Annie's Book Stop of Worcester

The little bookstore that's bigger on the inside

Happy New Year’s Eve, and an enormous THANK YOU to all of you, our customers, for making 2018 a wonderful year at ABSW. We are looking forward to an even better year in 2019. Our post-holiday sale starts NOW!  Come in to the store to see our markdowns on many new titles as we prepare …

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We hope everyone had a lovely Yule / Winter Solstice over this weekend, and we wish everyone who celebrates it a Happy Christmas today, this Christmas Eve. We will be closing at 5:00 PM, TODAY, on Christmas Eve, and will be CLOSED, TOMORROW, on Christmas. We have ONE MORE EVENT THIS YEAR! THIS FRIDAY, December …

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Happy Holiday Shopping Guide! Annie’s Book Stop of Worcester, the “bigger on the inside” bookstore at 65 James Street, is happy to present our 2018 recommendations of gifts for the winter holidays. Welcome to the world of boxed sets of books for adults! We have many great ones available, many of them in the Speculative …

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House of Assassins by Larry Correia ISBN-10: 1481483765 ISBN-13: 978-1481483766 Publisher: Baen (February 5, 2019) Reviewer: Scott A. Wooldridge “There’s always time for arson.” What is most intriguing about Larry Correia’s follow up to the Dragon Award-winning book Son of the Black Sword is how much worldbuilding is done only by dialog and action with …

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Annie’s Book Stop of Worcester is happy to support our local creative community, particularly our local authors. Many of our events and interviews highlight and spotlight our local creators, and we keep a display of local authors. This year, if you’re looking for a very special gift that gives back to your local creators, take …

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Have you finished your holiday shopping yet? We have plenty of great gifts just waiting to be under those trees or with the right people. TOMORROW, Tuesday, December 18th, is the last day if people want to do a mail order and get it shipped to their loved ones in time for Christmas. Wednesday is …

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Happy Holiday Shopping Guide! Annie’s Book Stop of Worcester, the “bigger on the inside” bookstore at 65 James Street, is happy to present our 2018 recommendations of gifts for the winter holidays. This year we have some very special boxed sets of books for middle readers and teens. For middle readers mystery sets seem to …

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With a growing reputation for acquiring collections of used books, we sometimes come across some unique finds. Recently, we acquired a collection of Soviet Era Russian literature, containing all the titles you might already know, but also a great many from lesser-known Russian authors. Much of this assortment was published in Moscow and imported at …

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Annie’s Book Stop of Worcester is happy to shine our Friday Spotlight on Cynthia Platt this week! Cynthia was at our 65 James Street store for Small Business Saturday, and we still have some of her books available for gifts. Thank you so much for joining us, Cynthia! Can you please tell us briefly a …

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Happy Holiday Shopping Guide! Annie’s Book Stop of Worcester, the “bigger on the inside” bookstore at 65 James Street, is happy to present our 2018 recommendations of gifts for the winter holidays. Something you might think about as a gift for someone are hand crocheted kitchen towels. We have a fantastic selection of them, practically …

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