Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day at the Midtown Scholar! As a proud participant with over 500 independent bookstores across the country in this one-day national event, we’ll have an outdoor tent sale, blind-date-with-a-book, exclusive sales and merchandise, and more, including an appearance from #1 New York Times bestselling children’s author and illustrator, Vashti Harrison.

Events & Programs:

9am-7pm: Spring Tent Sale

10am-12pm: Book Signing and Meet & Greet with Vashti Harrison

12pm-2pm: Book Signing with Michael Garrigan

Why Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day at the Scholar?

Independent bookstores are not just stores, they’re community centers and local anchors run by passionate readers.
They are entire universes of ideas that contain the possibility of real serendipity. They are lively performance spaces and quiet places where aimless perusal is a day well spent.

In a world of tweets and algorithms and pageless digital downloads, bookstores are not a dying anachronism. They are living, breathing organisms that continue to grow and expand. In fact, there are more of them this year than there were last year. And they are at your service.