Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston
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We're a fiercely independent bookstore with locations in Cambridge & Boston. On BlueSky we focus on introducing you to books & authors you're unlikely to encounter otherwise. Here are the books we're excited about at the moment!
We're a fiercely independent bookstore with locations in Cambridge & Boston. On BlueSky we focus on introducing you to books & authors you're unlikely to encounter otherwise. Here are the books we're excited about at the moment!
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Yay for small businesses helping their communities!!! 😃 Just stopped in to shop! (And to sign copies of my picture books, so you know, if you wanna snag a signed copy of THIS WOLF WAS DIFFERENT or I, ROCK: A GEOLOGY TALE, this would be a wonderful time to stop by the PSB Cambridge store!)
Yes, I know, yet another #GivingTuesday post, but I hope you'll brave whatever the weather ends up being and come see us today. 10% of sales after noon will be donate to 5 local organizations doing important work in our community.
Giving Tuesday
We know this year, for many different reasons, members of our community are having to make difficult decisions about where to spend their often increasingly limited money, wanting to support the causes that matter to them and the people in their lives that matter to them.
We hope our Giving Tuesday program will make it a little easier for you by giving you a chance to do several things at once with the same spending; getting a great gift for someone you care about, supporting organizations doing great work in your community, and keeping your local fiercely independent bookstore going.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Yay for small businesses helping their communities!!! 😃 Just stopped in to shop! (And to sign copies of my picture books, so you know, if you wanna snag a signed copy of THIS WOLF WAS DIFFERENT or I, ROCK: A GEOLOGY TALE, this would be a wonderful time to stop by the PSB Cambridge store!)
A little December rain never hurt anyone!* Come see us today & support 5 great local nonprofits.
*Ok December rain has actually probably hurt a lot of people now that I think about it, but you can take the necessary precautions
*Ok December rain has actually probably hurt a lot of people now that I think about it, but you can take the necessary precautions
Yes, I know, yet another #GivingTuesday post, but I hope you'll brave whatever the weather ends up being and come see us today. 10% of sales after noon will be donate to 5 local organizations doing important work in our community.
Giving Tuesday
We know this year, for many different reasons, members of our community are having to make difficult decisions about where to spend their often increasingly limited money, wanting to support the causes that matter to them and the people in their lives that matter to them.
We hope our Giving Tuesday program will make it a little easier for you by giving you a chance to do several things at once with the same spending; getting a great gift for someone you care about, supporting organizations doing great work in your community, and keeping your local fiercely independent bookstore going.
portersquarebooks.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A little December rain never hurt anyone!* Come see us today & support 5 great local nonprofits.
*Ok December rain has actually probably hurt a lot of people now that I think about it, but you can take the necessary precautions
*Ok December rain has actually probably hurt a lot of people now that I think about it, but you can take the necessary precautions
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As a reminder, if you're in the Boston area and want to get some books today, you can support some amazing local orgs... including us! 💜
Yes, I know, yet another #GivingTuesday post, but I hope you'll brave whatever the weather ends up being and come see us today. 10% of sales after noon will be donate to 5 local organizations doing important work in our community.
Giving Tuesday
We know this year, for many different reasons, members of our community are having to make difficult decisions about where to spend their often increasingly limited money, wanting to support the causes that matter to them and the people in their lives that matter to them.
We hope our Giving Tuesday program will make it a little easier for you by giving you a chance to do several things at once with the same spending; getting a great gift for someone you care about, supporting organizations doing great work in your community, and keeping your local fiercely independent bookstore going.
portersquarebooks.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
As a reminder, if you're in the Boston area and want to get some books today, you can support some amazing local orgs... including us! 💜
Yes, I know, yet another #GivingTuesday post, but I hope you'll brave whatever the weather ends up being and come see us today. 10% of sales after noon will be donate to 5 local organizations doing important work in our community.
Giving Tuesday
We know this year, for many different reasons, members of our community are having to make difficult decisions about where to spend their often increasingly limited money, wanting to support the causes that matter to them and the people in their lives that matter to them.
We hope our Giving Tuesday program will make it a little easier for you by giving you a chance to do several things at once with the same spending; getting a great gift for someone you care about, supporting organizations doing great work in your community, and keeping your local fiercely independent bookstore going.
portersquarebooks.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Yes, I know, yet another #GivingTuesday post, but I hope you'll brave whatever the weather ends up being and come see us today. 10% of sales after noon will be donate to 5 local organizations doing important work in our community.
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This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
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Title alone is 10/10
And now here's our big old thread of nonfiction! Winner of the National Book Award, if the world could be saved by a journalist's razor sharp precision & a novelist's sense of style & narrative alone, El Akkad would not have had to write this book. But he did. And we need to read it.
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet has been viewed more than 10 million times.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Title alone is 10/10
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if you follow me for weird visual art stuff you need I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always
How about a couple really ambitious poetry collections from this year?
I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always: portersquarebooks.com/book/9798891...
and
Algarabia: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781644...
I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always: portersquarebooks.com/book/9798891...
and
Algarabia: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781644...
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
if you follow me for weird visual art stuff you need I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always
Alright, friends. Stepping away from the computer for a bit but feel free to keep sending in requests. The #CyberMonday books will be on sale all week & if I can't get to every request today, I'll catch up later. Thank you!
Happy #BlueSkyMonday! Our version of #CyberMonday but, with, like cool book recommendations rather than gross algorithm driven sales. So we'll be giving out recommendations ALL DAY & all recommendations will be 10% off. Make your requests now or just watch for posts throughout the day!
#BlueSkyMonday
On Monday December 1, our skyline will be ablaze with threads, replies, and quotes recommending great books for the holidays.
And every book we recommend, whether it's part of a big old thread or a specific recommendation for a reader, will be 10% off for the week.
portersquarebooks.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Alright, friends. Stepping away from the computer for a bit but feel free to keep sending in requests. The #CyberMonday books will be on sale all week & if I can't get to every request today, I'll catch up later. Thank you!
How about a couple really ambitious poetry collections from this year?
I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always: portersquarebooks.com/book/9798891...
and
Algarabia: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781644...
I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always: portersquarebooks.com/book/9798891...
and
Algarabia: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781644...
December 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
How about a couple really ambitious poetry collections from this year?
I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always: portersquarebooks.com/book/9798891...
and
Algarabia: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781644...
I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always: portersquarebooks.com/book/9798891...
and
Algarabia: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781644...
Keep the requests coming, but I might just hype some other books I love, too. I mean, who's going to stop me? By treating childcare as worthy of the deep thought of literature The Long Form is revolutionary. Also just deeply wise portersquarebooks.com/book/9781948...
December 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Keep the requests coming, but I might just hype some other books I love, too. I mean, who's going to stop me? By treating childcare as worthy of the deep thought of literature The Long Form is revolutionary. Also just deeply wise portersquarebooks.com/book/9781948...
Did you know there is a mystery series featuring Abigail Adams? Anyway the one by Woody Holton seems to be definitive: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781416... but I also want to give nod to Cokie Roberts's Founding Mothers portersquarebooks.com/book/9780060...
Can you recommend a good biography of Abigail Adams?
December 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Did you know there is a mystery series featuring Abigail Adams? Anyway the one by Woody Holton seems to be definitive: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781416... but I also want to give nod to Cokie Roberts's Founding Mothers portersquarebooks.com/book/9780060...
OK #BookSky I've got to convince a toddler to take a nap, but then I'll be back to get through all your recommendation requests!
Happy #BlueSkyMonday! Our version of #CyberMonday but, with, like cool book recommendations rather than gross algorithm driven sales. So we'll be giving out recommendations ALL DAY & all recommendations will be 10% off. Make your requests now or just watch for posts throughout the day!
#BlueSkyMonday
On Monday December 1, our skyline will be ablaze with threads, replies, and quotes recommending great books for the holidays.
And every book we recommend, whether it's part of a big old thread or a specific recommendation for a reader, will be 10% off for the week.
portersquarebooks.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
OK #BookSky I've got to convince a toddler to take a nap, but then I'll be back to get through all your recommendation requests!
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Great suggestions. Shop small and indie!
We know that, for a ton of reasons, a lot of folks don't have as much to spend as they'd like this holiday season. Sooooooo, here's a thread of things you can do that will support your local indie bookstore or other business WITHOUT spending any more than you intended...
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Great suggestions. Shop small and indie!
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Don't know what else I can do to convince you to read One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, but it's 10% off this week at PSB. Book of the year, easy.
And now here's our big old thread of nonfiction! Winner of the National Book Award, if the world could be saved by a journalist's razor sharp precision & a novelist's sense of style & narrative alone, El Akkad would not have had to write this book. But he did. And we need to read it.
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet has been viewed more than 10 million times.
portersquarebooks.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Don't know what else I can do to convince you to read One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, but it's 10% off this week at PSB. Book of the year, easy.
I wouldn't leave them unsupervised with this, but this book from Make Magazine could be a lot of fun! portersquarebooks.com/book/9780596...
Any thoughts for a middle-high schooler starting an interest in chemistry? Maybe with home-friendly experiments? He's looking toward nuclear chemistry eventually, but hasn't had h.s. calc or physics yet.
December 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I wouldn't leave them unsupervised with this, but this book from Make Magazine could be a lot of fun! portersquarebooks.com/book/9780596...
And now here's our big old thread of nonfiction! Winner of the National Book Award, if the world could be saved by a journalist's razor sharp precision & a novelist's sense of style & narrative alone, El Akkad would not have had to write this book. But he did. And we need to read it.
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet has been viewed more than 10 million times.
portersquarebooks.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
And now here's our big old thread of nonfiction! Winner of the National Book Award, if the world could be saved by a journalist's razor sharp precision & a novelist's sense of style & narrative alone, El Akkad would not have had to write this book. But he did. And we need to read it.
If you're looking for something that digs into the emotional lives of the characters Northern Spy: portersquarebooks.com/book/9780735...
For politics & power Oromay: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781641...
Less famous spy master Len Deighton portersquarebooks.com/book/9780802...
For politics & power Oromay: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781641...
Less famous spy master Len Deighton portersquarebooks.com/book/9780802...
December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If you're looking for something that digs into the emotional lives of the characters Northern Spy: portersquarebooks.com/book/9780735...
For politics & power Oromay: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781641...
Less famous spy master Len Deighton portersquarebooks.com/book/9780802...
For politics & power Oromay: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781641...
Less famous spy master Len Deighton portersquarebooks.com/book/9780802...
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This was a really cool book. Loved the fresh fantasy setting and the characters were very fun and interesting. And a murder mystery to boot!
An intriguing Holmes & Watson style mystery set in a world of genetically manipulated plants, animals, and other. Both familiar and surprising, The Tainted Cup is yet another argument that Robert Jackson Bennett is one of the best in the business right now.
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
HUGO AWARD WINNER • WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A Holmes and Watson–style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from acclaimed author Robert Jackson Bennett
“Like an endearing fantasy version of Knives Out . . . A great murder mystery is hard to pull off but Bennett structures his perfectly, and the fact that it’s in a fantasy setting only makes it better.”—T. J. Klune, The New York Times
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December 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This was a really cool book. Loved the fresh fantasy setting and the characters were very fun and interesting. And a murder mystery to boot!
Welcome to East Coast lunch time! If anyone on #BookSky needs gift recommendations today is the day! Oh, also, if you see a rec for someone else and think "Damn, that looks really good," it'll be 10% off for you too!
Happy #BlueSkyMonday! Our version of #CyberMonday but, with, like cool book recommendations rather than gross algorithm driven sales. So we'll be giving out recommendations ALL DAY & all recommendations will be 10% off. Make your requests now or just watch for posts throughout the day!
#BlueSkyMonday
On Monday December 1, our skyline will be ablaze with threads, replies, and quotes recommending great books for the holidays.
And every book we recommend, whether it's part of a big old thread or a specific recommendation for a reader, will be 10% off for the week.
portersquarebooks.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Welcome to East Coast lunch time! If anyone on #BookSky needs gift recommendations today is the day! Oh, also, if you see a rec for someone else and think "Damn, that looks really good," it'll be 10% off for you too!
Jane Harper's The Dry is one we recommend for place-centric mysteries: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781250... but if that also seems too dark, there's Donna Leon's series in Venice! portersquarebooks.com/book/9780060...
December 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Jane Harper's The Dry is one we recommend for place-centric mysteries: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781250... but if that also seems too dark, there's Donna Leon's series in Venice! portersquarebooks.com/book/9780060...
And now a few #SciFi & #Fantasy for #BlueSkyMonday! At a rare hinge between sci fi & historical fiction, Beings by @ilanaslightly.bsky.socia uses alien abductions, self-discovery, and archives to ask if we can ever really know the story of another person.
Beings by Ilana Masad
“The alien abduction meets lesbian yearning novel that will restore your faith in the universe. Ilana Masad excavates the juiciness of historical archives and the otherworldly mysteries of the everyday in her most brilliant work yet.” –Ruth Madievsky, author of All-Night Pharmacy
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December 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
And now a few #SciFi & #Fantasy for #BlueSkyMonday! At a rare hinge between sci fi & historical fiction, Beings by @ilanaslightly.bsky.socia uses alien abductions, self-discovery, and archives to ask if we can ever really know the story of another person.
Elizabeth George doesn't! But if you want a classic that should fit the bill try The Franchise Affair portersquarebooks.com/book/9780684... or something new & a little different The Murder of Mr. Ma: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781641...
I’m looking for a book for someone who enjoyed (and finished) the Inspector Linley mysteries. Does Elizabeth George have another series you’d recommend next?
December 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Elizabeth George doesn't! But if you want a classic that should fit the bill try The Franchise Affair portersquarebooks.com/book/9780684... or something new & a little different The Murder of Mr. Ma: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781641...
And see, here's the thing. You don't have to them, you got the recommendation from us! When they say, "Oh my god, this looks incredible, how did you find this?" you can just say, "You know, I just try to stay connected to literary culture," and that would not be a lie!
Happy #BlueSkyMonday! Our version of #CyberMonday but, with, like cool book recommendations rather than gross algorithm driven sales. So we'll be giving out recommendations ALL DAY & all recommendations will be 10% off. Make your requests now or just watch for posts throughout the day!
#BlueSkyMonday
On Monday December 1, our skyline will be ablaze with threads, replies, and quotes recommending great books for the holidays.
And every book we recommend, whether it's part of a big old thread or a specific recommendation for a reader, will be 10% off for the week.
portersquarebooks.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
And see, here's the thing. You don't have to them, you got the recommendation from us! When they say, "Oh my god, this looks incredible, how did you find this?" you can just say, "You know, I just try to stay connected to literary culture," and that would not be a lie!
Now some #BlueSkyMonday #CyberMonday recommendations for the mystery/crime readers of #BookSky The Museum Detective is a really smart, mystery that starts with archaeological fraud, but connects to organized crime, patriarchy, & the costs & rewards of forging your own path, plus a satisfying twist
The Museum Detective
Inspired by a real-life antiquities scandal in Pakistan, this gripping series debut introduces archaeologist Dr. Gul Delani, whose investigation into the discovery of a mummy gets complicated—and personal—when it collides with her years-long search for a missing family member. Perfect for fans of Sue Grafton and Elsa Hart.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Now some #BlueSkyMonday #CyberMonday recommendations for the mystery/crime readers of #BookSky The Museum Detective is a really smart, mystery that starts with archaeological fraud, but connects to organized crime, patriarchy, & the costs & rewards of forging your own path, plus a satisfying twist
Sure you COULD surf through all the supposed deals you're getting spammed with OR you could get a thoughtful book recommendation from a professional & we'll kick in a 10% discount for the holiday.
Happy #BlueSkyMonday! Our version of #CyberMonday but, with, like cool book recommendations rather than gross algorithm driven sales. So we'll be giving out recommendations ALL DAY & all recommendations will be 10% off. Make your requests now or just watch for posts throughout the day!
#BlueSkyMonday
On Monday December 1, our skyline will be ablaze with threads, replies, and quotes recommending great books for the holidays.
And every book we recommend, whether it's part of a big old thread or a specific recommendation for a reader, will be 10% off for the week.
portersquarebooks.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Sure you COULD surf through all the supposed deals you're getting spammed with OR you could get a thoughtful book recommendation from a professional & we'll kick in a 10% discount for the holiday.