Strand Bookstore
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Legendary home of 18 miles of new, used & rare books since 1927. Located at Union Square and UWS.📚 Shop online at http://strandbooks.com
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There are 500 incredible items up for auction through Publishing for Minnesota! Proceeds from the auction will support organizations providing resources to those in most urgent need due to the ongoing ICE raids. Bidding is now open:
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Publishing for Minnesota
Silent auction 'Publishing for Minnesota' hosted online at 32auctions.
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January 29, 2026 at 3:15 PM
There are 500 incredible items up for auction through Publishing for Minnesota! Proceeds from the auction will support organizations providing resources to those in most urgent need due to the ongoing ICE raids. Bidding is now open:
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It’s FRED BASS DAY! In 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio issued an official declaration in celebration of Fred’s many contributions to New York City. Today we celebrate Fred and his legacy, The Strand, by sharing a few of our favorite stories and quotes from over the decades he spent selling books.
January 26, 2026 at 10:26 PM
It’s FRED BASS DAY! In 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio issued an official declaration in celebration of Fred’s many contributions to New York City. Today we celebrate Fred and his legacy, The Strand, by sharing a few of our favorite stories and quotes from over the decades he spent selling books.
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🤩🧧🌟 It was such an honor to have a special SPARKLES FOR SUNNY storytime + craft at The Strand on Saturday, and sign in their Autograph Alley too (with my editor and fellow author also—wow!). Always feeling grateful.
@penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong @strandbooks.com
@penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong @strandbooks.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:32 PM
🤩🧧🌟 It was such an honor to have a special SPARKLES FOR SUNNY storytime + craft at The Strand on Saturday, and sign in their Autograph Alley too (with my editor and fellow author also—wow!). Always feeling grateful.
@penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong @strandbooks.com
@penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong @strandbooks.com
Hello New York! We are closing at 4pm today due to SNOW! You can always shop with us at www.strandbooks.com. Stay safe and stay warm!
Shop Books Online - Collectibles, Signed Editions & Staff Picks
Buy books online including bestsellers, first editions, and rare collectibles from New York’s largest independent bookstore. Legendary Home of 18 Miles of Books since 1927.
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January 25, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Hello New York! We are closing at 4pm today due to SNOW! You can always shop with us at www.strandbooks.com. Stay safe and stay warm!
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Join us on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at the @strandbooks.com in New York City, where Hammer & Hope co-founder @keeanga.bsky.social will discuss the 2026 edition of "How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective" with Michelle Alexander. www.eventbrite.com/e/keeanga-ya...
January 22, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Join us on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at the @strandbooks.com in New York City, where Hammer & Hope co-founder @keeanga.bsky.social will discuss the 2026 edition of "How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective" with Michelle Alexander. www.eventbrite.com/e/keeanga-ya...
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NYC!
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander at @strandbooks.com
Wednesday, February 18th
Tickets
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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander at @strandbooks.com
Wednesday, February 18th
Tickets
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January 21, 2026 at 8:17 PM
NYC!
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander at @strandbooks.com
Wednesday, February 18th
Tickets
www.eventbrite.com/e/keeanga-ya...
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander at @strandbooks.com
Wednesday, February 18th
Tickets
www.eventbrite.com/e/keeanga-ya...
New York has gifted us read-a-book-in-bed-with-your-girlfriend weather, and we’ve got a wintry mix of the coziest and the coldest books that is perfect for the occasion! Our recs: www.strandbooks.com/collections/...
Wintery Reads - Collections
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January 21, 2026 at 9:25 PM
New York has gifted us read-a-book-in-bed-with-your-girlfriend weather, and we’ve got a wintry mix of the coziest and the coldest books that is perfect for the occasion! Our recs: www.strandbooks.com/collections/...
The Bookstore by Michael Walek is a heartwarming play about the owner and employees of a small indie bookstore. Not only do we love the subject matter, but we also love that the books on the set were sourced from The Strand!
January 19, 2026 at 9:50 PM
The Bookstore by Michael Walek is a heartwarming play about the owner and employees of a small indie bookstore. Not only do we love the subject matter, but we also love that the books on the set were sourced from The Strand!
This is finally, really it: the year you read Middlemarch–or The Golden Notebook, or Infinite Jest, or Vanity Fair, or Dhalgren or whatever other 800+ page, towering book you’ve been meaning to pick up. You can do it. We’re in this with you. For our recs, head to: buff.ly/0LDJC7K
January 15, 2026 at 8:47 PM
This is finally, really it: the year you read Middlemarch–or The Golden Notebook, or Infinite Jest, or Vanity Fair, or Dhalgren or whatever other 800+ page, towering book you’ve been meaning to pick up. You can do it. We’re in this with you. For our recs, head to: buff.ly/0LDJC7K
“I want to go through English literature, like a string through cheese, or rather like some industrious insect, eating its way from book to book, from Chaucer to Lawrence.” – Virginia Woolf (and also the Very Hungry Caterpillar)
January 14, 2026 at 10:16 PM
“I want to go through English literature, like a string through cheese, or rather like some industrious insect, eating its way from book to book, from Chaucer to Lawrence.” – Virginia Woolf (and also the Very Hungry Caterpillar)
So many books we’ve been waiting for FINALLY come out today! What are you reading this week? buff.ly/CdQTAkk
January 13, 2026 at 10:43 PM
So many books we’ve been waiting for FINALLY come out today! What are you reading this week? buff.ly/CdQTAkk
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🎉🧧🌟 I’m excited to share some Jan/Feb event info for SPARKLES FOR SUNNY, with NYC bookstore visits, #WRAD (virtual), and even a LNY event in NJ! Please join if you can—I’d love to see you!
@penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong #YuandMeBooks @strandbooks.com #ParsippanyLibrary
@penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong #YuandMeBooks @strandbooks.com #ParsippanyLibrary
January 7, 2026 at 4:20 PM
🎉🧧🌟 I’m excited to share some Jan/Feb event info for SPARKLES FOR SUNNY, with NYC bookstore visits, #WRAD (virtual), and even a LNY event in NJ! Please join if you can—I’d love to see you!
@penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong #YuandMeBooks @strandbooks.com #ParsippanyLibrary
@penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong #YuandMeBooks @strandbooks.com #ParsippanyLibrary
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😍 So cool to be in such an iconic bookstore!
The actual Strand is taking preorders for No Friend to This House now…
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The actual Strand is taking preorders for No Friend to This House now…
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Buy No Friend to This House Hardcover by Haynes, Natalie Online
Order the Hardcover edition of "No Friend to This House" by Haynes, Natalie, published by Harper. Fast shipping from Strand Books.
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January 11, 2026 at 1:47 PM
😍 So cool to be in such an iconic bookstore!
The actual Strand is taking preorders for No Friend to This House now…
www.strandbooks.com/no-friend-to...
@strandbooks.com
The actual Strand is taking preorders for No Friend to This House now…
www.strandbooks.com/no-friend-to...
@strandbooks.com
Congratulations to Elysse and Madeleine, who were married in our Rare Book Room this November! 💐💫 (photo by @sylviethecamera.bsky.social)
January 7, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Congratulations to Elysse and Madeleine, who were married in our Rare Book Room this November! 💐💫 (photo by @sylviethecamera.bsky.social)
The very first new books of the new year come out today! And we’re serving them hot off the press, so come pick up your copies and warm those fingers: buff.ly/CdQTAkk
January 6, 2026 at 10:21 PM
The very first new books of the new year come out today! And we’re serving them hot off the press, so come pick up your copies and warm those fingers: buff.ly/CdQTAkk
Join us at our events this week: buff.ly/Uu49dTL
Upcoming Events at The Strand
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January 5, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Join us at our events this week: buff.ly/Uu49dTL
Celebrate the New Year at one of our exciting January events! RSVP now to join us: www.strandbooks.com/events.html
January 2, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Celebrate the New Year at one of our exciting January events! RSVP now to join us: www.strandbooks.com/events.html
Farewell 2025! Hello 2026 and the well-earned retirement our MetroCards will enjoy as bookmarks. #MetroCardFarewell
January 1, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Farewell 2025! Hello 2026 and the well-earned retirement our MetroCards will enjoy as bookmarks. #MetroCardFarewell
Come grab a new (or used-but-new-to-you) book for the New Year ✨ Holiday Hours are attached!
December 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Come grab a new (or used-but-new-to-you) book for the New Year ✨ Holiday Hours are attached!
Our Jane Austen Tea Party with Brandon Taylor, @egangoonsquad.bsky.social, and @adellewaldman.bsky.social was covered by @latimes.com! buff.ly/MeZu09t
250 years of Austen, 200 million TikTok views, and one very skeptical fifth-grader
Why Jane Austen still resonates: Inside the nationwide celebrations for the author's 250th birthday and the new generation of readers discovering her 19th century heroines.
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December 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Our Jane Austen Tea Party with Brandon Taylor, @egangoonsquad.bsky.social, and @adellewaldman.bsky.social was covered by @latimes.com! buff.ly/MeZu09t
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us here at The Strand! 💫 ❤️
December 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us here at The Strand! 💫 ❤️
Happy Jólabókaflóð! This Icelandic tradition–literally, the “Christmas Book Flood”–is celebrated by giving books as gifts and then reading together! This custom began after WWII, when paper was one of the only non-rationed commodities, making books the preferred Christmas gift 🎄📚☕️
December 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Happy Jólabókaflóð! This Icelandic tradition–literally, the “Christmas Book Flood”–is celebrated by giving books as gifts and then reading together! This custom began after WWII, when paper was one of the only non-rationed commodities, making books the preferred Christmas gift 🎄📚☕️
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Author Kiran Desai (r.), whose novel The Loneliness of Sonia and Sonny (Hogarth) was a finalist for this year’s Booker Prize, was in conversation with journalist Razia Iqbal (l.) at New York City’s the Strand on December 4 as part of PEN America’s PEN Out Loud series.
(Jasmina Tomic)
(Jasmina Tomic)
December 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Author Kiran Desai (r.), whose novel The Loneliness of Sonia and Sonny (Hogarth) was a finalist for this year’s Booker Prize, was in conversation with journalist Razia Iqbal (l.) at New York City’s the Strand on December 4 as part of PEN America’s PEN Out Loud series.
(Jasmina Tomic)
(Jasmina Tomic)
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December 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Let us play matchmaker! Our Blind Date With a Book collection feature novels wrapped in art by our very own booksellers, matching readers with their ideal next read.
December 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Let us play matchmaker! Our Blind Date With a Book collection feature novels wrapped in art by our very own booksellers, matching readers with their ideal next read.