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Calgary Reads Big Book Sale Discover 200,000+ gently used books of every genre and help support children's literacy!

One spine at a time at our giant community book sale, Calgarians raise thousands of dollars in support of programs that ...
08/27/2026

One spine at a time at our giant community book sale, Calgarians raise thousands of dollars in support of programs that help get kids reading (a record $584,00, to be exact!)

➡️Head to BigBookSale.ca to find out which organizations have been named 2026 proceeds recipients—and how they’re making a difference in the learning lives of children in Calgary.
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📘⚡️What is Big Book Club reading and having BIG conversations about this fall? Big Book Club picks are here and now is t...
08/19/2026

📘⚡️What is Big Book Club reading and having BIG conversations about this fall?

Big Book Club picks are here and now is the time to get these dates in your calendar!

📘The Director📘
Wednesday, September 16
Speaker: Kelly Hewson

📘Orbital📘
Wednesday, October 21
Speaker: Anthony Camara

📘Precarious📘
Wednesday, November 18
Speaker: Marcello Di Cintio

Join us think read and think deeper together!💫

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10-11:30 am

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Temple B’nai Tikvah
900 47 Avenue Southwest

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Owl's Nest Books will be on site with book sales—or you can buy in store ahead of the meet-up

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$12
👉bigbooksale.ca/club to get the link to register

Wishing you all a day of joyful reading! 📚❤️✨ 📸 by Stacey Miller | calgary Photographer
08/09/2026

Wishing you all a day of joyful reading! 📚❤️✨



📸 by Stacey Miller | calgary Photographer

⚡️📚Meet the book-lovers of book-lovers! These are the folks who volunteer at our sale and line up to be among the first ...
08/05/2026

⚡️📚Meet the book-lovers of book-lovers!

These are the folks who volunteer at our sale and line up to be among the first to shop on our pre-sale volunteer appreciation event, Spread the Words. 📚✨

Many have joined us for years, both in volunteering and in arriving at the Calgary Curling Club in the early morning so that when the doors open to our reader’s paradise for the first time, it’s 🎉📚🏃‍♂️📚😍

Happy book-lover’s day on Sunday, reader friends! 🥰

📖 Happy Paperback Book Day from your local giant community book sale! We 💗celebrating the portability, affordability and...
07/30/2026

📖 Happy Paperback Book Day from your local giant community book sale! We 💗celebrating the portability, affordability and history of the paperback. To paperbacks! And readers! 💫

What’s on your paperback stack right now?

📸 Stacey Miller | calgary Photographer

Our volunteer aprons, resting in the off-season—missing all you book-lovers and books! 😂Did you know more than 1,200 vol...
07/23/2026

Our volunteer aprons, resting in the off-season—missing all you book-lovers and books! 😂

Did you know more than 1,200 volunteers helped to collect, sort and sell books at the 2026 Calgary Reads Big Book Sale?!

All that volunteering over donation, sort and sale days added up to 16,000+ hours of gifted time!

We have an incredible volunteer community! 🫶

📸 by Stacey Miller | calgary Photographer

07/16/2026

! 📚🧤Remember that April Stuff-a-Truck weekend that was just a little frosty and windy, and you all came out wearing puffy coats and smiles to donate and box a record number of books?

Readers and volunteers, you are all kinds of amazing! 🤗

Fun to look back on a hot Calgary summer day—when many of us are enjoying the fruits of that labour as we read under the sun. 📖☀️

Thank you once again to everyone who made our donation days some of our best yet—all in support of getting kids reading! ✨

🤠📚Happy reading and Stampeding, friends!
07/07/2026

🤠📚Happy reading and Stampeding, friends!

Happy Canada Day, friends! 🇨🇦🍁We hope this means a little extra time for reading Canadian! 😉📚
07/01/2026

Happy Canada Day, friends! 🇨🇦🍁

We hope this means a little extra time for reading Canadian! 😉📚

What’s your caption for this photo? You know that look! 🤔
06/26/2026

What’s your caption for this photo? You know that look! 🤔

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720 3 Street NW
Calgary, AB
T2N1N9

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