People's Book
@peoplesbooktakoma.com
Mom 'n pop bookshop in downtown Takoma Park, MD. New books, hot zines, and Sunday storytimes. We're DC City Paper's Best Bookstore of 2025 (and 2024) 👍
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We're ready to sleigh December. We promise when you come to visit, your heart will grow three sizes!
Holiday Hours:
12/7: 8am-8pm
12/24: 9am-5pm
12/25: Closed
1/1: 11am-8pm
Special Order Deadline: 12/15
Free gift wrapping every day!
Holiday Hours:
12/7: 8am-8pm
12/24: 9am-5pm
12/25: Closed
1/1: 11am-8pm
Special Order Deadline: 12/15
Free gift wrapping every day!
Our stickers just got more interesting. Welcome, #dungeoncrawlercarl, we've been waiting for you. Come check out our new locally created stickers!
December 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Our stickers just got more interesting. Welcome, #dungeoncrawlercarl, we've been waiting for you. Come check out our new locally created stickers!
D.C.'s best holiday gift: Experiences from local businesses share.google/PGqp5FCAwoCy...
D.C.'s best holiday gift: Experiences from local businesses
The best present is … the promise of future presents, especially when they celebrate our city.
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December 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Wrap a book blind? Challenge accepted.
December 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Wrap a book blind? Challenge accepted.
This year's been hard. Full stop. Introducing our Giving Tree! @libro.fm & @bookshop.org are helping us decorate it with free gift cards & audio credits. You can help too by sending an online gift card to info@peoplesbooktakoma.com - we'll post it on the tree for ya 🎄 peoplesbooktakoma.com/giftcard/
December 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This year's been hard. Full stop. Introducing our Giving Tree! @libro.fm & @bookshop.org are helping us decorate it with free gift cards & audio credits. You can help too by sending an online gift card to info@peoplesbooktakoma.com - we'll post it on the tree for ya 🎄 peoplesbooktakoma.com/giftcard/
We're ready to sleigh December. We promise when you come to visit, your heart will grow three sizes!
Holiday Hours:
12/7: 8am-8pm
12/24: 9am-5pm
12/25: Closed
1/1: 11am-8pm
Special Order Deadline: 12/15
Free gift wrapping every day!
Holiday Hours:
12/7: 8am-8pm
12/24: 9am-5pm
12/25: Closed
1/1: 11am-8pm
Special Order Deadline: 12/15
Free gift wrapping every day!
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
We're ready to sleigh December. We promise when you come to visit, your heart will grow three sizes!
Holiday Hours:
12/7: 8am-8pm
12/24: 9am-5pm
12/25: Closed
1/1: 11am-8pm
Special Order Deadline: 12/15
Free gift wrapping every day!
Holiday Hours:
12/7: 8am-8pm
12/24: 9am-5pm
12/25: Closed
1/1: 11am-8pm
Special Order Deadline: 12/15
Free gift wrapping every day!
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Wanna rock?! Come to storytime at @peoplesbooktakoma.com in Takoma Park, MD on Sun. 11/30 at 9:30 am!
November 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Wanna rock?! Come to storytime at @peoplesbooktakoma.com in Takoma Park, MD on Sun. 11/30 at 9:30 am!
If you can't shop with us this weekend, shop at another local indie ❤️ If you can't shop in person, shop @bookshop.org for free shipping all weekend 📦
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
If you can't shop with us this weekend, shop at another local indie ❤️ If you can't shop in person, shop @bookshop.org for free shipping all weekend 📦
Your mom told me she wants to take your baby to storytime at the bookstore tomorrow morning at 9am. She said you should sleep in. It's been a long day. 😉
❤️ Happy Thanksgiving to all the lovely visiting grandparents! ❤️
❤️ Happy Thanksgiving to all the lovely visiting grandparents! ❤️
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Your mom told me she wants to take your baby to storytime at the bookstore tomorrow morning at 9am. She said you should sleep in. It's been a long day. 😉
❤️ Happy Thanksgiving to all the lovely visiting grandparents! ❤️
❤️ Happy Thanksgiving to all the lovely visiting grandparents! ❤️
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A note from our CEO Andy Hunter expressing our gratitude for our extended book family and stressing the importance of supporting independent bookstores this holiday season and beyond 💜
November 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A note from our CEO Andy Hunter expressing our gratitude for our extended book family and stressing the importance of supporting independent bookstores this holiday season and beyond 💜
We're open til 8 today, closed Thanksgiving. If you need to escape your family or stock up for some introvert time tomorrow, come see us! Our shelves are full!
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We're open til 8 today, closed Thanksgiving. If you need to escape your family or stock up for some introvert time tomorrow, come see us! Our shelves are full!
This holiday season, practice a little Shelf Care. After a long year, treat yourself (and the people you
love) to something comforting: time in your favorite indie bookstore. Books, gift cards, or pre-orders —
they all say, “You deserve this.” #shopsmall #shopindie #shoplocal #shelfcare
love) to something comforting: time in your favorite indie bookstore. Books, gift cards, or pre-orders —
they all say, “You deserve this.” #shopsmall #shopindie #shoplocal #shelfcare
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This holiday season, practice a little Shelf Care. After a long year, treat yourself (and the people you
love) to something comforting: time in your favorite indie bookstore. Books, gift cards, or pre-orders —
they all say, “You deserve this.” #shopsmall #shopindie #shoplocal #shelfcare
love) to something comforting: time in your favorite indie bookstore. Books, gift cards, or pre-orders —
they all say, “You deserve this.” #shopsmall #shopindie #shoplocal #shelfcare
Thank you to our new friends at Blair High School for choosing People's Book for their documentary project 😁♥️🎥 Y'all did a wonderful job!
youtu.be/EVozmhPVzzU
youtu.be/EVozmhPVzzU
People's Book - A Local Bookshop
YouTube video by Dylan Ward
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November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Thank you to our new friends at Blair High School for choosing People's Book for their documentary project 😁♥️🎥 Y'all did a wonderful job!
youtu.be/EVozmhPVzzU
youtu.be/EVozmhPVzzU
Get ahead on your reading! Here's a look at December book clubs -- always free, always fun! Low stakes, high reward :) See you there!
November 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Get ahead on your reading! Here's a look at December book clubs -- always free, always fun! Low stakes, high reward :) See you there!
Here you can see Amazon's book recommendation algorithm in action
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Here you can see Amazon's book recommendation algorithm in action
The latest Bestsellers just dropped!
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The latest Bestsellers just dropped!
Got a While Elephant party on the horizon? Secret Santa? Need a gag gift? Here are some of the bestseller books you never thought you needed 🤣
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Got a While Elephant party on the horizon? Secret Santa? Need a gag gift? Here are some of the bestseller books you never thought you needed 🤣
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Join us @peoplesbooktakoma.com on December 1 to discuss Gate of the Sun and @archipelagobooks.bsky.social. It’s free to join! DM me for information or just come by. #ReadIndie
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Join us @peoplesbooktakoma.com on December 1 to discuss Gate of the Sun and @archipelagobooks.bsky.social. It’s free to join! DM me for information or just come by. #ReadIndie
November 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Shrinky dink charms, gimp keychains & bracelets, DIY fabric scrunchies. Need I say more? These are the crafts that will compliment the 90s Boozy Bookfair this Saturday! Do you have your ticket yet?! Time is running out!
@merrypindc.bsky.social
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@merrypindc.bsky.social
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November 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Shrinky dink charms, gimp keychains & bracelets, DIY fabric scrunchies. Need I say more? These are the crafts that will compliment the 90s Boozy Bookfair this Saturday! Do you have your ticket yet?! Time is running out!
@merrypindc.bsky.social
www.merrypindc.com/product/booz...
@merrypindc.bsky.social
www.merrypindc.com/product/booz...
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Borrowing from the traditional alphabet book genre for children, Sharon Sliwinski's book offers a captivating look at how dreams provide a powerful way to understand & change our world. Celebrate the launch of "An Alphabet for Dreamers" with her at @peoplesbooktakoma.com!
📅 Sat. Nov. 8th
🕓 6:00 PM
📅 Sat. Nov. 8th
🕓 6:00 PM
Sharon Sliwinski for An Alphabet for Dreamers
A captivating and trailblazing look at how dreams serve as one of our most powerful ways to understand—and radically change—our world. Borrowing from the traditional alphabet book genre for childre…
peoplesbooktakoma.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Borrowing from the traditional alphabet book genre for children, Sharon Sliwinski's book offers a captivating look at how dreams provide a powerful way to understand & change our world. Celebrate the launch of "An Alphabet for Dreamers" with her at @peoplesbooktakoma.com!
📅 Sat. Nov. 8th
🕓 6:00 PM
📅 Sat. Nov. 8th
🕓 6:00 PM
🎀Bestseller Time! 🎀
November 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🎀Bestseller Time! 🎀
🚨4pm & 5pm timed entry tickets are sold out for our 90s Throwback Boozy Bookfair on 11/8! We have a few tix left for 6-8pm, grab 'em while you can!
May your dreams be full of holographic Lisa Frank with a whiff of jolly rancher scratch 'n sniff.
RSVP: www.merrypindc.com/product/booz...
May your dreams be full of holographic Lisa Frank with a whiff of jolly rancher scratch 'n sniff.
RSVP: www.merrypindc.com/product/booz...
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🚨4pm & 5pm timed entry tickets are sold out for our 90s Throwback Boozy Bookfair on 11/8! We have a few tix left for 6-8pm, grab 'em while you can!
May your dreams be full of holographic Lisa Frank with a whiff of jolly rancher scratch 'n sniff.
RSVP: www.merrypindc.com/product/booz...
May your dreams be full of holographic Lisa Frank with a whiff of jolly rancher scratch 'n sniff.
RSVP: www.merrypindc.com/product/booz...
We are so thankful for this wonderful community. Please consider yourself formally invited to our forthcoming author events!
November 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
We are so thankful for this wonderful community. Please consider yourself formally invited to our forthcoming author events!
Publishers Weekly named THE LOST TREES OF WILLOW AVENUE one of the top 25 best nonfiction books of 2025! No wonder Mike Tidwell is topping the People's Book charts every week! So proud of Takoma Park's local authors...and trees :)
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Best Books 2025: Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly
Best Books 2025, Best Nonfiction Books, Philippe Sands, Greg Grandin, Andrea Long Chu, Lana Lin, Nicholas Boggs, Sarah Chihaya, Caleb Gayle, Michael Thomas, Peter Guralnick, Sim Kern, Jacob Silverman,...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Publishers Weekly named THE LOST TREES OF WILLOW AVENUE one of the top 25 best nonfiction books of 2025! No wonder Mike Tidwell is topping the People's Book charts every week! So proud of Takoma Park's local authors...and trees :)
best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...
best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...
We are so honored to host Bishop Budde at People's Book this Saturday at 4pm in conversation with @robertpjones.bsky.social - we could all use some guidance on bravery in the face of bullies and how to navigate this period of injustice.
RSVP at peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/be-bra...
RSVP at peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/be-bra...
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for We Can be Brave
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde is no stranger to bravery in the face of bullies. In this adaptation of her New York Times bestselling How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith, Bisho…
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October 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
We are so honored to host Bishop Budde at People's Book this Saturday at 4pm in conversation with @robertpjones.bsky.social - we could all use some guidance on bravery in the face of bullies and how to navigate this period of injustice.
RSVP at peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/be-bra...
RSVP at peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/be-bra...