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Bound To Be Read Books features good quality used and new books in a wide variety of categories. We also carry rare and collectible books, used audio books and new and used music CD’s – all at very affordable prices.

Whether you’re looking for best-selling popular fiction, science fiction, classic literature, romance, history, arts, gay & lesbian, gender studies, politics, pop culture, spirituality or children’s books, we have these and many, many other categories. Our on-line inventory will be available with a shopping cart on this website soon. In the meantime, you can shop Bound To Be Read Books online by clicking here.

We are currently building our database of books in inventory as we transition to our new computer system, so for now we’re offering just a sampling of current in-stock titles for purchase on-line. Please check back often as we’ll be adding new titles soon.

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Directions:
Located just 2 miles from downtown!
Take I-20 East from downtown.
Take Moreland Ave. (South),
Exit #60-A.
Turn left on McPherson (first light) and right on Flat Shoals;
OR left on Glenwood (2nd light) and left on Flat Shoals.

Easy Parking
Plenty of FREE street parking available,
as well as free lots behind the store
and across the street.

Store Hours:
Sunday - 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Monday - Closed
Tuesday - 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday - 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Thursday - 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday - 11:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Saturday - 11:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Meet Kona The Bookstore Cat
Meet our director of public relations, Kona the Cat. A rescue kitty, she lives at the bookstore and greets our customers – usually with a sleepy yawn!

UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday, January 6th
Writing Group
7:00 P.M.
Since the first Thursday of the month falls on New Year's Day, we're rescheduling our January meeting for the first Tuesday of the month. We'll return to the first Thursday of the month in February.

Our in-store writing group is open to writers of all types. We meet on the first Thursday of each month to read our work and to give and receive feedback.

It's easy to participate! Just bring five (5) copies of your poem, short story, essay, novel, screenplay, play, children's story, or other written work to share. We'll read and offer constructive comments on everyone's work.

For more information, contact us at (404) 522-0877 or jef@boundtobereadbooks.com.

Thursday, January 8th
Salon
7:00 P.M.
Join us for a free-wheeling discussion on a different topic every month. Topic TBA.

Sunday, January 11th
Twilight Talk: A Discussion of the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer
3:00 P.M.
You've read Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. You've seen Twilight, the movie. Now come talk about what you love and hate with others whom have fallen under the spell of Stephenie Meyer's vampire series. All vegetarians welcome!

Thursday, January 15th
Book Club
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
7:00 P.M.

The book club selection for January is An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England (Algonquin, 2008, 317 pp., pbk., reg. $13.95; sale $11.16) by Brock Clarke. Check out the website here.

As a teenager, it was never Sam Pulsifer's intention to torch an American landmark. He certainly never planned to kill two people in the blaze. To this day, he still wonders why that young couple was upstairs in bed in the Emily Dickinson house after hours.

After serving ten years in prison for his crime, Sam is determined to put the past behind him. He finishes college, begins a career, falls in love, gets married, has two adorable kids, and buys a nice home. His low-profile life is chugging along quite nicely until the past comes crashing through his front door.

As the homes of Robert Frost, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and even a replica of Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond go up in smoke, Sam becomes the number one suspect. Finding the real culprit is the only way to clear his name--but sometimes there's a terrible price to pay for the truth.

An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England is a literary tour de force--a brilliant skewering of every memoir ever written and a novel that will have readers underlining their favorite passages and reading them aloud.

The book club meets on the third Thursday of every month at 7:00 p.m. No membership is required. This is a free event open to all. Come join us! For more information, please call (404) 522-0877, or email info@boundtobereadbooks.com.

Thursday, January 22nd
Astrology: A New You in the New Year
Facilitated by Layli Phillips
7:00 P.M.
Layli Phillips explains how you can use astrology to change your life. Learn more about this ancient science, and how it can improve your life in 2009. Free discussion.

Tuesday, January 27th
How to Write a Novel: The Creation of Bear Me Safely Over and Stray
with author Sheri Joseph
7:30 P.M.

Award-winning author Sheri Joseph will discuss how she used her writing process to create her book Bear Me Safely Over (Grove Press, 2003, 272 pp., pbk., new $13.00). If you've been thinking about writing a novel, this is a great opportunity to meet a novelist and ask her questions. Although this seminar is free, it's strongly suggested that you read Bear Me Safely Over, so you'll better understand her references back to the story.

Joseph's second book, Stray (MacAdam Cage, 2008, 444 pp., new $14.00), which includes characters from Bear Me Safely Over, is also available.

Sheri Joseph teaches graduate and undergraduate fiction writing classes and serves as fiction editor of Five Points literary magazine. Her recently published novel, Stray, was awarded the Grub Street National Book Prize. Her cycle of stories, Bear Me Safely Over, was a Booksense 76 selection in both hardcover and paperback. “The Elixir,” a story included in Bear Me Safely Over, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals including The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Virginia Quarterly Review and Other Voices and in the anthologies Birds in the Hand (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux) and After O’Connor: Stories from Contemporary Georgia (University of Georgia Press). She has been awarded fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, The Kenyon Writers’ Workshop, the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers (in Scotland), the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. Check out Sheri out on MySpace.

Saturday, February 7th
Read-A-Thon
12:00 P.M.
Join us for our first read-a-thon, a continuous read of a book from beginning to end. As part of the Margaret Mitchell House's Atlanta Reads program, we'll read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald from start to finish. If you're interested in volunteering to read for a fifteen minute shift, email Jef Blocker at jef@boundtobereadbooks.com.

Sunday, February 15th
Scandalous Book Club
3:00 P.M.
Bound To Be Read Books continues its Scandalous Book Club with the classic anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (Dover, 2005, 384 pp., pbk, reg. $4.00; sale $3.20) by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book is said to have intensified the sectional conflict between the North and South, leading to the American Civil War.

The Scandalous Book Club meets quarterly to discuss the most controversial books in publishing history, contrasting their relevance at the time they were published to social values of today. We'll determine whether these books still still stand the test of time, or have become nothing more than campy trash from a bygone era.

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