The Bookhouse / Sweetside Records

12/31/2025

CLOSED

FRIDAY AND SUNDAY THIS WEEK!!!

06/07/2025

05/22/2024

Our friends next door at Barn and Brick

We just finished loading the van with fresh items for tomorrow’s live show! Tune in virtually and find some great items!

06/01/2022

It has long been a dream of mine to own a bookstore. Not a franchise. Not a store specializing in coffee table books and bestsellers and thrillers ... I mean a "real" bookstore. A place where you can spend all day browsing through thousands of used books to find covers and authors and subjects you never even realized might be of interest to you. A place you could leave from with a multitude of books, make a big stack on your nightstand and let the pile slowly dissipate as you read each and every one.

When our friend, Frank, the owner of Adirondack Rustic Rose, told me that he would be leaving his beautiful corner space in our building at the end of 2020, I knew that, even though it was terrible timing, I had to take a chance and give it a shot.

Amber and I cleaned up the space and scraped and painted. And after we built shelves and a counter, I began to cultivate and curate a collection of what I felt were some pretty great books ... contemporary American fiction, lots of biography, labor and working class histories, leftist and anarchist and socialist and libertarian tomes and we added in some amazing art books, music books and graphic novels. I also took on and sorted through some smaller private collections. I talked our friend, Ed, into sharing the store with me and expanding his collection of records into a brick and mortar retail record shop.

Sweetside Records has been doing very well in the space but the bookstore has simply not. As such, we have decided to give the space over to Ed so he can continue filling it with vinyl. We have reduced our collection considerably. At Sweetside's shop, we will continue to maintain our 12 foot bookshelf that runs along the side of the service counter and all books on these shelves will be $1 for paperbacks and $2 for hardcover, regardless of the indicated pricing.

At Rock Hill Cafe, we will continue to stock a small carefully-curated selection of books at the back of our stage. These Bookhouse favorites are priced as marked, as are the books written by local authors on our wall shelving. We thank you for your support and are genuinely sorry to be minimizing what I feel is a much-needed community resource. Please support Ghost Books in the Shirt Factory and Owl Pen Book Farm in Greenwich and Lyrical Ballad in Saratoga (and all other great used bookstores wherever you can find them). Maybe we'll see you at one of them!

05/27/2022

Weekend plans ✔️

05/25/2022

We’ll be joining the big sale next weekend with a book sale! June 3-5. 📚 Mark your calendars!