Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore

Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore Literary & Garden Arts Founded in 2004 when two old friends decided to pool their passions, talents, and resources.

Our name was inspired by the first line of Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel: “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." Instagram:
Twitter: @ MrsDsBooks

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06/04/2026

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💚What we’re reading💚
06/04/2026

💚What we’re reading💚

Idaho’s first openly LGBTQ+ lawmaker shares their powerful story of hope, resilience, and political resistance. Join us ...
06/04/2026

Idaho’s first openly LGBTQ+ lawmaker shares their powerful story of hope, resilience, and political resistance.

Join us at Mrs. Dalloway’s on Saturday, June 6 at 7:00 PM when Cole Nicole LeFavour comes to the store to share their new book In the Arms of Mountains: A Memoir of Land, Love, and Q***r Resistance in Red America. Cole will be joined in conversation by Sophia Raday and will sign copies of their book after the presentation.

Cole LeFavour was 11 years old when their hippie parents moved the family to a guest ranch in Idaho. Hours to the north, as the LeFavours unpacked pots and pans, Richard Butler dreamed of establishing a white separatist nation. It’s here, in one of the reddest states on the map, where Cole learned to raise ducklings, hike the wilderness alone, and build political resistance where you’d least expect it.

This is the story rural America deserves to tell—and that the rest of the country needs to hear. Follow LeFavour’s journey from their 2-mile walk to the school bus along a dirt road to their monumental election as Idaho’s first openly q***r state senator. Cole recounts anti-apartheid protests at Berkeley, the solitary life of a fire lookout, and the gravitational pull of unexpected romance and loss. In the Arms of Mountains is a memoir with dirt under its nails and heart on its sleeve. It shatters the carefully constructed “monolithic heartland” myth and rewrites Hillbilly Elegy’s bleak epitaph.

Haunting, hopeful, and full of fight, Cole’s story reminds us of what’s possible when we look beyond red and blue, right and left, to meet each other at the edge of the wild.

Registration is free; the link is in our bio.

Carolyn and Kaylee have some exciting new recommendations for your reading this week! 🍀
06/03/2026

Carolyn and Kaylee have some exciting new recommendations for your reading this week! 🍀

These new and exciting new titles for middle grade, young adults, and kids are out on the shelves today!
06/02/2026

These new and exciting new titles for middle grade, young adults, and kids are out on the shelves today!

It’s a HUGE lay-down day with some super exciting new releases landing in the shop! 😍 What are you most excited for?
06/02/2026

It’s a HUGE lay-down day with some super exciting new releases landing in the shop! 😍 What are you most excited for?

We’re excited to welcome Eric Jay Dolin next Tuesday, in the shop to talk about his new book “The Wreck of The Mentor”. ...
05/28/2026

We’re excited to welcome Eric Jay Dolin next Tuesday, in the shop to talk about his new book “The Wreck of The Mentor”.

From the best-selling author of “Black Flags, Blue Waters” comes the story of the American whaleship Mentor, wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in the western Pacific. With supplies dwindling, the eleven surviving crewmen face not only the miseries of shipwreck in unfamiliar territory but also the profound uncertainty of contact with the Indigenous people of the Micronesian archipelago of Palau, who within days approach the deserted men brandishing axes, clubs, and spears. In this gripping saga of cultural collision, tribal wars, and dashed hopes, award-winning historian Eric Jay Dolin vividly reconstructs the Mentor’s doomed voyage, the years of perilous captivity, and the delicate negotiations and fraught naval rescue mission that followed.

Illustrated by more than 100 images and maps, The Wreck of the Mentor is at once a powerful story of survival and a revealing window into the great Age of Sail a time when maritime ambition collided with local sovereignty, and when the outcome of one voyage rippled across oceans and empires.

There is no charge for this event but we ask that you reserve a seat via Eventbrite. The link is in our bio.

Fresh faves from our team in new hardcover and paperback! ⭐️
05/27/2026

Fresh faves from our team in new hardcover and paperback! ⭐️

We are so excited about this big stack of newly released books on this lovely Tuesday! ☀️
05/26/2026

We are so excited about this big stack of newly released books on this lovely Tuesday! ☀️

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2904 College Avenue
Berkeley, CA
94705

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 12pm - 5pm

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+15107048222

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