Black Walnut Books

Black Walnut Books Black Walnut Books is a q***r and Native owned indie bookstore. linktr.ee/blackwalnutbooks

Road trip day three we went from Iowa to Wyoming pretty much without stopping. We started the day in our car at a rest s...
06/18/2026

Road trip day three we went from Iowa to Wyoming pretty much without stopping. We started the day in our car at a rest stop on the side of the highway in a torrential lightning storm. At the end of the day we got to camp in the most magical place right outside of Laramie (thanks Claire for the recommendation!) that was filled with wildflowers and incredible rock formations. It was so nice to get to fully relax.

Day two of our road trip was full of books and bagels, so pretty great! We started the day off with the best bagel sandw...
06/16/2026

Day two of our road trip was full of books and bagels, so pretty great! We started the day off with the best bagel sandwich of my life at BreadHive and left with a bag of bagels for the road. Then we visited Em and Em’s Books who were nice enough to open for us on their day off. They are also Native owned and I have been so excited to visit them in person! Our rule for the roadtrip is we each get to pick out one book per stop, so that we’ll all still fit in the car on the way home. At Em and Em’s Books I chose Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez and Blaze chose How to Be a Revolutionary by C.A. Davis. After that we stopped by Alice, Ever After Books and picked out a Beatrix Potter. We also got the perfect Richard Scarry print for our wedding road trip from their Anastasia Inciardi print machine. Then we headed to Cleveland and got to visit The ThirdSpace Reading Room which is a gorgeous Black owned bookstore and community space. I found The Fire Inside by Rima Vesely-Flad and Blaze picked up Coltrane on Coltrane by Chris DeVito. It is so restorative to get to visit so many incredible bookstores, especially ones where the curation and community focus is so mindful. I feel so lucky to get to make connections and be part of the diverse, vibrant bookselling community.

We are officially on our way to California to get married! We’re going to be stopping at as many indie bookstores on the...
06/15/2026

We are officially on our way to California to get married! We’re going to be stopping at as many indie bookstores on the way as we can. On the way out we have to hurry, but we’ll get to be more leisurely on the way back. Our first stop is Buffalo for BreadHive bagels (thanks for the recommendation Sarah Putnam 🥯✨) and Em and Em’s Books 📚💕 Talking Leaves Books and Burning Books are on are schedule for the drive back home in a few weeks. We appreciate everyone’s support so much. These last few months have been really hard, but also beautiful. We are so grateful for our community. The bookstore will be open normal hours throughout June, and we used our unexpected free time yesterday to make it extra pretty ✨🏳️‍🌈

06/14/2026

We won’t be able to be at pride today 😢 getting a gift certificate supports us so much and goes a long way to helping us recover.

The shops of the The Shirt Factory put together a pretty incredible donation basket for the Lower Adirondack Pride Gayla...
06/12/2026

The shops of the The Shirt Factory put together a pretty incredible donation basket for the Lower Adirondack Pride Gayla fundraiser tonight! I’m so grateful to be part of this vibrant, artistic community of small businesses!

We leave for our wedding in California in just under a week! We wanted to make sure we got a lake day before go, and yes...
06/09/2026

We leave for our wedding in California in just under a week! We wanted to make sure we got a lake day before go, and yesterday was the perfect day for it. We swam, Theo chased some waves and we read on a blanket surrounded by wild flowers. There are very few things I love more than bringing a stack of books with me to a beautiful place to read. I brought You Better Be Lightning by (the On the Same Page Book Club pick that we’re discussing at the bookstore tomorrow at 6:30) and Asmodeus by . Blaze brought The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline. On the way to the lake we saw what I believe is a rat snake climbing a tree, which was a beautiful way to begin our visit. I’m always so grateful for this lake 💕

We had so much fun at 🌈🎉 I’m so honored to be a bookseller in this town and so grateful for this incredible community! ...
06/07/2026

We had so much fun at 🌈🎉 I’m so honored to be a bookseller in this town and so grateful for this incredible community! Thank you to my fellow board members at for creating such a beautiful space to come together and celebrate. Q***r joy matters and rural q***r joy is a so important. The rain could not keep us down! Thank you to everyone who supported the bookstore even in the middle of a downpour 💜

The hats have arrived! 🎉🎉Thank you so much to everyone who pre-ordered. Hats will be starting to ship out today, and are...
06/03/2026

The hats have arrived! 🎉🎉

Thank you so much to everyone who pre-ordered. Hats will be starting to ship out today, and are now available in the bookstore for pick up.

If you’d like to get one, they are available on our website. We are selling them to fundraise for our new inventory and point of sale program, which will be an incredible step up for the store!!

Thank you so much to .designs for our incredible starry-eyed coyote. He was inspired by our sweet Charlie. And thank you to for the gorgeous embroidery work.

The hats are 100% organic cotton and are sliding scale $35 and up.

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71 Lawrence Street Studio 117
Glens Falls, NY
12801

Opening Hours

Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 6pm
Sunday 11am - 4pm

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