Railway Avenue Bookstore

03/21/2026

We loaded up on mostly horror titles at an auction this week. King, Koontz and more. Also some SF and fantasy. Close to 150 books that we'll be easing onto the shelves over the next few weeks. The King titles are up now. The rest to follow.

01/24/2026

The bookstore opens in a new space this weekend. Still in Queen Mary's Market, but two rows back, very close to Entrance 4 in the southwest corner of the building. It's a smaller space but there's the same range and variety of books as we've always had. We've dropped a couple of things from our stock, including auto repair manuals and vintage and arts items. As always, there will be an infusion of new stock every week. Check it out.

12/06/2025

Read these yet? My teenage granddaughter highly recommends trying these out.

09/19/2025

When governments do good ... and not so good. A report on a shopping trip around Edmonton's used book stores. A look at one of the books I found. And, of course, getting a bit of intel on others in the biz. My first Substack.

When governments do good ... and not so good

09/13/2025

Loyalty rewards program! Save on books.

08/19/2025

I'm just getting my inventory and accounts up to date after our weekend's business, and I'm struck by the range of interests our customers have shown in their purchases. So I thought I'd share the list of books sold last weekend so you can see what I mean.
https://www.libib.com/u/railwayave/l/2323681

As happens most weekends, the biggest chunk of our business is in what I call the "hard" genres -- the Cobens and Cusslers, the Pattersons, Koontzes, Sandfords, and Smiths. But there's also a lot of action in the non-fiction areas, notably self-help and hockey. There's action in the vampyres section. And speculative fiction and fantasy, as alway, is pretty strong.

We do our best to cater to a variety of interests and taste in books.

07/03/2025

You'll find almost all of the Giller Prize-winning Canadian books pictured in this post at Railway Avenue Bookstore. If you're interested, come by any weekend and have a look in our General Fiction shelves. You'll find:

A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
Barney's Version, Mordecai Richler
Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
Mercy Among the Children, David Adams Richards
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, M.G. Vassanji
The Time In Between, David Bergen
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures: Stories, Vincent Lam
Late Nights on Air, Elizabeth Hay
Through Black Spruce, Joseph Boyden
The Sentimentalists, Johanna Skibsrud
Half-Blood Blues: A Novel, Esi Edugyan
419: A Novel, Will Ferguson
Hellgoing, Lynn Coady
Fifteen Dogs, André Alexis
Bellevue Square, Michael Redhill
Washington Black, Esi Edugyan

Wikipedia has a complete listing of all Giller Prize nominees and winners with links to more information about all of the books
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giller_Prize
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16b4d3JBRM/

Today, we want to recognize the 29 talented authors who have won the since 1994.

04/10/2025

Found this old bill taped to the inside front cover of a book today. Who says you can't make money in the book biz?

03/31/2025

We're slowly developing an online store inventory. So far we've scanned in and listed all the books in General Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography/Memoir, and Speculative Fiction & Fantasy. Now you can search our shelves from home or on your phone. Check it out here:https://www.libib.com/u/railwayave

03/31/2025

Is that Donald? I have these Hitchcock magazines from the '60s displayed at the entrance to the store. Two people commented today how much Hitch looked like Trump. Well, I guess they both would like to scare you. Or haunt you. They do share a certain skin tone.

03/31/2025