Box Turtle Books

09/05/2026

We love our local farmers so much!! 🧡📚🐢🥬

09/05/2026

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We have our first SMALL BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT SATURDAY WINNER!!!

Thank you for taking the time to support our small business and helping grow our community ♥️

Say hi to the awesome folks at Box Turtle Books for us!

09/04/2026

Hi readers! BTB will be briefly closed for a few upcoming days, starting with an early closure at 3:00 PM on Saturday, September 5th and continuing through Thursday, September 10th. We'll miss you!

Our regular hours will resume on Friday, September 11th.

Don't forget that you can shop thousands of great titles online and have them delivered straight to your door using Bookshop! https://bookshop.org/shop/boxturtlebookstore

09/02/2026

We have several new and recent releases in stock at the shop, including Dèy by Edwidge Danticat and The Disappearers by Marlon James! Plus, we've restocked layflat journals from Denik, created a table full of Halloween reads for kiddos, and there's a cart full of discounted titles--one of which might just be your next great read!

09/02/2026

"It's not just ‘brain rot,’ it’s the intentional, predictable result of decades of divestment in public education, libraries, class warfare, attacks on books in general, overworked and under-resourced parents, and an attention economy incentivizing us all to keep consuming without thinking.” (Jazzi McGilbert)

If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a slightly less provocative story; while it may portend doom, Rose Horowitch’s piece makes a smal...

09/01/2026

Book Club picks for September are in! This month, our clubs are reading...

🕷️ Eastern Sci-Fi & Fantasy: Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
🪦 Horror: Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
🍂 Adult Romance: Autumn at the Cat Cafe by Kathleen Fuller
🧳 Roaming Readers: Sublimation by Isabel J Kim & Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

FYI! The Eastern Sci-Fi & Fantasy Club dates for this month will be Septmber 3rd and 22nd.

08/29/2026

Have you heard?? Gardner-Webb University students deserve a good book and a great place to read it. Luckily Uptown Shelby, NC has both of those things 😘

From one dawg to another, thanks for showing up today! We ran out of student totes 20 minutes into the event, sold tons of good books + stickers, and met so many new and returning GWU students. BTB is happy you’re here! ❤️🐾

08/26/2026

"I’m thinking about how radical the whole enterprise of the Imagination Library really is in a country with declining literacy rates. It’s one thing to donate your money to make sure children have books, but Dolly had the idea to send [...] the same book, the same promise, regardless of what insurance people can afford or what their school districts might be able to provide."

I signed my first baby up for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library when she was one week old, at the advice of her pediatrician. It was May 2020, and the pandemic was just beginning to close its fist…

08/25/2026

Now that I’m my own manager, I find myself saying this a *lot* 🥲 This book (+ many more!) have arrived in-store today. Swing by to pick up your next great read!