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Caversham Booksellers
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Toronto-based bookstore with a focus on mental health, psychology, education, and related subjects. Visit us at our storefront at 262B Geary Ave. (opening in October), or online at https://www.cavershambooksellers.com/
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If you've been looking for a sign, here it is! Our Geary location just got easier to find. And have we mentioned we're right next door to a vintage store? Books AND clothes - one-stop shopping! 🛍️
Workers with a crane installing a sign reading Caversham Booksellers A sign reading Caversham Booksellers hanging on an exterior wall, next to a sign reading VINTAGE. A rack of clothing is visible nearby.
October 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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British anthropologist and playwright Naomi Westerman will be at Caversham this Sunday, October 26 to talk about her new book of essays, Happy Death Club.

Join us at 3 pm in our new space at 262b Geary Ave. for an open discussion with Naomi about death and grief.
Event flyer: Anthropologist Naomi Westerman was studying death rituals around the world -- when her whole family died. Please join us Sunday, Oct 26 at 3 pm for the launch of her new book. 262b Geary Ave., Toronto. Naomi will be facilitating an open discussion space to talk about death and grief. Image: Cover of the book Happy Death Club: essays on death, grief and bereavement across cultures, with an illustration of a skull in a party hat. Image: Black and white headshot of Naomi Westerman
October 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Announcing the grand opening weekend of our new space at 263b Geary Avenue! November 1 and 2. Featuring author events on both days!
#walking #dreaming #bookstore #toronto
Caversham Booksellers invites you to come help us celebrate our new location! Opening Weekend Saturday and Sunday, November 1 and 2 Author Events, refreshments, sales, 262b Geary Ave West of Dufferin Images of both authors and their book covers. Lee Scott - Step Outside - Nov 1, 2 to 4 pm Sharon Sliwinski - An Alphabet for Dreamers - Nov 2, 5 to 6:30 pm
October 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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We're at 262b Geary Ave, just west of Dufferin, just north of Dupont.
Map showing Caversham Booksellers location
October 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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We have moved! Pardon the mess -- we still have boxes to unpack, and workers are putting the finishing touches on our accessible bathroom. But you can come in and browse! We'd love to see you!
The front door of Caversham Booksellers from the outside. A large, weathered sign reading BEDROOMS DININGROOMS is still visible above our door. A temporary white banner above the door, and a red one to the side, have our name. The interior of the new bookstore, showing a red-painted ceiling, polished concrete floor, and several tall woodgrain bookcases. Many cardboard boxes of still-packed books are visible. Sunlight comes in through the glass front door
October 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Our new location at 262b Geary Ave won't be open yet for the Block Party on Saturday, Sep 20, but we'll be there, with a table and a selection of books. Swing by, say hello, and get a peek at the new space!
#gearyblockparty
Geart Ave Block Party - Sep 20 - graphic
September 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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It's official: our Harbord Street location is now CLOSED permanently. But don't be too sad: we will reopen soon at 262B Geary Ave! And web orders will continue as normal while our storefront is closed.
Caversham Booksellers' 98 Harbord Street location: a glass bookstore window with a few bicycles locked to posts out front, and a red wooden bench. A sign in the window reads WE ARE MOVING.
September 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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We're moving in September, and you know what that means: Sales! Our Rummage Sale, clearing out the books that have piled up in our basement over 36 years, is on now! Drop by and check it out!
August 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Hey, have you heard our big news? After 36 years at our Harbord Street location, we'll be moving over the summer to a bright new space on up-and-coming Geary Avenue! We'll see you there in September!
Photo of Caversham Bookseller's shop window, with a sign saying "We are moving!", a map showing our new location at 262 Geary Avenue, and a bunch of books about moving, change, and transformation
July 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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• Buy any book at our neighbours, @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social, then come over to Caversham and show us your receipt for a 10% discount off any regularly priced trade book. Or start here, and bring your Caversham receipt over there! (Some restrictions apply)
#cibd2025
#canadianindiebookstoresday
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Canadian Independent Bookstore Day, April 26, 2025. Illustration of a woman riding a bike with a cat perched on the handlebars, flowers and books in the basket. Promo image provided by Canadian Independent Bookstore Association, drawn by artist and illustrator Josée Bisaillon
April 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Canadian Independent Bookstore Day is coming up, and we're planning a couple of in-store special promotions to celebrate!
For one day only, on April 26:
• Buy any new book, and choose a second-hand/clearance book from our famous Super Sale Cart for free!
#cibd2025
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Canadian Independent Bookstore Day, April 26, 2025. Illustration of a girl walking a dachshund and pulling a wagon full of books. Promo image provided by Canadian Independent Bookstore Association, drawn by artist and illustrator Josée Bisaillon
April 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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We're at Reading for the Love of It! Drop by, say hi, browse our curated selection. #rftloi
February 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Magnificent #bookstack assembled today by a customer visiting from Calgary. "Came for Taylor Swift, spent more on books!" 😁

Pro-tip for out-of-town visitors: our offer of free shipping on purchases over $150 applies in-store as well as online. So no worries about luggage limits!
A stack of 16 books on a wide range of topics: attachment theory, philosophy of psychiatry, psychoanalysis, BPD, CBT, violence risk assessment. There's also On Women by Susan Sontag, A History of the Wife by Marilyn Yalom, and the School of Life book on Self-Hatred
November 22, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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Today we have brought books to the TICP registrants at UofT Innis Town Hall for a Day with Anthony Bass, Ph.D. (62 here and 56 online)
A photo Joe took of his Caversham book display outside Innis Town Hall.
November 16, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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Gift shopping season is here, and we just received a shipment of delightfully ridiculous stocking stuffers for the analysts, analysands, and/or therapists on your list! The Pink Freud t-shirt is back in stock, as are the Freudian Slippers, both in a range of sizes!
A pair of Freudian Slippers, which are just what they sound like: slippers that look like Sigmund Freud A small white planter pot shaped like Sigmund Freud's head A t-shirt riffing on the famous Pink Floyd prism/rainbow album cover design: the prism has a pink Sigmund Freud in it and the text reads Pink Freud
November 15, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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We love dogs around here! We even keep liver treats behind the counter, as this regular visitor knows
#dogsky
A cute wolfhound-type dog with her front paws up on the sales counter. Her owner is wagging a finger at her, warning her not to get TOO excited A cute wolfhound-type dog accepts a handful of liver treats from Neil at the Caversham bookstore sales counter
November 13, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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Our next two book club picks:

Tuesday, November 12 -- The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz

Tuesday, December 3 -- Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up by James Hollis
Photos of the 2 books mentioned in the post, in a bookstore with 3 miscellaneous glass and ceramic heads behind them
October 23, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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Caversham has a book club! Here are our next 2 picks:
Tuesday, Nov. 12: The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz Tuesday, Dec 3: Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow up by James Hollis
If you're not in Toronto, you can join us via Zoom!
Photo of the book club picks in the store
October 16, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Join us at the store on Sunday, October 20 at 7 pm, for an intimate chat between authors Susan Raphael and Ann Dowsett Johnston. For more info and to register: www.eventbrite.ca/e/parenting-...
Event: Parenting Under Pressure: Navigating Addiction, Mental Health, and Family Crisis An intimate talk between leading experts Ann Dowsett Johnston and Susan Raphael Sunday, October 20 at 7 pm, at Caversham Booksellers, 98 Harbord St
October 11, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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Our "spooky season" window display is all about things that are ACTUALLY scary. Forget demons and zombies, what about: climate change? Messy divorces? The dark side of your own psyche? ::shudder::
A bookstore window display of books about truly scary things, including the news, toxic exes, climate change, war and terrorism, social interaction, pandemics, etc.
October 3, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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Funny you should ask! This just came out in soft-shell and it looks really good
Sy Montgomery's book Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell, new out in paperback
September 30, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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New in the store: Relatable content from @debbieohi.com !
Hand holding up a copy of I Want to Read All the Books, a children's book by Debbie Ridpath Ohi, with a bookstore in the background
September 25, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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An interesting and varied #bookstack purchased by a couple visiting Toronto this morning. Some work-related, some personal, some that they just thought looked interesting! #psychologybooks
A stack of 7 books on a bookstore checkout counter: How to Have a Mindful Pregnancy and Birth by Sian Warriner, The Biology of Desire by Marc Lewis. Mindfulness for Two by Kelly G. Wilson, Psychosis Risk and Experience of the Self by Paul Moller, Raising Resilience and Growing Up Mindful both by Christopher Willard, and The Science of Weird Shit by Chris French
August 26, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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Caversham Booksellers is proudly owned and operated by childless cat people! Here are a couple members of our extended family
Xena, a tabby cat sitting under a wooden chair Ponyo, a grey and white cat sitting on a computer keyboard, looking for attention
August 2, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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New in our Psychoanalysis section: a used books shelf! A curated selection drawn from collections donated over the years by psychoanalysts retiring from practice. #psychoanalysis #bookstore
Two shelves in a bookstore stocked with used books on psychoanalytic topics. Two paperbacks with 70s-era cover designs are facing the viewer.
July 26, 2024 at 3:14 PM