Thank you all so much for showing up and supporting this little local bookshop! Despite some extra challenges this year, we’re closing it out with our best sales to date and our best sellers really show what you care about: community! You showed up for PB Book Club this year and I can’t wait to keep it going with Heart the Lover by Lily King on January 21st. We’ve got more community events coming up too so make sure you are signed up for our newsletter. Thank you so much for being a part of this nice little corner of the world with me. With lots of love, Sara
The Top Selling Reads of 2025
#1 The Rivertowns Dispatch -our beloved local paper!
#2 Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, popular fiction and our October PB Book Club Pick
#3 Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, literary fiction and our April PB Book Club Pick
#4 Audition by Katie Kitamura, literary fiction, our May PB Book Club Pick and my favorite book of the year
#5 The Menopause Moment by Kelly Casperson M D, non-fiction accompanying a great event at Joyful Dermatology
Top Selling Cookbooks
Something from Nothing and Russ & Daughters tied for the #1 spot
Followed by two hits with local connection: Barbecue by Hugh Mangum &
Shana Liebman, and The Weekday Vegetarians Get Simple by Jenny Rosenstrach.
Top Selling Middle Grade (age 8-12) and YA (12+)
Cartoonists Club by Raina Telgemeier
The Hunger Games series
Top Selling Picture Books
If We Were Dogs by Sophie Blackall
Billie Jean Peet Athlete by Andrea Beaty
Hope In a Jar by Deborah Marcero
Tie: Mixed Feelings by Liana Finck and Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo by Bess Kalb
Who Wet My Pants (a bestseller almost every year we’ve been open!)