Rec Room Books

Rec Room Books The only independent bookstore in downtown Athens, Georgia đź“š - Open daily 11am-6pm!

Loitering with a mischievous grin at the intersection of Blazing Saddles and anything Louis L’Amour, you’ll find God’s C...
05/26/2026

Loitering with a mischievous grin at the intersection of Blazing Saddles and anything Louis L’Amour, you’ll find God’s Country. Percival Everett’s 1994 wild Western is silly and razor sharp—one of our favorite novels from a living national treasure 📚

Join us—Thursday—7pm!
05/20/2026

Join us—Thursday—7pm!

Frieda Copperfield and Christina Goering are not concerned with the rules in your patriarchal playbook. Their epic journ...
05/17/2026

Frieda Copperfield and Christina Goering are not concerned with the rules in your patriarchal playbook. Their epic journeys of self-discovery, chronicled in Jane Bowles’s 1943 feminist literary masterpiece Two Serious Ladies, are positively liberating.

An animal rights activist, of sorts, makes life difficult, impossible even, for some hunters that aren’t dog lovers in O...
05/09/2026

An animal rights activist, of sorts, makes life difficult, impossible even, for some hunters that aren’t dog lovers in Olga Tokarczuk’s 2009 murder puzzle Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. Dark mystery, spirited vigilance, and an often unreliable narrator await you 🙂🖤📚🦴

magical 🪄
05/08/2026

magical 🪄

05/06/2026

❤️📚❤️

Florida, man. Colson Whitehead’s pulverizing 2020 exposé Nickel Boys is one more reason to hate the state, and specifica...
05/03/2026

Florida, man. Colson Whitehead’s pulverizing 2020 exposé Nickel Boys is one more reason to hate the state, and specifically the 111 years of corruption, abuse and juvenile injustice at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.

Join us this Sunday for a very special engagement. There will be snacks 🙂
04/29/2026

Join us this Sunday for a very special engagement. There will be snacks 🙂

Flannery O’Connor wrote grim Southern fiction her mother didn’t particularly enjoy reading. In 1952 she released the nov...
04/27/2026

Flannery O’Connor wrote grim Southern fiction her mother didn’t particularly enjoy reading. In 1952 she released the novel Wise Blood and introduced the world to Hazel Motes, one of literature’s better known nihilistic evangelicals 📚❤️⛪️

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297 1/2 E Broad Street
Athens, GA
30601

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Monday 11am - 6pm
Tuesday 11am - 6pm
Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 6pm
Sunday 11am - 6pm

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