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”

Monday July 28th, 7:00 to 8:00 pm

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Barry Kraft will be reading the Poetry of some of his Favorite Poets

Monday June 16th 7:00 to 8:00 pm

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Shellee Rae will be reading from both SAMM Speaks and SAMM Speaks II.

Monday June 30th 7:00 to 8:00 pm

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Zebith Thalden discusses her art guidebook “The Insect Artist: How to Observe, Draw, and Paint Butterflies, Bees, and More”

Monday June 9th 7:00 to 8:00 pm

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Upcoming New Books

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BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL

BY V.E. SCHWAB

June 10th, 2025

From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.

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NEVER FLINCH

By Stephen King

May 27th, 2025

Stephen King comes with an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines–one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker–featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic new cast of characters.

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Is a River Alive?

By Robert McFarlane

May 20th, 2025

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.

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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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Flashlight: A Novel

By Susan Choi

June 3rd, 2025

A thrilling, globe-spanning novel on memory, identity, and what it means to be in a family (and to lose one), from the award-winning author of Trust Exercise.

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The River is Waiting

By Wally Lamb

June 10th, 2025

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable.

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Atmosphere: A Love Story

By Taylor Jenkins Reid

June 3rd, 2025

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.

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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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So Far Gone

By Jess Walter

June 10th, 2025

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins–and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis’ True Grit–comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.

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

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

The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Quâebec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sãuretâe, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly knows who is on the other end. When he finall…

The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister

“Five siblings in West Virginia unearth long-buried secrets when the supernatural bargain entwining their fate with their ancestral land is suddenly ruptured. Since time immemorial, the Haddesley family has tended the cranberry bog. In exchange, the bog sustains them. The staunch seasons of their lives are governed by a strict covenant that is renewed each generation with the ritual sacrifice of their patriarch, and in return, the bog produces a “bog-wife.” Brought to life from vegetation, this…

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

“With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters–Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more–as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, ‘What does anyone’s life mean?’ It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an…

The God of The Woods by Liz Moore

When Barbara Van Laar is discovered missing from her summer camp bunk one morning in August 1975, it triggers a panicked, terrified search. Losing a camper is a horrific tragedy under any circumstances, but Barbara isn’t just any camper, she’s the daughter of the wealthy family who owns the camp–as well as the opulent nearby estate, and most of the land in sight. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared in this region: Barbara’s older brother also went missing 16 years ea…