Candescent Books

Candescent Books Indie black-owned bookstore dedicated to cultivating community through books &book-adjacent products

Heyyy 👋🏽👋🏽👀A little late with positing our pop up schedule this month 😬 — my birthday was yesterday 💃🏽which means I've b...
02/09/2025

Heyyy 👋🏽👋🏽👀

A little late with positing our pop up schedule this month 😬 — my birthday was yesterday 💃🏽which means I've been celebrating it all month so far 🥳

On to even better news: we're back to popping up the THIRD WEEKEND OF EACH MONTH! Super excited to be popping up with for their Black Makers Market out in Sugarland and to be back at Native Coffee popping up during their Anniversary Celebration!!

We'll have our new Beeswax Romance Tropes candles and thoughtfully curated book collections, including new releases, must-reads by black authors, and a refresh of poetry of our poetry stock!

📌 Black Makers Market Pop Up
SATURDAY, FEB. 15
🗺️ Sugar Land Town Square
⌚️11a to 3p

📌Native Coffee Pop Up
SUNDAY, FEB. 16
🗺️1712 W Dallas St
⌚️10a to 2p

Excited to be back at it!! Can't wait to see you!! 🤎

Used books, new books, fiction, poetry, hand poured candles, books by black authors, bookish candles

Happy Publication Day to these two highly anticipated novels!!! Personally excited to dig into these myself 😋 • The Love...
02/04/2025

Happy Publication Day to these two highly anticipated novels!!!

Personally excited to dig into these myself 😋

• The Love Lyric by Kristina Forest
• Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray

Snippets of 2024 ✨Immensely thankful to you all for such a beautiful and fun year! To many more & even better adventures...
12/31/2024

Snippets of 2024 ✨

Immensely thankful to you all for such a beautiful and fun year!

To many more & even better adventures in 2025 📚🥂🤍

no pop ups this month (nor in January). But ☝🏽no need to fret, our pop ups will resume in February 💕, and we'll have pre...
12/07/2024

no pop ups this month (nor in January). But ☝🏽no need to fret, our pop ups will resume in February 💕, and we'll have pretty good deals on our website each month until then!

In the meantime, we'll still be working on your online orders throughout the remainder of the year (in between holidays, of course), planning for 2025, dispersing free books throughout neighborhoods, and trying to slip in some therapeutic reading.

Head to the website to indulge in our gifts to you this holiday season:

🎁 3-BOOK BUNDLE [shes backkkk]
• bundle any 3 books for $2 off
• offer is available now until 12/31

🎁 BOGO CANDLES [newbie]
• buy any 1 candle, get a second candle for 20%
• offer starts 12/9 and ends 12/15

🎁 FALL CANDLES SALE [almost gone]
• 25% off remaining fall candles
• offer starts 12/16 thru 12/31
• we're almost out so this is only valid while supplies last!

🤶🏽🛷 *Packages needed by December 24 will need to be ordered by 12/15 (for standard/ground shipping) or 12/16 (for express/priority shipping) to allow us time to process & ship orders by USPS shipping deadlines*

📚 Also, if you're in need of shedding your fiction book collection, let us do it for you! We'll donate them, keep them for the store, or gift them to businesses and little free libraries in Houston! DM us for pick up/ drop off coordination.

Happy Cozy Reading ☺️🤍

fiction books, holiday bookish candles, book bundle deals, book sale, candle sale, Christmas gifts, little free library, free books, book donations, donate books

Happy Small Business Saturday ✨Very thankful to be participating in Black Friday and Small Business Saturday this year! ...
11/30/2024

Happy Small Business Saturday ✨

Very thankful to be participating in Black Friday and Small Business Saturday this year! And thankful to our community here and from afar, new customers and those that return, supporters via Libro and Bookshop, angelic mentors and fruitful partnerships!

Wishing magical experiences for all the small businesses and independent bookstores out here spreading creativity and love throughout our beloved neighborhoods.

Behind the scenes of our festive scents, Naughty or Nice, Mulled W**e, and Holiday Party 🎄🍷🍾One medium sized coffee can ...
11/14/2024

Behind the scenes of our festive scents, Naughty or Nice, Mulled W**e, and Holiday Party 🎄🍷🍾

One medium sized coffee can power about 75 handpoured candles.

Available online, at Native Coffee and my pop ups beginning this weekend!!!
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This month we are popping up and out! Our holiday candles launch this month 🎄and will debut at Divine Market! More on th...
11/10/2024

This month we are popping up and out! Our holiday candles launch this month 🎄and will debut at Divine Market! More on this later...

In addtion to our normal pop up schedule, we'll have pop ups on and ! 50% off fall candles • free holiday catalogs • mini candles with each $40+ order •book and candle gifts and more!

🍺📚Saturday, 11/16 - Divine Market
📍Eureka Heights Brew Co (941 18th St)
⏱️2p to 7p

☕️📚Sunday, 11/17
📍Native Coffee (1712 W Dallas St)
⏱️10a to 2p

🛍️Black Friday, 11/29
📍Native Coffee
⏱️10a to 2p

✨Small Business Saturday, 11/30
📍Native Coffee
⏱️10a to 2p

Bookish candles, fiction books, books and coffee, books and b**r, holiday candles, fall candle sale, book bundle deals

We'll be back in SEPTEMBER — same time, same place! 🪩+☕️Lots of exciting things coming up! — Stay tuned (:
08/07/2024

We'll be back in SEPTEMBER — same time, same place! 🪩+☕️

Lots of exciting things coming up! — Stay tuned (:

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