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Dream Books Co. recycles books back into the hands of readers. Since 2008, we have kept over 13 million books out of landfills.

Shoppers can browse our complete selection of over 100,000 items online or visit our bookstore in Denver.

11/06/2026

📚🍻This weekend is absolutely STACKED with reasons to leave your reading nook. (Don't worry, you can bring a book.)🏹🎨

A Hunger Games Escape Room, Children’s Book Festival, Studio Ghibli crafts, book swaps, and more from:

👉 SWIPE through the roundup to find your next adventure.
🔖 SAVE this post so you don't forget what's happening.
📲 SHARE it with your favorite bookish accomplice.

💬 What are your plans? Are you spending this weekend at a book event, hunting for secondhand treasures, or staying home to tackle your TBR?

And if we missed a literary event happening this weekend, DROP IT BELOW! Let's give our local book community some love. 📚💙

11/05/2026

🎶 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and hello Vinyl Friday! 💛💿

Some records are worth stopping the music for. 👀

This Friday, November 6, we're bringing out some seriously special secondhand vinyl finds, including Elton John's iconic Goodbye Yellow Brick Road! 🌈🎹

Legendary albums, cassettes, and more can be found in our Vinyl Room!
What's the ONE album you'd drop everything for if you spotted it in a secondhand record bin?

👇 Tell us your ultimate vinyl holy grail in the comments! And tag the friend who always says they're just browsing before leaving with five more records. 😂

📍 Join us for Vinyl Friday, November 6! Remember, our vinyl shop has a separate entrance from the bookstore.

11/05/2026

📚🔥 Owning a copy of this book used to get people in serious trouble!

And yet, it became one of the most influential novels of the 19th century. 👀
Welcome back to Read Between the Lines, where we turn the unexpected treasures in our secondhand book donations into a literary guessing game! 🔎📖

This week's mystery is a particularly fascinating find: a beautifully illustrated collector's edition of a novel that challenged the status quo, sparked fierce controversy, and left a complicated legacy that readers still examine today.

👇 NO SPOILERS! Drop the number of the clue that gave it away. Were you a literary detective by Clue #2, or did you need all seven? 😂

💙 Bonus question: Do you think a book's historical significance can outweigh its problematic elements?

11/04/2026

💔✨ This find is GOLDEN ✨💔

Some love stories are written in the stars. We're talking Kacey Musgraves' star-crossed Deluxe Limited Edition Vinyl, complete with a signed poster!
We have all sorts of goodies in our vinyl this week, but we are especially excited about this one!

⭐Are you a Golden Hour romantic ☀️ or a star-crossed heartbreak survivor 💔?

And TAG the Kacey Musgraves fan who would absolutely lose their mind over this find. 👀

📀 Don't forget to check out our next Vinyl Friday on November 6th for more unexpected musical treasures!

11/04/2026

📚Literary whiplash with this mix!

Quite the variety with:
💙 WWII espionage and buried secrets
🤠 Wild West romance (times TWO!)
💔 Family drama and complicated relationships
🌱 Powerful memoirs about survival and resilience
📖 A little literary fiction to round things out

From Sharon Cameron and Danielle Steel to Tracie Peterson, Dave Pelzer, and Charles Davis, this donation pile has a little bit of everything.
We never know what stories are coming through our doors, what genres will end up side by side, or which forgotten favorite will find its next reader. ♻️💙

Have you read a book by one of these authors? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!

11/03/2026

📚🗳️ Your library is more than a place for books tomorrow!

Plot twist: Your local library might also be your polling place. 👀

We already love libraries for their books, free resources, educational programs, and the countless ways they bring communities together. But tomorrow, November 3, many Colorado libraries are taking on another important role: hosting in-person voting centers and official ballot drop boxes!

You can vote at the following libraries:

📖 SWIPE to find participating libraries near you!

🗳️ ELECTION DAY: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3
⏰ In-person voting: 7 AM–7 PM
📍 Some locations offer in-person voting, some have ballot drop boxes, and others offer BOTH. Check the details on each slide!

🔎 IMPORTANT: Confirm your voting or drop-off location through GoVoteColorado.gov before heading out. Completed ballots must be received by 7 PM tomorrow.

At Dream Books, we're passionate about literacy, access to information, and the community spaces that connect us. Libraries have always been about so much more than books, and this is another example of the many ways they serve their communities. 💙

📌 SAVE this post for tomorrow.
📤 SHARE it with your Colorado friends and neighbors.
🏷️ TAG your favorite local library to thank the people who keep these community spaces running!

11/02/2026

📚✨ Somewhere between a fairy tale and a fever dream…

This week's Shelf Surprise is The Tale of The Dark Crystal, written by Donna Bass and illustrated by Bruce McNally. 🔮

And these illustrations? ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE.

The Skeksis are still terrifying. The creatures are still wonderfully bizarre. And the artwork is a reminder that children's fantasy used to be delightfully unhinged. 😂

💬 Were you the kid who watched The Dark Crystal on repeat, or the kid who needed every light in the house turned on afterward? 👀

👇 Tell us your Dark Crystal childhood experience in the comments, and tag someone who remembers the Skeksis!

11/02/2026

📚✨ Decorated edges aren’t new, BookTok!

One of the coolest things about working exclusively with secondhand books? We get to see generations of book design come through our doors.
Every donation is a little different. Some books arrive with colorful stained edges. Others have shimmering gold finishes, intricate patterns, or decorative details that have been around far longer than today's special-edition romantasy obsession. 👀

And because books from so many different eras pass through our warehouse, we get a front-row seat to how bookmaking has changed over time.

Turns out, people have been page-maxxing for CENTURIES. 💅📖

For this installment of Book Vocabulary, we're exploring the history of decorated page edges, from traditional bookbinding techniques to the sprayed-edge editions taking over our feeds.

Sometimes the most interesting thing about a secondhand book is the history on the outside.

📖 SWIPE to explore the evolution of decorated book edges!

💬 Are you drawn to modern sprayed edges, antique gold gilding, intricate marbling, or the mysterious hidden paintings?

♻️ And next time you're browsing secondhand books, take a closer look at the edges! You never know what little piece of book history you'll discover.

11/01/2026

November is more swole than a pumpkin - WITH EVENTS!

From Denver to Boulder and everywhere in between, our local bookstores, libraries, authors, and literary organizations are giving us a whole month of reasons to leave the house. (Yes, bringing a book counts as being social.) Featuring events with:
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And author and poet will be passing through!

📖 Swipe through our November Reading Community Roundup to find your next bookish adventure!

❤️ SAVE this post so you can make plans all month.
📤 SHARE it with the friend who always says, “We should do something soon!”
🏷️ TAG your favorite local bookstore or bookish organization to show them some love.

💬 Let us know! Which November event are you most excited about? Did we miss one? Drop it in the comments!

So grateful for our literary community 💙

Check with individual organizers for event times, registration requirements, and updates.

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4455 Grape Street
Denver, CO
80216

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