The Floating Bookshop

The Floating Bookshop Downtown OKC's bookstore located on 9th Street in historic Automobile Alley. New releases, classics, zines, cards, & more

Come aboard the Floating Bookshop* and rediscover the places books can take you. New releases, literary classics, fantastic tales, art, science, history, and overlooked gems of all sorts await adult and youthful readers alike. Plus a large selection of curated zines and indie comics from diverse storytellers with unique perspectives from around the globe. Remind yourself why you started reading in

the first place at the Floating Bookshop.

*n.b.: The Floating Bookshop is not seaworthy in a literal sense. Printed matter is ineffective for use as a flotation device.

This is your sign to visit an indie bookstore today.We’re open 10-6!(Painting by Derek Erdman, proudly hanging in The Fl...
05/26/2025

This is your sign to visit an indie bookstore today.
We’re open 10-6!

(Painting by Derek Erdman, proudly hanging in The Floating Bookshop)

Our awesome FedEx driver made a special stop to get us these today:The latest quarterly edition from Field Notes, the IS...
05/22/2025

Our awesome FedEx driver made a special stop to get us these today:
The latest quarterly edition from Field Notes, the IS A RIVER ALIVE? edition, which celebrates the release of Robert Macfarlane’s eponymous book with 3 different and gorgeous covers by Stanley Donwood and graph paper innards.
Come get yours (and pick up the book) today!

Sunday is Towel Day!Come celebrate the life and writing of Douglas Adams by hanging out with us.We’ll have Tea & Zines f...
05/22/2025

Sunday is Towel Day!
Come celebrate the life and writing of Douglas Adams by hanging out with us.
We’ll have Tea & Zines from 1-4, and we’re pretty much always read to talk about all things H2G2!

(And if you don’t forget your towel, you might just get a special discount)

A couple weeks ago Christopher Lee restocked us on his marvelous design/art zines Q, Flux&Form, and Cue.Plus we got copi...
05/22/2025

A couple weeks ago Christopher Lee restocked us on his marvelous design/art zines Q, Flux&Form, and Cue.
Plus we got copies of his collab with Greg Horton, the OKC (not onion) Burger Map.
Come get ‘em, then head to Bar Arbolada for a cheeseburger.

Join us at The Floating Bookshop this week for:•5/21 (TONIGHT) @ 6pm A Deep Dive in the Shallow End (our book club for b...
05/21/2025

Join us at The Floating Bookshop this week for:
•5/21 (TONIGHT) @ 6pm A Deep Dive in the Shallow End (our book club for books under 200 pages) discusses ARBOREALITY by Rebecca Campbell

•5/24 (Saturday) 's Red Dirt Reads discusses SOFT SCIENCE by Franny Choi

•5/25 (Sunday) 1-4pm TEA & ZINES
Plus we'll be celebrating TOWEL DAY in honor of Douglas Adams all day long! Don't forget your towel, you hoopy froods, and you might just get a special discount.

NEW BOOK TUESDAY GOOFIN’Here’s a few of this week’s new releases we want to highlight!Come and get ‘em while they’re hot...
05/20/2025

NEW BOOK TUESDAY GOOFIN’
Here’s a few of this week’s new releases we want to highlight!

Come and get ‘em while they’re hot, y’all!

Top to bottom rows, left to right:
THE KNIGHT & THE MOTH by Rachel Gillig

THE ART OF DRAG by Jake Hall, Sofie Birkin, Helen Li, Jasjyot Singh Hans

EVERYONE SUX BUT YOU by K Wroten

IS A RIVER ALIVE? by Robert Macfarlane

SPENT by Allison Bechdel

THE STARVING SAINTS by Caitlin Starling

THIS MAKES THAT by Ivan Brunetti

This weekend we’re celebrating TWO comic releases at the shopFriday at 7pm, we welcome Carl Antonowicz for a live perfor...
05/15/2025

This weekend we’re celebrating TWO comic releases at the shop
Friday at 7pm, we welcome Carl Antonowicz for a live performance of THE ARDENT, his new comic from Fieldmouse Press.

Saturday from noon to 4pm we’ll be partying for the release of RegularCandy’s THE LOST WIZARD from Careful Kitty Books.

And after all that inspiration, on Sunday (just like every Sunday) YOU can come have tea and make your own comics and zines with us from 1-4pm.

SATURDAY NOON TO 4PM!THE LOST WIZARD RELEASE PARTY!Come celebrate RegularCandy’s space-magic from Careful Kitty Books, a...
05/15/2025

SATURDAY NOON TO 4PM!
THE LOST WIZARD RELEASE PARTY!
Come celebrate RegularCandy’s space-magic from Careful Kitty Books, along with Dan O'Donoghue and Tanglman (who did this incredible scene of THE WIZARD vs the cyclops!)
We’ll have comics and posters for sale, along with original are, stickers, and more!
Plus some treats!
DO NOT MISS IT!

New Book Tuesday Goofin’ ON A WEDNESDAY?!?That’s right, our weekly highlights were delayed one day so we can trumpet tha...
05/14/2025

New Book Tuesday Goofin’ ON A WEDNESDAY?!?
That’s right, our weekly highlights were delayed one day so we can trumpet that book in the middle: Puppet’s Banquet by Valkyrie Loughcrewe from one of our favorite indie presses, Tenebrous, who are not bound by the Tuesday release date of the rest of the industry!

The books surrounding it are, clockwise from top left:
Lincoln Michel’s METALLIC DREAMS
Christopher Moore’s ANIMA RISING
Brendan Slocumb’s THE DARK MAESTRO
Carl Hiaasen’s FEVER BEACH
Cario de Robertis’s SO MANY STARS
Kevin Wilson’s RUN FOR THE HILLS
Ocean Vuong’s THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS
Matt Dinniman’s THE EYE OF THE BEDLAM BRIDE

Come get ‘em while they’re hot, and remember, be kind, stay weird, read books.

05/14/2025

Next week is packed here at TFB- we’ve got 3 book release celebrations, starting w/ Little OkieLand’s DIRT & SPIRIT @ 6pm Monday, then Carl Antonowicz’s performance & release of his graphic novel THE ARDENT @ 7pm Friday, May 16, & last-but-not-least, RegularCandy’s THE LOST WIZARD (w/ guest Dan O’Donoghue) from 11-4 Saturday, May 17.
And just like every Sunday, Tea & Zines happens from 1-4, now with an expanded selection of loose leaf teas from LEAP Roasters!

Be kind, stay weird, read books!

THIS FRIDAY, May 16 at 7pm, The Floating Bookshop hosts an amazing, unique experience: the OKC release of Carl Antonowic...
05/14/2025

THIS FRIDAY, May 16 at 7pm, The Floating Bookshop hosts an amazing, unique experience: the OKC release of Carl Antonowicz’s THE ARDENT from Field Mouse Press.
Antonowicz will perform a live reading (with sound effects) of this medieval fantasy graphic novel.

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3 NW 9TH Street
Oklahoma City, OK
73102

Opening Hours

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

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