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Main St. Books Monroe
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A used and new bookstore in Monroe, Washington since 1995. Woman- and LGBTQIA-owned and operated. Store cat. 110 E. Main St. Monroe WA 98272 📚🌈😺 MainStBooksMonroe.com
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I have a weekly "how much we need to make to pay expenses" goal... we have not reached it a single week since August...
Anyway if you buy a book through our affiliate @bookshop_org you get a cookie 😉 and we get 30% of each sale!
Some of my faves I've read this year: bookshop.org/lists/best-b...
Several book covers, including They Bloom at Night, Brides of High Hill, Conclave, One Day Everyone Will Have Been Against This, Parable of the Sower...
November 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Just Cowboy Things: a Western book with a hat catalog as bookmark
Book The Outfit by JPS Brown and a Weather Hat Company of Wyoming catalog sticking out.
November 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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These are the coolest!
A few pages of ink comic drafts with blank speech bubbles
October 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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I didn't get to many bookstores in Jinbocho but I did make a trip just for Anekawa Nyankodo, a store specializing in books about cats <3 As he rang up my stack, I told the shopkeeper I also have a bookstore, in America, and showed him a picture of our store cat.
Several books laid out, all with cats in cover A person standing in front of a bookstore, the sign is in Japanese. Many posters of cats in window. A shelf of books about cats A subway entrance showing Jinbocho Sta. Exit A3. Lines Shinjuku, Mita, Hanzomon.
October 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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We will be having shorter hours September 15th to October 18th: Mon/Tues/Wed/Sat will be 10:30 to 4:30, and Thurs/Fri will be 2pm to 5pm. If you come in say hi to Steph, who will be watching over the store and of course Miranda!
The awning of a bookstore, with a blue sky and clouds behind it.
September 15, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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I love providing books for harmless pranks amongst family members <3
Two pictures of an enormous leather-bound Webster's Dictionary. The text reads, Customer: I want to give my brother a dictionary, but what's the biggest, fanciest, oldeset one you have? Me: Sir, I have a book that has been waiting for this moment.
September 11, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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If you are a "go to the bookstore and fill a basket" kind of person (as you should be!) what is an ideal basket shape? These are ours, and I've never been thrilled: if you insert the books spine up the handle gets awkward.
Two light blue plastic baskets with metal handles stacked on top of each other.
September 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I GOT THREE @LIBRO.FM ARCS AT MIDNIGHT AND THIS MORNING I HAVE AN IMPOSSIBLE DECISION TO MAKE.
Three audiobooks on the Libro app: Saltcrop, You Weren't Meant To Be Human, Spread Me
September 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Question, if you preordered a book unsigned but then the bookseller happened to go to a signing by the author and got your copy signed as well... I mean it's risky but I figure most people wouldn't mind a signed copy instead?
Title page of Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders, with a signature, the inscription "Magic is Everywhere!" And a cat with wings riding a creature that is shooting flames from its mouth and saying Rawwwrrr. Text cannot convey the awesomeness of this work of art.
August 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Repping the spicy books shelf... 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ Any particular open-door titles you'd recommend?
A tuxedo cat lying with her paws all pointing at the camera, on a piece of fabric with peppers on it. Blurry behind her are some book covers with slightly erotic images.
August 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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An entire cookbook of avocado recipes?! Oh, we're *rich* rich!
Avocado recipes
August 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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"What are you reading?"
"Oh, just a book called The Witcher: The Witcher (Witcher)"
August 19, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Got my Stardust Grail signed and hanko-ed by @yumewrites.bsky.social who also had many great suggestions in the New and Emerging Voices in Science Fiction panel! #worldCon #booksky
The title page of the Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei, signed and with a square red Japanese name stamp, with a bookmark about the author on top.
August 17, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Wrapping up lucky bags to send out! www.mainstbooksmonroe.com/product/luck... #福袋 #booksky 📚 💙
A paper bag with some books and General Fiction written on it A paper bag with some books and Science Fiction written on it
July 30, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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To those who wanted to love Samantha Shannon's Priory of the Orange Tree and Day of Fallen Night but were intimidated by their size, rejoice! Among the Burning Flowers, out in September, is a much more manageable 250 pages. Preorder at MainStBooksMonroe.com #BookSky
A book with a dragon in the cover, peeking out of a gold bubble mailer.
July 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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You've heard about the Biglaw Biter, now meet SmallBookstore Biter. She's very gentle with it, just when she wants my attention she does a deliberate MOUTH so I'm aware 😂
A cat, head turned sideways to put her mouth around someone's calf in blue tights.
July 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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That thumbnail reminds me of my favorite bad book cover, where someone's face was stuck into a helmet with no consideration for what actual heads are shaped like.
A book cover showing a fire and a few firefighters, the foremost is as described in the post.
July 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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CAN WE PLEASE STOP
A promoted post (ad) off Reddit that reads "The bestselling spicy fantasy romance series is soon to be complete! Booktok is calling it 'Harry Potter for adults'' with a picture of a woman in a red dress underwater
July 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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I also am a bookstore owner in WA who recommends books and shows the store cat.
IG mainstbooksmonroe if people like that kind of thing 😁
A tuxedo cat next to a display of books
July 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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The Onion is really publishing the truth about romantasy...
A newspaper with a picture of a centaur and the headline "Poll Finds Most Desirable Quality in Romantic Partner is Being Jacked Centaur." The Onion is a satirical publication.
July 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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As we are once again being crushed between Amazon's Prime days and Barnes and Noble Preorder sale, I've added a 25% discount through July 12 on several of the releases this year I'm most excited about including
A sunset over a bookstore's awning, PREORDER2025 WITH AN INDIE BOOKSTORE mainstbooksmonroe.com in white font over it.
July 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Updated our monthly Sales We Need To Make board and it's not looking good... I've run out of 3s! Maybe in July we could make sales into the 400s so I don't have to resort to using Es.
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A page that says Sales We Need 385 and each month Jan to June a number, mostly in the 200s and 300s. Only April was 403. Below that says Shop Local, Keep Local. In June the 3 is replaced with a backwards E.
July 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Last few days for our little Pride Month Sale! www.mainstbooksmonroe.com/shop/lgbtqia...
books on a table
June 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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I searched how many Little Free Libraries there are in Monroe...
You aren't going to win me over by flattery, genAI.
The AI Overview section of a Google search, including describing the Little Free Library behind Main St. Books Monroe as "a charming addition to the bookstore" and "often noted for its beauty, especially in the spring."
June 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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We will be participating in a collab between @bookshop_org @gretchenrubin tomorrow! At 5pm we will have a special 25-minute silent reading experience, followed by discussion. You can read at home, however, attendees at the store will enter a drawing for prizes. #Read25Day #Read25in2025
Come read with us for Read 25 Day June 25th 2025, come to our bookstore on June 25th to read for 25 minutes.
June 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM