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BookBar brings people together through books. We are a bookshop, events and social space, serving wine, coffee and the best book recommendations. Our Shelf Medicate Prescription and Consultation Service prescibes bespoke book recommendations for aspiring and avid readers. Welcome to BookBar an independent bookshop and social space in London BookBar brings people together through books. Come and visit our bookshop, wine bar and events space in Islington or Chelsea, join us for one of our in person events, browse and order books online or join our BookClub. Upcoming Events BookBar Presents... An Evening with Maria Semple and Nina Stibbe Mon 25 May BookBar Chelsea More info Buy Tickets Sufiyaan Salam in conversation with Gurnaik Johal | BookBar is Five Festival Wed 03 Jun BookBar Islington More info Buy Tickets Claire Daverley in conversation | BookBar is Five Festival Thu 04 Jun BookBar Chelsea More info Details Buy our Book of the Month* and get a paired glass of Invader Orange for £5 *for collection only Order your copy of Transcription Order your copy of Frida Slattery What's New? Cathedrals by Claudia Pineiro Price £11.99 Bimbo by Ashley James Price £22.00 The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout Price £18.99 American Fantasy by Emma Straub Price £18.99 Smallie by Eden McKenzie-Goddard Price £16.99 Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller Price £18.99 Amy's Pick Solace House by Will Maclean Price £20.00 Fruit Fly by Josh Silver Price £16.99 A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz Price £22.00 Porcupines by Fran Fabriczki Price £16.99 Signed MEDesque : Everyday Recipes with Mediterranean Roots by Georgina Hayden Price £26.00 BookBar BookClub: The Correspondent with Virginia Evans Price £18.00 BookBar BookClub: Dusk with Robbie Arnott Price £18.00 Strangers : A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden Price £18.99 Famesick by Lena Dunham Price £18.99 Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu Price £9.99 The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley Price £16.99 Storm Pegs : A Life Made in Shetland by Jen Hadfield Price £10.99 Eat Bitter by Lydia Pang Price £18.99 BookBar BookClub: The Mercy Step with Marcia Hutchinson Price £18.00 Lazar by Nelio Biedermann Price £16.99 Jess's Pick Helen Of Nowhere Price £12.99 The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell Price £10.99 Strange Girls by Sarvat Hasi Price £20.00 Browse our full list of recommendations Books we can't wait to recommend in 2026 Chandler's Pick Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel Price £18.99 Partita by Barbara Kingsolver Price £20.00 Polly's Pick Wimmy Road Boyz by Sufiyaan Salam Price £16.99 Land by Maggie O'Farrell Price £25.00 Chrissy's Pick Stations by Louise Kennedy Price £20.00 Chrissy's Pick John of John by Douglas Stuart Price £20.00 Chrissy's Pick I Want You To Be Happy by Jem Calder Price £14.99 Chrissy's Pick Frida Slattery as Herself by Ana Kinsella Price £16.99 Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead Price £22.00 Chrissy's Pick American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee Price £22.00 The Traveller's Library by Chandler Bray Price £16.99 Browse our full list of recommendations Signed Copies Signed MEDesque : Everyday Recipes with Mediterranean Roots by Georgina Hayden Price £26.00 Signed Go Gentle by Maria Semple Price £20.00 Chandler's Pick My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy Price £18.99 We all love! Transcription by Ben Lerner Price £14.99 Signed London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe Price £22.00 Signed What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton (Author Edition) Price £16.99 Signed Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy Price £16.99 Signed Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers Price £18.99 Signed Night People : How to Be a DJ in ‘90s New York City by Mark Ronson Price £25.00 Signed Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors Price £9.99 You Are Here by David Nicholls Out of stock Amy's Pick A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle Price £10.99 Signed A Long Winter by Colm Toibin Price £12.99 Signed New Cemetery Price £14.99 Signed No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes Price £20.00 Signed Ferment : The Life-Changing Power of Microbes by Tim Spector Price £25.00 Signed We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad Price £16.99 Signed Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood Price £16.99 BookBar Favourite! Ungone by Hannah Patterson Price £10.99 Signed Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi Price £22.00 Amy's Pick Dusk by Robbie Arnott Price £16.99 Signed Tart by Slutty Cheff Price £16.99 Signed Picture Imperfect by Jacqueline Wilson Price £22.00 Browse our full list of recommendations bookbar bookbags Our iconic canvas BookBags are the perfect size for your daily essentials. Buy my BookBar BookBag now The BookBar loyalty card In partnership with Ambler Primary School. Buy a book and get a stamp. When you get ten stamps we'll donate a book to a child from Ambler. Visit our bookshop, wine bar, events and social space at 166 Blackstock Road to get started. Follow us on Instagram for our latest recommendations and news @bookbaruk Load More Check out our famous BookBar playlists, courtesy of BookBar's resident DJ

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BOOKBAR BOOKCLUB Past Book Selections Over the past five years, we've discussed more than fifty books, ranging from memoir to novels to short stories. We've read everything from contemporary fiction, historical fiction to thrillers, and speculative fiction. Our members have heard from the biggest names in literature, like Ann Patchett and Maggie O'Farrell, as well as discovering the most exciting new voices. The main criteria for our selection? Is this a book we recommend and think will generate a good discussion? Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam Price £9.99 Big Swiss by Jen Beagin Price £9.99 Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin Price £9.99 Chrysalis by Anna Metcalfe Price £9.99 Arrangements in Blue by Amy Key Price £10.99 Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri Price £9.99 The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi Price £9.99 I Will Greet The Sun Again by Khashayar J. Khabushani Price £9.99 North Woods by Daniel Mason Price £9.99 The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff Price £9.99 She's Always Hungry by Eliza Clark Price £9.99 Booker Longlist My Friends by Hisham Matar Price £9.99 Chandler's Pick Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Price £9.99 Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly Price £9.99 All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield Price £10.99 Amy's Pick A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle Price £10.99 want to join us? Join the BookBar BookClub