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Monday 9am - 7:30pm Tuesday 9am - 7:30pm Wednesday 9am - 7:30pm Thursday 9am - 7:30pm Friday 9am - 7:30pm Saturday 9am - 7:30pm Sunday 9am - 6pm

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Grassroots Books

We’re a fast-growing, independent bookstore with prices so low, people ask how we stay in business. Literacy! We love people! We love books!
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06/13/2026

Haha this is national news. Raise your hand if you bought more than 100 books in one day from Grassroots! ha ha ha ha hahaha

05/02/2026

“But how does the Outside Sale work?”

On Mondays we reset with fresh books — just $1 EACH.
- The first photo is Monday afternoon this week.
- We add more books every day, and usually have around 10,000 by Wednesday/Thursday.
- The last photo is from yesterday (Friday).
- On Sundays, you can FILL YOUR OWN BAGS FOR JUST $5/BAG.
- Then Monday we start the whole cycle over again with fresh books.
- We also have new books that were damaged or overstock at other retailers, still $1.

You’ll find everything from 2024/2025 bestsellers to kids books with creased covers, older nonfiction without dust jackets, and even 100-year-old books - sometimes that are literally in pieces. Most are in very good shape, and it’s definitely a treasure hunt.

The sale runs ALL DAY, EVERY DAY, ALL YEAR — weather permitting.

SELLING OR DONATING BOOKS?
- During buying hours (9–11am, Monday–Thursday only), we buy what we can use in the store and the rest can go to the Outside Sale.
- Typically, we pay $.20 each for comics, Blurays and vinyl records (except not Classical music as we usually have more than people want to buy).
- We don’t pay for books we know are going straight to the $1 sale.
- At the Donation Station outside, to the right of the entrance, you can get help to unload books, CDs, DVDs, vinyl, board games, puzzles, and more (Just a heads up — we’re not a real nonprofit. But we try to be awesome in all the ways!)
- Thank you so much!!

Anyone who comments with photos of treasures from Grassroots gets $5 OFF ANY PURCHASE. Use the secret code, “I helped you on social media for $5 off.” Only through this Wednesday, limit 1/person. Also, thank you so much!

DRUMROLL... HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO DAVID, our so-very-spectacular team member for the last few years, who is a manager at age 18, and heading to the Big Apple to the Ivy League college there ON A FULL RIDE SCHOLARSHIP including books, food etc! Yay David!!!

04/16/2026

A FREE book for everyone! Show us this image on your phone, and choose a FREE book from our $1 Outside Sale.

This week’s Outside Sale is huuuuge! We have comics, nonfiction such as jazz books, and more than 10,000 books total. They’re DIFFERENT BOOKS FROM WEEK TO WEEK because we start over after $5 Bag Sale on Sundays.

Also, did you know that most students and even teachers have NEVER EVER been to Grassroots Books? We offer Free Book Cards for everyone, including staff.

Alice Maxwell Elementary is getting in on it! Their kids will learn how to use a bookstore and swap books with their friends.

We are rooting for all kids in our town to develop good skills. It seems like HALF of 20 year olds CAN’T WRITE a basic business email.

Limit one free book/year/person!

Also, we have stickers for people who want to help with a NEW LITERACY NONPROFIT!

…We are seeking people to be in the core team and launch team. The idea is that kids who are low on cash can select books. Contact Zoe at [email protected] or 775-848-8781.

…Also, bring kids for free books tomorrow and the next day - let us know at [email protected].

04/03/2026

UPDATE: Donate in person or with this link: https://square.link/u/NiFMQKXN

ALERT: Some POM-POM LEGEND in a shiny 2000s Ford Focus just sprinted into our bookstore and SNATCHED our entire “Give A Kid A Book” jar.

$13 vanished faster than his dignity. If he had any in the first place.

If you recognize this MICRO-VILLAIN (or car), please report to Reno Police — case #260103121.

And feel free to get his photo printed on a coffee mug… or dartboard. Bonus points if you use it as a target for throwing knives. We won’t judge. Except - bruh - duuuude!

But hey, we’re not letting it ruin the day.

Let’s turn this dirty deed into a full-blown BOOK GIVEAWAY event.

That jar is basically “pay it forward”, except instead of buying the person behind you a coffee, it gets BOOKS FOR KIDS. Books that they actually want to read.

So we’re launching the $13 ANTI-VILLAIN CLUB.

DONATE $13 OR MORE to the Give A Kid A Book Fund, and we’ll hand you a glorious commemorative sticker in the next week or so.

HERE’S GOOD NEWS: We can still help kids get a book they love! Bring kids who are low on funds! We’ve got a STORE FULL of books to pick from.

Planning to bring 10 or more kids? Email [email protected] so we can make it happen.

ELITE ANTI-THIEF TIERS (for any book donation legends out there)
$169 (13²) Tier - Wings of Fire dramatic standing photo op + private midnight release party for you and friends. We’ll even let you “steal” bookmarks without feeling like a criminal.
$2197 (13³) Tier - Full Book Heist Experience: We give you a cape, dramatically reenact the dirty deed in slow motion, and invite a bunch of kids to load up on free books
$13,000+ or “Sponsor a Foster Kid Book Avalanche” Tier - We’re still brainstorming the name (this idea is literally hours old), but expect legendary status, naming rights, and enough books to make the original thief’s Ford Focus look like the world’s saddest clown car by comparison.

Got better name ideas? Hit us — we’re all ears.

Who’s joining the Anti-Thievery Club and helping us make this honestly-rather-pathetic stunt the best thing that ever happened to our book fund?

(Also, everyone still gets a Free Book from our $1 Outside Sale, limit one/year. That’s a different gift from us. But also, we’re only keeping pennies in the donation jar now. As soon as we see there’s $1 in the jar, we drop it.)

Also, to the 300 or so people who already paid it forward, we adore you!

03/27/2026

April is Local Authors Month, and we have 100+ books. Some new releases are selling like hotcakes: “In the Glow of the Sierra” and “In the Shadow of the Sierra” by Tami Force and “Finding Nevada Wild” by Sydney Martinez. Discover gold mines, wagon trails, forgotten graves and more.

Many books are still looking to find their first home, and we love them already. Some are:
- “Time Pencils: A Novel of WW2 and the Cretan Resistance” by Lola Katherine Giusti
- “Unfinished Business” ( a murder mystery taking place in 1969) by Ken Sutherland
- “The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War” by Renata Keller

There are three endcaps for your browsing pleasure, with new books arriving and getting restocked.

Local authors: if you would like your book here, find the link in the comments (or on Instagram on our story highlight labeled Local Authors).

(We had been planning to host an event kickoff on April 1, but are not able to to this year).

02/27/2026

$1 Outside Sale: 400 records including jazz, blues and 1940s/50s.

Also, 500 new-slightly-damaged kids and adult books (different from last week). All together, 4,000 books of all genres!

Even in the winter: $5 bag sales on Sundays—you get to fill bags with books you like from the Outside Sale.

And as always, happy reading, friends! 💚

02/24/2026

Easton Press books are arriving!

More will hit the shelves over the next few days. Many are still in the original shrink wrap, and some were in their original shipping box!

As usual, vintage books are included in our wallet-friendly prices for books without a price sticker: $4.99 for hardcovers and $2.99 for paperbacks.

Mmmm, the smell of 100 year-old books! 💚

02/07/2026

Valentine’s Day not your holiday?-Just go on a date with a book instead (because let’s be real- a book will never let you down)

Or Valentine’s Day is your holiday, then buy your date a book! (Because, as we all know, a book will never let you down 😉)

01/29/2026

Update: now arriving in the $1 Outside Sale: 1000 blu-ray.

Until Saturday, buy 15 $1 Outside Sale books, get 5 free! 🤩

Just say the secret code: “five free for me” 📚

Choose from 5000 used/new kids and adult books!

Outside Sale hours: 9am-5pm (Jan-Feb, will be later with the seasons)
Store hours: 9am-7:30pm

Happy reading friends 💚

01/23/2026

New year, new Free Book Card!

Everyone gets one Free Book Card per year to use on our $1 Outside Sale!

The Outside Sale kicks off every Monday with fresh inventory. Each day we add about 1000 books, so that by Sunday the lot is FULL of thousands of awesome books!

Right now we have 3000+NEW, but slightly damaged books in the Outdoor Sale, along with a plethora of used books to choose from.

Stop by to come snag your free book card and, as always, happy reading! 😌

Address

660 East Grove St
Reno, NV
89502

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 7:30pm
Tuesday	9am - 7:30pm
Wednesday	9am - 7:30pm
Thursday	9am - 7:30pm
Friday	9am - 7:30pm
Saturday	9am - 7:30pm
Sunday	9am - 6pm

Telephone

+17758282665

Website

http://www.grassrootsbooks.com/

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