Join us for later hours this evening as Summerville hosts its monthly downtown Third Thursday. This month’s theme is Flower the Town – we have a few special treats and giveaways in store, so make sure to stop in and say HI!
Book Fair on the Square Lineup
We have the official lineup of amazing authors and their speaking times for Saturday, April 30th – just one week from this Saturday! Even better, we’ve put together a special cart HERE so if you like, you can pre-order the books you’ll want to be signed and have ’em waiting for you that day.
OR, if you can’t make it, you can instruct us how you’d like them inscribed with your order and we’ll get it done for you.
Here’s what else is coming up – see you on Main Street!
Pulpwood Queens Bookclub: The Cicada Tree by Robert Gwaltney
April 28 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
The wonderful book everyone’s talking about! Come join the discussion and enjoy free treats and a chance to ask the author your burning questions!…Find out more »
Independent Bookstore Day 2022:
Book Fair on the Square
April 30 @ 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
One day. Hundreds of bookstores. Fifty states. Join the celebration! Independent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April. Every store is unique and independent, and every party is different. But in addition to authors, contests, and other fun stuff, there are exclusive books and literary items that you can only get on that day. Not before. Not after. Find out more »
Meet Gregory Erich Phillips: A Season in Lights
May 1 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC Google Map
Join us Sunday for a special book signing with Seattle’s award-winning novelist, Gregory Erich Phillips, author of The Love of Unfinished Years, The Exile, and his newest hit, A Season in Lights. Passion, ambition and escape in the colorful artistic underworld off-Broadway. Cammie, a dancer in her 30s, has just landed her first part in a show since coming to New York City. Yet the tug of familial obligations and the guilt of what she sacrificed to be there weigh…Find out more »
Thriller Book Club in May
Featuring Greenwich Park by
May 10 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
Join our Thrill in the ‘Ville thriller book club at Main Street Reads the second Tuesday in May and enjoy a free book club journal, food, drink, and conversation about the fabulous debut thriller, Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner. “A twisty, fast-paced” (The Sunday Times, London) debut thriller, as electrifying as the #1 New York Times bestseller The Girl on the Train, about impending motherhood, unreliable friendship, and the high price of keeping secrets. In this “gloriously tangled game of…Find out more »
Book Signing and Talk with Stacy Willingham:
A Flicker in the Dark
May 14 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
We’re super excited to bring you a very special event with brilliant debut author Stacy Willingham, author of the new thriller, A Flicker in the Dark, already a New York Times bestselling book! We’ll begin with an “in conversation” with the author, followed by signing. Refreshments will be served! HINT: The book will ALSO be our June Thriller Book Club selection, so grab your copy now and be ready for a great talk about a compelling read! A New York…Find out more »
Bestseller Book Club in May Featuring
The Rice Birds by Lindy Carter
May 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
Join us for an exciting book club evening on the third Tuesday in May when we’ll be chatting about The Rice Birds by Lindy Carter and come back two days later to meet Lindy in person and get your book signed by the author! The club meets live and all are welcome – we’ll bring the treats, you bring yourselves! The book is available at the 10% off book club discount, too! Third Thursday will feature this very special book…Find out more »
Third Thursday Book Signing:
The Rice Birds by Lindy Carter!
May 19 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map
Join us for a very special book signing for The Rice Birds by Lindy Keane Carter, which NYT bestselling authors are already calling brilliant! “Like the hunted rice birds of South Carolina’s Lowcountry, two desperate women—an Irish indentured servant and an enslaved servant—flee antebellum Charleston in this meticulously researched and beautifully crafted odyssey to freedom. I loved it.” – Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of 27 books, including THE BEACH HOUSE series “In a poignant story of…Find out more »