Bridgeside Books

Bridgeside Books Waterbury, Vermont's independent bookstore - Find ways to engage your mind! Plus, bespoke literary events that are off the hook!

New books mostly, with a small selection of used books, as well as games, art supplies, gifts, tea, and more!

Nearly a full house for Danielle Callegari's talk on her book A Bite-Sized History of Italy, co-hosted with VT Italian C...
08/14/2026

Nearly a full house for Danielle Callegari's talk on her book A Bite-Sized History of Italy, co-hosted with VT Italian Cultural Association. This book is the perfect recipe of easily digestible history mixed with flavorful nerdy facts! If you love food, love Italy, or love history, this is for you! We're sold out after tonight but more are on the way 👍

P. S. Someone left a lightweight windbreaker in the bathroom. Email [email protected] to claim it!

USED BOOKS NEEDED ⚠️ Call for DonationsUsed Books are flying off the shelves faster than donations are arriving! Thanks ...
08/13/2026

USED BOOKS NEEDED ⚠️ Call for Donations

Used Books are flying off the shelves faster than donations are arriving! Thanks to your Used Book shopping, we were able to donate $500 to the Waterbury Roundabout generated from Used Book Sales in the past six months!

Here's what we accept:
✅ Middle Grade Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Adult Fiction, Select Adult Nonfiction
✅ Recent titles published in the last 5-10 years
✅ Books that match what we sell on our new book shelves

We do NOT accept:
✖️ Mass market
✖️ Hardcover books without jackets
✖️ James Patterson, Nora Roberts, Clive Cussler, etc.
✖️ Moldy, wet, stinky, yucky books
✖️ Textbooks, religious materials

Bring your books by, max of 20 books per visit, and our booksellers will look through and take what we can!

Thank you all for bringing your recent reads our way, emptying your kid's and teen's shelves as they grow up, and keeping our Used Book program thriving.

Do NOT leave book donations outside the store for donation. Don't you dare!

Get out and VOTE, friends! Vermont State primary elections are today for Governor, Lt Governor, state senators and repre...
08/11/2026

Get out and VOTE, friends! Vermont State primary elections are today for Governor, Lt Governor, state senators and representatives, judges, sheriffs, and many more. Polls are open until 7pm, and here in Waterbury, head to the Brookside School at 47 Stowe Street.

Call for Short Story Submissions for our 5th annual Spooky Tales perfornance!Theme: Haunted PhotographsWord Count: 1,000...
08/09/2026

Call for Short Story Submissions for our 5th annual Spooky Tales perfornance!

Theme: Haunted Photographs
Word Count: 1,000-2,500 words
Due: Sept 1, 2026

To submit, email document as attachment to [email protected]

*Please do not submit stories brainstormed, written, or edited with the use of AI*

Spooky Tales is a two-hour fully scripted storytelling event where two actors will read and perform the 6 selected short stories in front of an audience at Bridgeside Books. We are seeking those six stories!

Submit your spooky, creepy, spine-chilling short-stories that utilize photographs and photography as a central theme. We’d love to see a haunted photo album at an antique store, a camera that captures your soul, a ghostly apparition caught on camera.

Stories should be best when read aloud and offer that creepy, goosebump feeling you expect from a ghost story told around the fire. Think “on a dark and stormy night like tonight”.

This event is aimed at mature adult audiences, but we want to feel creeped out and unsettled, not revolted and uncomfortable. Audiences enjoy a range of tones, some humorous and others lyrical and haunting. When in doubt, just submit!

Stories will be selected by the end of September and authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by early October.

Accepted authors will receive two free tickets to Spooky Tales 2026, one for themselves and one for a companion.

Spooky Tales 2026: Friday, October 23 and Saturday, October 24

Tickets on sale now! Head to our events page on our website BridgesideBooks.com

08/07/2026

The many hats of Katya!

🧢 Bookstore Owner is the big hat but underneath...

She's ordering toilet paper, scheduling employees, meeting with publisher representatives, sending emails, picking stickers, picking cards, picking chocolate, picking tea, tearing down walls, organizing the back rooms, hiring and firing, changing displays, planning new events, volunteering in the community, commiserating with customers, walking her dogs, eating ice cream, picking games, picking books, picking stuffed animals, reading books, hosting author events, recommending books, refilling the dog bowl, taking out recycling, paying taxes, paying credit card fees, paying memberships, paying employees, processing used books, riding her bike, making pizza, fighting the patriarchy, crying over children's books, feeling hopeful, feeling fulfilled, feeling disappointed, waking up for the next day to do it all again!

Cheers to Katya, bookstores, small business owners, and every other hat wearer out there!

Waldo Winner! ❤️🤍 The Waldo prize stack has made its way home with our winner! Thank you to everyone who completed their...
08/05/2026

Waldo Winner! ❤️🤍 The Waldo prize stack has made its way home with our winner!

Thank you to everyone who completed their Where's Waldo Waterbury passport this year and to the participating businesses who got in on the fun!

For now, Waldo is tucked back into his books until next July!

08/03/2026

No, I don't start this reel with an f-bomb! Although it might be apropos 😂This post is about our growing subsection of feminist dystopian novels. You probably have never heard of any of these, but you SHOULD, and that's why I'm drawing some attention to them. Wait until you hear the crazy plot parallel between A World of Women and Toxxic written over 100 years apart...

Many of these are published by the The MIT Press as part of their Radium Age series which reissues early sci-fi novels from 1900-1935 - amazing classics which might otherwise have been lost to literary history. Thanks MIT Press!


Transit Books Henry Holt & Co.

07/29/2026

Jo Piazza passed a stack of signed copies WHERE?!

⭐ Find signed copies of The Parisian Heist on the shelves at Bridgeside Books in Waterbury, Vermont!

From bestselling author Jo Piazza, dive into a propulsive dual-timeline thriller of art, secrets, ambition, and wealth.

No fights booked to Paris this summer? No problem, we're traveling by book to a city layered with mystique 📚✈️🗼🎨

07/22/2026

Why pick one book when you can have two?

🦄 The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden
💥 A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman

Let's talk about Middle Grade, Chapter Books, and graphic novels 📚 Let's build readersFirst of all, kids books are for e...
07/21/2026

Let's talk about Middle Grade, Chapter Books, and graphic novels 📚 Let's build readers

First of all, kids books are for everyone. They're for reading out loud together. They're for kids. They're for adults. They're for simple joys. They're for building confidence. They're for building empathy.

Kids can read above their grade level. They can read below their grade level.

We'd rather a kid read an "easy" book than a kid read no books.

We get it. We want growth, learning, challenge! But at the end of the day, we want readers.

Remember always that one discouraging comment can close the door forever on a lifetime of reading. Let's be the ones who open that door instead.

Address

29 Stowe St
Waterbury, VT
05676

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 3pm

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+18022441441

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