Bluebird Books Edmond

05/06/2026

We’re proud to partner through our family of businesses with Edmond Mobile Meals in May to support homebound seniors and disabled neighbors in our community.

In 2025 alone, Edmond Mobile Meals served 94,370 meals through home deliveries and at the Edmond Senior Center, providing not just food, but care, connection, and dignity.

With ongoing challenges like government shutdowns and reductions in food benefits, the need is real and growing.

Food is our love language, and giving back is at the heart of what we do.

Here’s how you can join us:

⭐️Visit Bluebird Books, Evoke, Twisted Tree Baking Company, and La Loba Cantina + Grill on Tuesdays in May and we’ll donate 10% of sales.

⭐️ Donate directly online (link in comments)

⭐ Scan the QR codes in-store to give instantly.

⭐ Consider volunteering your time!

We’re excited to share the impact and celebrate together at the end of the month —but we hope you’ll consider supporting this mission year-round.

Let’s make sure no one in Edmond goes hungry!

04/28/2026

This SATURDAY, MAY 2 at 11 AM Bluebird Books will be hosting for Storytime Penguin Random House children’s author Joslin Brorsen to celebrate the release of WILDERNESS HACKS!

Hatchet meets Survivor in this high-action, humor-filled middle grade adventure about two kids stranded in the wilderness, whose annoyance with each other rivals the roaring rapids and ferocious predators they must face.

12-year-old Sadie Hahn didn’t plan to eat grubs on camera to win a contest. And she definitely didn’t plan to win first prize—a guest appearance on a Youtube show hosted by America’s favorite 13-year-old survivalist Radley Shaw. But she’ll do anything to cheer up her little brother Silas, who’s too young to qualify.

Rad has millions of followers and exactly zero real-life friends, so the contest is a great chance for him to hang out with kids his own age. But it’s hate-at-first-sight when Silas throws a wrench in his plan and Sadie decides Rad is just a clueless poser who doesn’t know the first thing about survival.

Disaster strikes when their scripted rafting trip turns into a real fight for survival. Lost in the mountains, Rad and Sadie must find shelter, build a fire, forage for food and try not to become food for a hungry predator. But can they stop bickering long enough to hack it in the wilderness? And will that be enough to keep them alive?

It will be a fun time for all and you can pick up a copy and get it signed by Joslin! We’ll have a fun reading and maybe pick up a wilderness survival hack or two!

04/24/2026

Oh cool, nothing says “support local bookstores” like a giant chain backed by billionaires dropping double points the exact same weekend indie bookstores are celebrating Independent Bookstore Day, April 24-26.

Anyway!! We’ll be over here celebrating with books picked by local owners, staff picks we’ve read (and argued about), and books we’ll enthusiastically hand-sell to you instead of…points.

The Central Oklahoma Independent Bookstore Crawl has a list of 20 stores and mobile stores to visit over the weekend. Come for the vibes, stay for the books, leave with at least one title we insisted you’d love and were absolutely right about!

04/20/2026

We’re celebrating Indie Bookstore Day on Saturday (April 26h) and all this next weekend (Friday-Sunday) with a lot of fun on the - 50% and 30% off book sections, free tote with $100< purchases - AND hiding the GOLDEN TICKET to win 12 free audiobooks over the next year! Get your friends and family and help us celebrate!

04/17/2026

ANNIE HARTNETT IS COMING TO BLUEBIRD BOOKS! “The Road to Tender Hearts is absurdly over-the-top in plot, yet warms like a heated seat.”—The New York Times

This will be Annie’s first visit to Oklahoma, and we’re thrilled to welcome her to our May 19 Book Circle from 6 to 8 p.m. She’ll talk about her book, which is also our top seller for 2025. Tickets are limited, so head to the comments to get your link to buy yours. Each $35 ticket includes a signed paperback (a $20 value) and a light snack. Feel free to bring your own beverage in a spill-proof container. If you want to come, but the price feels limiting - DM us and we will make sure you don’t miss this opportunity.

If you’ve already read The Road to Tender Hearts, we invite you to revisit it and join us! If you haven’t, now is the perfect time to start. This book is a great companion for the season, and we hope you’ll join us for an uplifting and therapeutic evening.

“A beautiful reminder that the world is full of tragedy, but life-changing joy and connection might be just around the corner.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“Annie Hartnett writes like no one else. Her knack for spinning a tale both hilarious and gritty, fantastical yet incisive, is on full display in The Road to Tender Hearts. I loved every page of this wild, weird, bighearted book.” — Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright Creatures

“The Road to Tender Hearts is the ultimate road trip novel: a zany, heartfelt blend of dysfunction, humor, healing, and Annie Hartnett’s signature poignancy and wit. This story of family, forgiveness, and moving forward is a balm for anyone who’s ever been too hard on themselves, offering a compassionate reminder that we’re all just figuring it out as we go. I was moved, delighted, and captivated from start to finish.”—Emily Habeck, author of Shark Heart

04/09/2026

We’re adding more to our TBR list in nonfiction and you should too:

THE GREATEST SENTENCE EVER WRITTEN reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans—and explains how it should shape our politics today.

THE BOOK OF HOPE is a rare and intimate look not only at the nature of hope but also into the heart and mind of a woman who revolutionized how we view the world around us and has spent a lifetime fighting for our future.

LOST reveals not just why we remember Amelia Earhart as a trailblazer and adventurer, but why unsolved mysteries keep us forever searching for answers.

THE DESERVING weaves powerful, gripping stories from an extraordinary career into an inspiring argument for dignity in American justice.

RED SCARE reveals an all-too-familiar pattern of conspiracy-mongering and political and cultural backlash that speaks directly to the antagonism and divisiveness of our contemporary moment.

AMERICAN STRUGGLE teaches us anew that to know what has come before, to watch as long-running disputes rise and fall, is to be armed against despair.

NEPTUNE’S FORTUNE is a thrilling adventure, taking readers from great naval battles on the high seas to the sun-soaked shores that nurtured history’s most notorious treasure hunters, to the archives that held the secret keys to lost fortune on the ocean floor.

SUPER NINTENDO whisks you back to the couch in the den, a controller in your hands for the very first time, staring up at a screen of infinite possibilities.

BEING THOMAS JEFFERSON is the deepest dive yet into the heart and soul, secret affairs, unexplored alliances, and bitter feuds of a generally worshipped, intermittently reviled American icon.

04/06/2026

The Oklahoman reported today that the Edmond City Council approved $17 million in city funds on March 23 for developers of The Legacy at Covell, located at I-35 and Covell Road. These funds will be used as incentives to attract businesses to the development. We generally support development that enhances our community by increasing sales tax revenue without negatively affecting local business owners. In fact, we’re excited to see this area and what it could mean for our community in terms of new sales-tax revenue.

However, we were surprised to learn Barnes & Noble is being promoted as a business to be recruited with these approved funds. We appreciate Richard Mize and The Oklahoman for raising awareness about the impact on local business owners, especially our independent bookstores, including Bluebird Books, Best of Books, Archives Books, and A Novel Idea Bookshop in Guthrie. We will post the link to the news article in the comments, as well as a link to the video of the City Council meeting, where you can watch. Below is the message our owner, Lori Dickinson Black, shared with the mayor and councilmembers:

I want to begin by saying I support economic development and understand the importance of continuing to grow our tax base.

However, I’ll be honest, when I heard we were incentivizing Barnes & Noble as a tenant being actively recruited to Edmond, I was like “What the heck!” to put it very nicely.

It isn’t that Barnes & Noble shouldn’t have a place here (Edmond). It’s what its arrival represents in this moment, and what it signals about the direction we are choosing as a community.

Edmond already has three independent bookstores - Bluebird Books, Best of Books, and Archives Books. These stores didn’t arrive because of incentives or recruitment efforts. They exist because local entrepreneurs took risks, signed leases, invested their own capital, brought in private investment, and showed up every day to build something meaningful for our community.

We’ve created spaces where people gather, children discover reading, events are held, and relationships are built over time. We collaborate with one another - calling to help locate books, working together as Central Oklahoma booksellers, and even organizing “book crawls” to support not just our own stores, but each other.

Independent bookstores and small retailers are already operating in a very challenging environment, especially with the rise of companies like Amazon, which has fundamentally changed how people buy books.

Recognizing this shift and after years of decline and the closing of many of its large-format stores, Barnes & Noble has re-concepted its model to compete more directly with independent bookstores.

That approach has been successful.

They opened 57 new stores in 2024, more than they opened in the entire previous decade from 2009 to 2019. In 2025, they opened more than 60 stores, and in 2026, they have plans to continue at that pace.

That’s not just growth, that’s a full reversal from decline to aggressive expansion.

But that success has come from adopting many of the strengths of independent bookstores and competing more directly for the same customers, not from creating an entirely new demand for books.

So, this isn’t just adding another bookstore. It’s introducing a well-capitalized, internationally backed competitor into the Edmond market that is intentionally targeting the same space independent bookstores have worked hard to build.

And I think it’s important to recognize that not all sales and new business are created equal. The adage in the restaurant world is, “a rising tide lifts all boats,” because we recognize that more options don’t necessarily mean we’re diluting market share, because we’re drawing more people to a business center.

But statistics show that more bookstores don’t create more business. More bookstores in Edmond at this point means someone is going out of business. There isn’t unlimited growth in book sales. When a new bookstore enters a market, it typically shifts where people buy books rather than dramatically increasing the number of books purchased or increasing sales tax revenue.

When we’re making this choice to give public dollars for incentives to Barnes & Noble, we’re also making the choice to lose some, if not all, of our independent bookstores in Edmond. So, keep that in mind when you’re talking about creating a new tax revenue stream – it’s not new, it’s just coming from a different place.

The question is not just what we are adding, but what we may be affecting by bringing Barnes & Noble into our market.

And I think that’s a reasonable question to ask when public incentives are involved.

I also hope we can pause to recognize and value the entrepreneurs and small business owners who are already here, those who have taken the risk to build something meaningful from the ground up in Edmond.

We sign the leases. We invest our own capital. We show up every day to pay the bills, generate sales, employ residents, collect sales tax, support local nonprofits, and build community, because we are fully invested in Edmond.

I understand there is real risk in development as well. But there is just as much, if not more, risk carried by small business owners who do all of this without the support of millions of dollars in public incentives.

So again, I want to be clear, this is not about opposing growth, and it’s not about opposing this development. It is about asking whether our approach to economic development truly reflects the values we want to carry forward for Edmond, not just today, but for the years ahead.

Because the decisions made here tonight will shape more than our tax base, they will help define Edmond’s identity and the kind of community we offer to future generations.

The Edmond I want to be a part of is one that focuses on building and growing our small businesses and strengthening the business centers that already exist.

As we pause to consider developments like this, I would ask: are we following the roadmap for what we want Edmond to become? Are we shaping the city we want to be known for? And are we continuing to craft the kind of community Edmond was founded to be?

02/25/2026

02/25/2026

NEW RELEASES on the shelves at Bluebird Books! Lauren Groff’s BRAWLER STORIES is a stunning, fierce collection from a master of the short story and one of the most important writers of our time. Read alone, each story is an individual triumph, bold, agile, and powerful. Read together, they hum in exhilarating resonance. Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and spanning age, class, and region—from New England to Florida to California—these nine stories reflect and expand upon a shared theme: the ceaseless battle between humans’ dark and light angels.

CLEOPATRA tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author Saara El-Arifi. This stunning edition includes designed endpapers and a custom case stamp. “Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love’s thrall. Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods themselves. Your poets sing of my bloodlust, but I was always protecting my children… This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived.”

Tayari Jones’ KIN is a novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, Kin is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction.

THE SEVEN DAUGHTERS OF DUPREEE masterfully weaves together themes of generational trauma, Black women’s resilience, and unbreakable familial bonds. Echoing the literary power of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis, Nikesha Elise Williams delivers a feminist work of literary fiction that explores the ripple effects of actions, secrets, and love across seven generations of Black women.

Sharply observed and laced with humor, THIS IS NOT ABOUT US is a story of growing up and growing old, the weight of parental expectations, and the complex connection between sisters—a big-hearted book about the love that binds a family across generations.

02/19/2026

WOW!!! 🥹 Bluebird Books inaugural BOOK CIRCLE discussing .l.evans The Correspondent was just the icing on the cake follow up to the experience of reading the book. I was too busy to take more photos than this one soaking in the conversation, the community, the laughs, the tears, and just an overall uplifting couple of hours in this crazy world to step back into Sylvia’s world with avid readers and others wanting to get back into reading.

If you see yourself, be sure and share to your story with your own thoughts on the evening 🩵

NEXT UP:
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, March 3rd (6-8P)
Part of our Reading The Banned Book Club partnership with Plus5 where the discussion will be led by English teacher so we can better educate ourselves as to how “banned books” are being taught in our schools to make us educated advocates against book banning.

EAST OF EDEN, March 24 (6-8P)
This John Steinbeck classic is having a resurgence from fame and we’re excited to read and join in a discussion led by English teacher (otherwise known as KMac at Edmond Memorial HS) who did his master thesis on the book.

THEO OF GOLDEN, April 21st (6-8P)
This runaway best seller by 70 year old debut novelist is hitting us all in our feels! A story of giving and receiving, of seeing and being seen, Theo of Golden is a beautifully crafted novel about the power of creative generosity, the importance of wonder to a purposeful life, and the invisible threads of kindness that bind us to one another.

Seating is limited to 30 because we like to keep discussions in a circle where we can see each other and give people the opportunity to interact. Links to the tickets are in our profile and the price includes a light meal with the opportunity to BYOB in a non-spill cup.