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11/02/2026

End of the Year Event Calendar 🗓

What a wild sentence to write. Somehow, 2026 is already coming to a close!

It's been a whirlwind of a year, but one thing that has remained constant is community. And we'd love to see you before the year comes to an end. ❤️

While we may squeeze in an event or two, here are our confirmed opportunities to see us before we take our winter break. After these, we'll see you again in February 2027! 📚🫶🏼

palette - A Jersey City Creative Market
🗓 Sunday, 11/8
⏰ 11AM - 4PM
📍 Hybrid Coffee + Kitchen ®️, 573 Palisade Avenue, Jersey City, NJ

Quiet Reading Club
🗓 Tuesday, 11/10
⏰ 6:30PM - 8:30PM
📍 bergen_hall, 58 Maple Street, Jersey City, NJ
🎟 Currently at capacity! Join the waitlist through the link in bio.

The Fall Market at Maxwell Alley
🗓 Saturday, 11/14
⏰ 10AM - 2PM
📍Maxwell Alley 12 Coles Street, Jersey City, NJ

La Placita Market
🗓 Sunday, 11/22
⏰ 9AM - 3PM
📍 Marimba Cafe 10 Banta Place, Hackensack, NJ

Quiet Reading Club
🗓 Thursday, 12/3
⏰ 6:30PM - 8:30PM
📍 Marimba Cafe 10 Banta Place, Hackensack, NJ
🎟 Eventbrite registration opens Thursday, November 12th.

3 Acres Holiday Night Market
🗓 Friday, 12/4
⏰ 5PM - 9PM
📍 3Acres - 400 Claremont Avenue, Jersey City, NJ

Kokuyo Holiday Book Fair
🗓 Sunday, 12/13
⏰ 12PM - 5PM
📍 Kokuyo - 1135 Chestnut Street, Roselle, NJ

We hope to see you at one (or a few!) of these before we close out the year. Thank you for continuing to show up, support this little bookstore, and make Book Haven what it is. ❤️

10/30/2026

Your neighborhood bookstore, wherever we pop up. 📚

No matter the event or the space, we're bringing a thoughtfully curated selection of books across genres, something for every kind of reader, and shelves filled with diverse voices and stories.

Because that's what Book Haven Books is all about. Bringing readers and stories together, wherever we go.

Tomorrow we will be sharing our November and December events, so you'll know where to find us next. 🫶🏼

10/28/2026

📖 Check out what Quiet Reading Club was reading at our October meet up!

Such a range of different reads and you can shop some of them at bookhavenbooks.com (or linked through this post!) 📚

💫 Want to make it to the next Quiet Reading Club? Our November meet up is live on our Eventbrite. Check out our precious post for more details!

10/27/2026

📚 October 27, 2026 - New Releases! 📚
Swipe 👉🏻 through for a short description for each new release!

✨ You can shop them all now at bookhavenbooks.com ✨

📖 Savage Lake by Nick Medina
A mother and son travel to a dilapidated cabin in the woods that haunts more than just her memories in this new unnerving horror from the author of The Whistler and Sisters of the Lost Nation.

📖 The Fall Fix Up by Karmen Lee
Set in the cozy small town of Peach Blossom, a free-spirited mechanic and a fiercely independent artist make a pact to help each other rebuild, for fans of opposites attract romance and seasonal stories that celebrate autumn.

📖 Dina Gets Lucky by Uzma Jalaluddin
At a sumptuous family wedding, two former friends rediscover their own love story and the lies that tore them apart in a chaotic and swoony second-chance romance by the author of Yours for the Season.

📖 To Dream in Darkness by Ann Liang
China in the age of brilliance, where gods freely wander the three realms. Amongst them is the cruel and beautiful Death God, who has never failed to collect a soul on time. Until now. For when he seeks out Rujia, the noble god of healing―and the only god he is fated to kill with his own hands―she makes him an offer he can’t refuse: she will help lift the excruciating, century-old curse placed upon him if he gives her a one-month reprieve.

📖 Code and Codex by Yoon Ha Lee
Aurelia wants to control and deploy the Censorate’s thousand-year traitor and prisoner, the Basilisk, a man with a gaze so lethal that he destroyed its fleet of old through camera feeds. Unfortunately for her, the Basilisk gave himself a form of aphasia that makes him immune to her commands.

📖 They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful: A Palestinian Memoir

Braiding rich personal narrative with history, archival fragments, and cultural critique, They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful traces one woman’s journey as she returns—slowly, deliberately—to he

10/26/2026

📚 Quiet Reading Club at Bergen Hall 📚

Join us for our June Quiet Reading Club at bergen_hall on Tuesday, November 10th from 6:30–8:30 PM.

Quiet Reading Club is simple: bring whatever you’re currently reading and enjoy an hour of quiet reading in community. No assigned book, no pressure, just time to slow down together.

Here’s the vibe:
📚 Bring your current read or something from your TBR
🍸 Enjoy cocktails, mocktails, dinner, or snacks from Bergen Hall
📖 Unwind and read quietly in community
🗨️ Optional mingling before and after reading

Evening flow:
6:30–7:10 PM – Arrive, order, and get settled
7:10–8:10 PM – Quiet Reading Hour
8:10–8:30 PM – Group photo + social time

📍 bergen_hall 58 Maple Street, Jersey City, NJ
📅 Tuesday, November 10th
⏰ 6:30–8:30 PM
📚 BYO Book

Whether you’re diving into a novel or finally starting that book sitting on your nightstand, Quiet ReadingClub is your invitation to slow down and read in good company.

Quiet Reading Club is hosted by Book Haven Books, an independent bookstore celebrating diverse stories and creating spaces for readers to connect in community. 📚

🎟️ Free to attend. Space is limited. RSVP via the link in our bio.

10/22/2026

👻🎃 Spooky Edition Pop-Up Market 🖤

Something Spooky Is Brewing in The Backyard of Lil Dove Cafe! 🦇

Join us for a frightful fun day filled with delicious drinks, tasty bites, local vendors and a chance to win some spooktacular prizes!

🗓 Saturday, October 24th
⏰️ 10am - 3pm
📍 589 Palisade Avenue, Jersey City, NJ

See you there!

10/20/2026

📚 October 20, 2026 - New Releases! 📚
Swipe 👉🏻 through for a short description for each new release!

✨ You can shop them all now at bookhavenbooks.com ✨

📖 The Turning of Sally-Mae
A historical African-Wild West horror story of supernatural vengeance and terrifying occultic magic from the winner of the Bram Stoker Award® for Lifetime Achievement. Two fearsome deities battle each other for the souls of white twins destined to either bring vengeful devastation or salvation to their community in Texas, USA, for a great injustice done to their mother.

📖 Needle Mouth by K-Ming Chang
Cousins Cindy, Yangyang, and Mandy’s hot, tedious summer unfolds in their grandmother’s hauntingly familiar house. Mandy, the eldest, seeks connection online and exchanges emails with a stranger. Yangyang, the youngest, retreats into her own imagination in search of meaning. But every morning Cindy wakes with strange objects in her mouth: a button, a berry, a coin.

📖 Visceral: Essays by María Fernanda Ampuero
What does it mean to move with a woman’s body through a misogynistic world? María Fernanda Ampuero, one of the greatest writers of the new wave of Latin American gothic fiction, answers this question in this personal essay collection that’s part analysis, part confessional, and part horror story.

📖 Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging, and Hope
A call to action and a call to love, Our Arab holds many truths at once―about society, identity, and family―and flashes with radical compassion, fierce pride, bitter loss, and righteous anger, forming an incredibly complex portrait of what it means to be Palestinian today.

10/15/2026

Books that FLEW off the shelves at our Grown Up Book Fair! 📚✨

One of my favorite things about these events is seeing what catches your eye. No two book fairs are ever quite the same, and I love seeing the different stories that find their way into your hands and eventually onto your bookshelves.

Swipe through to see the titles that found new homes at our most recent Grown Up Book Fair!

Online bookstore, popup bookstore, indie bookstores, Latina owned bookstore, diverse authors

Something followed us home. It crawled in with our prayers, slipped into our beds, watched from mirrors, waited in water, and learned our names. In these stories, horror does not announce itself. It possesses, feeds, whispers, and waits.

Gathering chilling work from some of today’s most acclaimed Latiné voices, this anthology moves through haunted households, brutal landscapes, sacred spaces turned dangerous, and bodies claimed by forces both ancient and intimate. The dead murmur behind locked doors. Bones rebuild themselves under merciless suns. Love becomes a doorway for demonic hunger. Prayers summon answers that arrive too late…or too fully. Blood, devotion, and memory intertwine as the past presses back with teeth.

Something Followed Us Home is a landmark anthology of Latiné horror. These stories remind us that the past is never gone, the dead are never silent, and the places we come from will always find their way back to us.

There’s nothing wrong with Aurora.

A successful art lawyer, she has returned to Mexico to celebrate a recent campaign for the repatriation of stolen artifacts―in particular a mysterious statue of an Aztec god, The Flayed One.

But Mexico City isn’t as she remembered. Nothing is. Elements of her past hint at darkness and power, and reality begins to crack and warp the streets.

There’s nothing wrong with Aurora.

As Aurora’s sanity unravels, she must pry apart her family’s secrets and accept the simplest of truths: The Flayed One cannot stay buried.

When Papi Ramon, the patriarch of the wealthy Abreu family dies

10/13/2026

📚 October 13, 2026 - New Releases! 📚
Swipe 👉🏻 through for a short description of each new release!

✨ You can shop them all now at bookhavenbooks.com ✨

📖 Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones

A ragtag group of activists plan a mission to repatriate the bones of a Blackfeet boy who was sent to the infamous Carlisle Indian Industrial School in author Stephen Graham Jones’s return to the Blackfeet reservation of his award-winning New York Times bestsellers The Only Good Indians and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.

📖 Don’t Leave Her Alone by Desirée De Fez

An alternative Nightbitch set in Barcelona for fans of Fever Dream, following three mothers who are linked by the tentacles that live inside of them.

📖 It Looks Like You in the Dark by Mathilda Zeller

Tapeesa is newly out of high school and working in a fish processing plant in the Inupiat village, Chukchi, where she’s lived her whole life. Maybe that’s why people tend to assume she isn’t that bright―or maybe her mama is right and she does have bad blood. Either way, she knows the legend, and she knows the history. Her Ahna told her that the hungry creature―the kushtuka―appears to us in the form of someone we love. It will try to get us to follow it. Follow it where? Those who have gone no longer have throats to tell us.

📖 Another Name for Red by Amber Blaeser-Wardzala

The debut novel by one of the bestselling Never Whistle at Night’s most memorable contributors, in which, after a young Anishinaabe woman vanishes, her sister tries to pick up the pieces of her broken family, even as her investigations put her at risk of suffering a similar fate.

📖 What the Forest Devours by Elaine Vilar Madruga

In this award-winning horror novel from Latin America, a community of women and children—and one man—fight for survival in a harsh and terrifying Cuban rainforest where the gods require appeasement through brutal sacrifice.

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