)
Aviary
What Are You Going Through
The Vanishing Sky
The Secret Stealers
The Elephant of Belfast
The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds
Hummingbird Salamander
The Lost Apothecary
The Lions of Fifth Avenue
Anna K Away
Cuyahoga
This Terrible Beauty
The End of Aphrodite
The Happiest Girl in the World
The Little French Bridal Shop

VIEW ALL 63 BOOKS
You Should See Me in a Crown Wild Game: My Mother, Her Secret, and Me Wayward Witch

Salem Lit Fest 2020

Eight Books to Read Instead of Watching 'Hillbilly Elegy' VIEW LIST (8 BOOKS)
Road Out of Winter: An Apocalyptic Thriller
Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America
Brass
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle Over Black Lung Disease
Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia (None)
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
Grady Hendrix Summer Scare VIEW LIST (5 BOOKS)
The Final Girl Support Group
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Horrorstor
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
My Best Friend's Exorcism