Avid Reader Bookshop

Avid Reader Bookshop Brisbane's coolest indie bookshop! Brisbane's best independent bookshop and home to continual literary events!
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It's officially winter! Here's what we have in the pipeline for a very exciting month ahead 💌Kicking things off tonight,...
01/06/2026

It's officially winter! Here's what we have in the pipeline for a very exciting month ahead 💌

Kicking things off tonight, Samantha Parish and Will Cowper will be in conversation about the book Chefs Eat Brisbane, then we'll be hosting a midnight release party for Shadow Reaper by Lynette Noni (signed bookplates and limited edition metal bookmarks included).

We hope to see your faces soon! Head to our events page on the Avid Reader website to learn more about each of these wonderful events and workshops.

https://avidreader.com.au/pages/6744-EVENTS

Current reads by the Saturday booksellers Jess, Eleanor and Jaclyn! All standing strategically to show off our new scien...
30/05/2026

Current reads by the Saturday booksellers Jess, Eleanor and Jaclyn! All standing strategically to show off our new science fiction, fantasy and romance nook 🐉🐉

🍄A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman
🍄Lightfall: A Place Between by Tim Probert
🍄Servus by Emma Southon
🍄On Morrison by Namwali Serpell
🍄Frida Slattery as Herself by Ana Kinsella

Come visit us to see the shop’s fresh new look and check out our bookseller picks! 📚📚📚

29/05/2026

PEOPLE LIKE US is an important reminder of our shared humanity, regardless of socio-economics, gender or geography. Sally Piper has written a universal story of true friendship in the most unlikely circumstances and a sense of community that is often found when we need it most.

I cannot recommend this book to you more highly!

And I think you should come along to the launch at Avid Reader Bookshop on June 30!

https://avidreader.com.au/pages/14003-SallyPiper-PeopleLikeUs?mc_cid=894ff05eb9&mc_eid=4d13acf40f

29/05/2026

This week, Fiona is highly recommending ‘When the World Sleeps’ by Francesca Albanese: Stories, Words and Wounds of Palestine. 🇵🇸

This  profoundly moving book is a gallery of stories, characters, and places that allow us to understand what Palestine was like until recently, and what it has become today.

Francesca Albanese, the first woman to serve as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, conveys the soul of a people through ten unforgettable stories of resilience and humanity.

This is a really important book for those wishing to understand more about what’s going on in the world in an accessible manner! We’re here until 6pm and all weekend.
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We are all lucky to have poetry like this in the world! ✨Huge congratulations to Dženana Vucic for their beautiful poetr...
28/05/2026

We are all lucky to have poetry like this in the world! ✨

Huge congratulations to Dženana Vucic for their beautiful poetry book: after war

We celebrated tonight with readings by Dženana, alongside superlative poets Ellen van Neerven, Shastra Deo and Gavin Yuan Gao ✨

Been on the hunt for a copy of Famesick by ? 👀 we have copies back in stock! This is a rowdy, frank, deeply personal ref...
28/05/2026

Been on the hunt for a copy of Famesick by ? 👀 we have copies back in stock!

This is a rowdy, frank, deeply personal reflection on illness, fame, s*x, and everything in between, from the mind behind the hit series Girls and Too Much, and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl.

Here until 6pm!

Join us for an evening of poetry and conversation as we welcome Dženana Vucic, author of after war. 🧡 Thursday night’s P...
25/05/2026

Join us for an evening of poetry and conversation as we welcome Dženana Vucic, author of after war. 🧡 Thursday night’s Poetry Salon will feature readings from the inimitable Shastra Deo, Ellen van Neerven, and Gavin Yuan Gao.

after war is an unwavering exploration of brutality and its consequences, moving adroitly between personal experience and the written record to plumb the ‘after’ and ongoingness of war, genocide and displacement.

Through experiments in form and voice, Dženana Vucic’s deeply humane poetry bears witness not only to suffering, but to courage and strength. Generous and incisive, this extraordinary collection refuses to look away or submit to despair; it compels readers not to either.

Join us from 6pm on Thursday night! RSVP via the Avid Reader events page: https://avidreader.com.au/pages/14193-D%C5%BEenanaVucic-afterwar

You’ve got incredible taste! ✨✨Here’s some future reading inspiration brought to you by a few of our Sunday customers! 📚...
24/05/2026

You’ve got incredible taste! ✨✨

Here’s some future reading inspiration brought to you by a few of our Sunday customers! 📚

Here until 5 for book recommendations and merriment! 🙋‍♀️

MOST REQUESTED! 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️The books you’ve been asking for, in stock now for your weekend reading! 🌷Transcription by B...
23/05/2026

MOST REQUESTED! 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️

The books you’ve been asking for, in stock now for your weekend reading!

🌷Transcription by Ben Lerner
🌷The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
🌷Famesick by Lena Dunham
🌷Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
🌷Cannon by Lee Lai
🌷A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman

The booksellers are here for recommendations until 6pm…

22/05/2026

Fiona simply adored Ann Patchett’s () latest book ‘Whistler’ (coming June 2). 🐴

To celebrate, we’re offering a discount for those who pre-order the book with Avid and also have some extra special annotated copies of Bel Canto, which you will go in the draw to win!

Whistler is a story about two adults looking back over the choices they made, and the choices that were made for them. It’s a story about bravery, memory, the often small yet consequential moments that define our lives, and the endless stream of loss that in time comes for us all.

Head to the link in our bio to Pre-Order your copy! 🐎

Address

193 Boundary Street
West End, QLD
4101

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 6pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 6pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 6pm
Thursday 8:30am - 6pm
Friday 8:30am - 6pm
Saturday 8:30am - 6pm
Sunday 8:30am - 5pm

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+61738463422

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