We turned 50 in 2025!
We are so grateful to our community that has kept us open for 50 years! we had lots of fun specials, programs, parties, and merch sales in honor of our anniversary. Here’s a look at some of what we did in 2025:
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.
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 & BotM 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.
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.
We are continuing book of the month beyond 2025! visit our Book of the month page to stay up to date…
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!
*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!
Congrats to our Bingo winner and thanks to all who took a card and participated.
Special 50th Tote Bags
Available in store now! Special Tote Bags with commissioned art by Suze Collinson.
BoG T-Shirts & Hoodies!
We made limited edition hoodies and t-shirts with the beautiful linocut print artwork by Suze Collinson. Thanks to all who bought merch!!
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
