Welcome to Bloomsbury Books

An independent bookstore in downtown Ashland, Oregon

Bloomsbury Books is an independent bookstore on Main Street in downtown Ashland, Oregon, home of the world-famous Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Founded in 1980, we specialize in contemporary fiction and children’s books, but also carry a wide variety of nonfiction and local authors, and, of course, have a large Shakespeare and theater section.

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AUTHOR TALKS AT BLOOMSBURY

“Peddlers of Hate: How the Ku Klux Klan Seized Power in 1920s Oregon” with author Steve Law

Peddlers of Hate is the first comprehensive statewide history of the Ku Klux Klan in Oregon by retired Oregon jour…

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Local Author Max Doty Presents His New Novel “The House That Eats The Dead”

A family moves into their dream home—only to discover that it hides an insatiable hunger—in this dread-laced and d…

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The Poetry of Melissa Eleftherion and Lisa E Baldwin

Wednesday August 12th 7:00 to 8:00pm Melissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a writer, a librarian & a visual art…

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An Evening with Two Poets – Anna Elkins and Jacalyn McNamara

Enter a forest of poems about patience, grace, and wonder.

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“The Natural American Way of Death” with author Dr. Diana Cunningham

Learn about why certified natural burials are the only mercury-responsible choice in deathcare.

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Upcoming New Books

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Sunrise: A Novel

By Tea Obreht

August 11th, 2026

Three lives, one hundred years, one ghost town: an explosive novel about a mysterious place called Sunrise, where the secrets of the past refuse to stay buried, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife

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Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy)

BY COLSON WHITEHEAD

July 21st, 2026

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy

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Big Little Truths

BY LIANE MORIARTY

August 25th 2026

In this highly anticipated sequel, Liane Moriarty examines the complexities of modern women’s lives, shining light on family dynamics and long-hidden truths with wit and compassion. Whether you’ve read Big Little Lies or not, this is the perfect novel for longtime fans and new readers alike.

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The Pirate Queen

by ARIEL LAWHON

September 8th , 2026

A sweeping historical adventure inspired by the life of Grace O’Malley, the legendary Irish folk heroine who risked everything to defend her people. Venture onto the high seas with the thrilling latest from the New York Times bestselling author of The Frozen River and I Was Anastasia.

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Switzy: A Novel

By Emma Cline

September 8th, 2026

A mesmerizing portrait of an aging man’s last pilgrimage, from the New York Times best selling author of The Girls and The Guest.

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EXIT PARTY

By Emily St. John Mandel

September 15th, 2026

The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman–a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State–searches for answers.

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UNDER STORY

By Chloe Benjamin

September 1st, 2026

Under Story invites us to consider the promise of this life, what might lie beyond it, and how far we would go for more time with the people we love, cementing Chloe Benjamin’s place among our best, and most lasting, storytellers.

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We Chase Shadows: A We Solve Murders Mystery

By Richard Osman

September 15th, 2026

#1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Osman’s globe-trotting series “We Solve Murders” returns with the thrilling new mystery, We Chase Shadows.

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Bloomsbury Recommends

We hope you enjoy our favorite Bloomsbury Picks as much as we have!

Habits Of The Sea by Shea Ernshaw

“The night Clay Lockhart’s wife dies, a violent storm tears their home–and the eight hectares of land beneath it–away from the Scottish coast, sending it adrift into the Atlantic. Thirty years later, twelve-year-old Ellie Mills discovers the fabled floating island off the coast of Nova Scotia and finds Clay still living in the weatherworn farmhouse perched on its highest hill. When the island vanishes overnight, Ellie is left questioning whether it ever existed at all. But decades later, t…

The Children by Melissa Albert

“Guinevere Sharpe has two childhoods. In one, she and her brother, Ennis, live in the wooded shadow of their family’s isolated Vermont farmhouse; in the other, the pages of their mother’s world-famous Ninth City books, where their magical adventures have made them household names. In reality, Guinevere’s childhood isn’t the enchanted idyll her mother’s readers imagine: she and Ennis are growing up near-feral, unwashed and underfed, escaping each day to the wild woods they’ve made their playl…

Whistler by Ann Patchett

“When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn’t seen Eddie for many years, not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again, time falls away; while their relationship was brief, it ha…

Land by Maggie O’Farrell

“On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomás, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster. The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomás is unexpectedly sent…

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

“When Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train, they are immediately captivated yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had once tried to matchmake them, a clumsy meddling that served only to drive Sonia and Sunny apart. Sonia, an aspiring novelist who recently completed her studies in the snowy mountains of Vermont, has returned to her family in India. She fears that she is haunted by a dark spell cast by an artist to whom she had once turned for intim…

The Black Wolf by Louise Penny

“Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding. Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team uncovered and stopped a domestic terrorist attack in Montréal, arresting the person behind it. A man they called the Black Wolf. But their relief is short-lived. In a sickening turn of events, Gamache has realized that plot, as horrific as it was, was just the beginning. Perhaps even a deliberate misdirection. One he fell into. Something de…

What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

“From the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known. 2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife’s birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, ‘A Corona for Vivien’. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered aro…

Replaceable You by Mary Roach

Limited Quantity of Signed Copies Available! “The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what’s available–sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet canopies and breasts from petroleum by-products. Today we’re attempting to grow body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3D printers. How are we doin…

Amity by Nathan Harris

“New Orleans, 1866. The Civil War might be over, but formerly enslaved Coleman and June have yet to find the freedom they’ve been promised. Two years ago, the siblings were separated when their old master, Mr. Harper, took June away to Mexico, where he hoped to escape the new reality of the postbellum South. Coleman stayed behind in Louisiana to serve the Harper family, clinging to the hope that one day June would return. When an unexpected letter from Mr. Harper arrives, summoning Coleman to M…

Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

In this sapphic dark fantasy about vampires, V.E. Schwab explores what makes us human, and what remains when our mortality is stripped from us. With incredible tenderness and vitality, we see the innermost lives of characters, as they experience the evolution of what life looks like when its transience disappears. Ultimately a meditation on love, relationships (romantic or otherwise), power, and humanity, Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil is a departure from the standard vampire romance. What…