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Ballast Book Company
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🐉 Rad indie bookstore located in beautiful & complicated Bremerton, WA
📚 Shop indie bookstores and support local
📍 Corner of 4th street and Pacific Ave
www.ballastbookco.com
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based on real life events
A photo of an open book on a towel on a sandy beach. White serif text overlaid on top says 'the summer I didn't finish a single book on my TBR' (to be read)
September 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Happy Women in Translation Month! A perfect time to celebrate and uplift women who write in languages other than English.
Some of our favorite translated authors are: Agustina Bazterrica, Marlen Haushofer, Olga Ravn, Sayaka Murata, Mariana Enriquez, Han Kang, and Isabel Allende!
A cream background with blue cursive text in centre that says 'Woman in Translation Month'. 6 books circle the text in matching blue/cream: Tender is the Flesh, The Employees, My Name is Emilia Del Valle, A Sunny Place for Shady People, The Wall, and The Vegetarian
August 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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And, baby, that's bookselling business for you ❤️‍🔥

From being unable to reach books on the highest shelf to climbing over the mountains of boxes delivered everyday, The Life of a Bookseller is beautiful, rapturous, and frightening 😌
August 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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we had a proposal in our bookstore ahhh it's a love story baby just say yes !!
Woman in a white and green renaissance outfit holding a basket and also holding back tears as her boyfriend gets down on one knee A blonde woman in a white and green Renaissance outfit admiring the engagement ring on her finger as her boyfriend kneels down in front of her wearing a green bucket hat and white shirt
July 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Happy Paperback Book Day! Here's some of our bookseller favorites in paperback form 📕❤️
A stack of 5 books sitting on a stool with a blurred background. The books from top to bottom are All Fours by Miranda July, Service Model by Tchaikovsky, The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst, Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle, and Vicious by VE Schwab
July 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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yeah we really like books by the saint of writing @tkingfisher.com
Oil painting of The Dedication by Edmund Blair Leighton depicting a knight and lady kneeling before an altar, likely dedicating themselves to a noble (AKA me dedicating myself to author T. Kingfisher like the noble she is). White text in a medieval font overlaid on top says "me pledging loyalty to T. Kingfisher"
July 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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5 baby orange kittens all walking in the same direction with a white text overlaid on top that says 'gang on the way to support small businesses' because shopping small and supporting indie businesses is COOL and helping billionaires rent historical cities is NOT
July 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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it's a prime day to shop small and support local!
July 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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3 photos like a comic a trip. In the first, a young woman with brown hair asks "what was the date?". Second: a young blonde woman says "it was just like going to an indie bookstore and looking at all the cute stickers and getting book recommendations." In the third the brunette says "My dream date. Cute. And he knows that." Because going to an indie bookstore is a much cuter date than shopping on Amazon dot com !
July 8, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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lesbian cowgirl books 'cause baby I'm a giver 😌😘
Pink and orange gradient background with 'sapphic westerns' written in fun orange font up top. Two book covers are in the middle ("The Ride of Her Life" and "Upright Women Wanted"). Additional text says 'saddle up!' And 'save a horse ride a cowgirl!' Cut outs of Chappell Roan decorate the bottom
June 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁! 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝘁!
𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁-𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗻! 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗳𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘁.
𝗥𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱: 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄. 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗹𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁.
Photo of author Matt Dinniman smiling behind a microphone and sitting in a cushioned chair on stage. The table to his left has a stuffed car with sunglasses on who is supposed to look like Princess Donut from his Dungeon Crawler Carl book series Authors Matt Dinniman and Django Wexler sitting in cushioned chairs on stage while they laugh. A stuffed cat sits on a table between them. The lower half of the frame shows the audience in shadow that they are speaking to
June 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Princess Donut exactly where she belongs—in front of a live audience 👑💖
A photo of a fake stuffed cat from behind as she looks out over a large audience sitting in a theatre
June 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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spring has sprook time to buy a new book!
A hand holding a bouquet of red tulips with green stems, with a blue sky in the background. White text on top of the flower stems says 'indie bookstores' while each bulb has different white text like: a cute tote bag, a brand new book, bookseller recs, and iced coffee, and quirky stickers. All these things make up the bouquet that is an indie bookstore!
May 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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no thoughts just queer gnomes
Two cards held by a hand with a green sweater sleeve. The card on the left features too feminine gnomes kissing, with matching pink hats and cute clothes, surrounded by plants. Card on right is two masculine gnomes holding hands with matching blue hats, cute clothes, and surrounded by flowers!
May 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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What an amazing Indie Bookstore Day! Thank you to everyone who visited us, supported us online, and cleARED OUT ALL OUR BOOKS! Sorry not sorry if your TBR list has grown.
A photo of a colourful and crowded bookstore with text overlaid that said Independent Bookstore Day in black text outlined with yellow A colourful bookstore with empty spots on tables and shelves where books were previously but have since been bought (take that Jeff Bezos!) Overlaid text reads 'WHERE HAVE ALL THE BOOKS GONE'
April 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Some more images from the day
Two white women holding up a golden ticket and a silver ticket from Libro.FM smile in front of very full bookshelves. One is wearing a cap, glasses, red white and black jacket, and jeans and the other has purple hair and is wearing lavender overalls and holds three books. A very full bookstore with lots of patrons. There are books, posters, and things everywhere in the store. Paper cranes hang from the ceiling and the floor is a warm tan LVP. A white person with short brown hair, glasses, and a trimmed beard holds up a green shirt with a dragon on it that reads “Ballast Book Co.” in the background there are shelves full of books.
April 27, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Some images from the day
Eight people with fair skin are loosely gathered in a tan tiled space in front of a bookstore and coffee shop, smiling as they wait for the bookstore to open Many many individually wrapped sugar cookies shaped like books and iced with queer titles and authors sit in a bin A very full bookstore with patrons chatting, looking at things, and milling about. The bookstore has a lot of posters hung haphazardly on the walls above packed bookshelves. A smiling Salvadoran man wearing a tan cardigan, glasses, and gray brimmed cap holds up an orange book called A Little Luck by Claudia Pineiro
April 27, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Requesting doodles will bring you much joy
A wonky gray doodle of SpongeBob, named Doodlebob, raises its arms and yells in front of the classic SpongeBob background of illustrated sea floor, a purple rock, and deep blue water as sky with stylized flower outlines as clouds.
April 24, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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greetings I made this fantasy map of part of the puget sound with all the stores for the south sound book crawl which starts on indie bookstore day pls appreciate it
A cream coloured fantasy map of the Puget Sound from Bremerton to Olympia. The water is blue and there are trees and mountains dotted around. A compass is on the right side. At the bottom it says South Sound Book Quest in medieval font. 11 bookstores are listed where they are in real life. From North to South: Ballast Book Co, Salmonberry Books, Sinclair Inlet Books, Invitation Books, Kings Books, Grit City Books, Hi-Voltage Books, A Good Book, The Lakewood Bookstore, Browsers Bookshop, Orca Books Co-op
April 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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me telling everyone to support indie bookstores
A meme type photo of a smiling cat on one side, and then on the other the cat has its mouth open like it is screaming about how billionaires are bad
April 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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April 26th is Indie Bookstore Day, a national celebration of indie bookstores throughout the country! It's a great time to support your favorite bookstores, discover new ones, and to add to your TBR pile.
Blue construction paper background with scattered yellow stars made out of paper, and yellow and orange bunting at the top also made from paper. In the middle is a paper blue and white circular logo that says Independent Bookstore Day in black lettering. Underneath it says Saturday, April 26, 2025 in red lettering. Above the letters is red and orange bunting with more scattered tiny white stars.
April 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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if u don't like this vibe we can't be friends
Pink and blue gradient background with white text that reads 'pulpy sci-fi where if it was a movie then the entire soundtrack would be pop music'. 3 book covers from left to right: Beyond the Planet of the Vampires, Walking Practice, Key Lime Sky
April 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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haunted by more than ghosts in these book recs
Pink and blue gradient background with white text that reads 'ghosts except it's not really about ghosts except it is actually about ghosts'. Three books left to right: Model Home, Rules for Ghosting, and Cemetery Boys
April 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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haunted by more than ghosts in these book recs
Pink and blue gradient background with white text that reads 'ghosts except it's not really about ghosts except it is actually about ghosts'. Three books left to right: Model Home, Rules for Ghosting, and Cemetery Boys
April 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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💖🐇🎀✨
Pink and blue gradient background with white text that reads 'this is what the cool lit-fic girlies are reading after they've bought another sonny angel.' Three book covers left to right: Stag Dance, Wild Geese, and Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl. A Sonny Angel, which is a small baby figurine with pink bunny ears, peeks out coquettishly from behind Wild Geese.
March 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM