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.

Upcoming Events

AUTHOR TALKS AT BLOOMSBURY

Paul Condon will be discussing his book “How Compassion Works: A Step-By-Step Guide to Cultivating Well-Being, Love, and Wisdom” with Cody Christopherson

Monday July 21st, 7:00 to 8:00 pm

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Upcoming New Books

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Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

By Mary Roach

September 16th, 2025

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From the New York Times best-selling author of Stiff and Fuzz, a rollicking exploration of the quest to re-create the impossible complexities of human anatomy.

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The Academy

By Elin Hilderbrand

September 16th, 2025

#1 bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand teams up with her daughter, Shelby Cunningham, to deliver a dishy, page-turning novel following an intertwined cast of characters over the course of one drama-filled year at a New England boarding school.

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The Bewitching

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia

July 15th , 2025

Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.

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Circle of Days

By Ken Follett

September 23rd, 2025

From a bestselling author of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world’s greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge.

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Amity

By Nathan Harris

September 2nd, 2025

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Sweetness of Water comes a gripping story about a brother and sister, emancipated from slavery but still searching for true freedom, and their odyssey across the deserts of Mexico to escape a former master still intent on their bondage.

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The Impossible Fortune: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery

By Richard Osman

September 30th , 2025

The unmissable new mystery in the Thursday Murder Club series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Osman. Who’s got time to think about murder when there’s a wedding to plan?

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Gone Before Goodbye

By Harlan Coben and Reese Witherspoon

October 14th, 2025

Combining the storytelling talents of Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben into one masterpiece of suspense fiction, Gone Before Goodbye is the unforgettable story of an indomitable woman, trapped in a conspiracy she helped create but can’t understand.

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Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy

By Joyce Vance

October 21st, 2025

The first book from Joyce White Vance: equal parts civics class, history lesson, and call to save the Republic, Giving Up Is Unforgivable is a political manifesto for our present moment.

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

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Is A River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane

“Hailed in the New York Times as “a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler,” Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law. Macfarlane takes readers on three unforgettable journeys teeming with extraordinary peop…

The Doorman by Chris Pavone

“A pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon and The Expats. Chicky Diaz is everyone’s favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most famous apartment house in the world, home of celebrities, financiers, and New York’s cultural elite. Up in the penthouse, Emily Longworth has the perfect-looking everything, all except her husband, whom she’d quietly loathed even before the recent revelations about where all the mon…

The Emperor Of Gladness by Ocean Vuong

“One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual re…

Speak To Me Of Home by Jeanine Cummins

“On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to start over in the American Midwest, unleashing a fleet of disappointments. In the 1980s, against the backdrop of her mother’s isolation in St. Louis, Missouri, Rafaela’s daughter, Ruth, wants only to belong. Eager to fit in…

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them. From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing memoir exposes both the personal and the political fallout when unfettered power an…

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until–betrayed and brokenhearted–she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeep…

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

“A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon. Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore. Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nur…

Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

Victorian Psycho is the perfect wintery, gothic horror, full of suspense and blood. We follow the Pounds family’s new governess, Miss Winifred Notty, as she progressively loses her grip on reality. Behaving in strange ways, unsettling all those around her, Winifred’s story becomes progressively more morbid and grotesque as the novel unfolds. Victorian Psycho is the perfect book for fans of the creepy and macabre. -Riley

The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny

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