Read the Region

11/19/2025

Calling ALL Bookstore Lovers! ✨❄️

The indies of Read the Region are excited to announce this year’s Holiday Book Crawl starting on Small Business Saturday and running through December 25th! Here’s how it works:

❄️ Spend $10 or more at any participating store to earn a passport stamp.
❄️ Visit all 12 stores to receive our special holiday enamel pin.
❄️ Collect all 12 stamps and be entered to win a Bookstore Gift Certificate Prize Pack. Before you visit, please check each store’s website or call to confirm hours.

Happy crawling and happy reading! ✨📚

04/04/2024

📚 23 days until Independent Bookstore Day!

Time to unveil our 2024 Read the Region Bookstore Crawl! Join us from 4/26-4/28 to explore NINE participating bookstores. Spend $10 at each stop to earn entries into our drawing for one of three fantastic gift baskets filled with bookish swag and gift cards!

11/13/2023

🚨 ANNOUNCING the 2023 Holiday Book Crawl for Sacramento-area bookstores! 🔔 There’s never been a better time to support your local, independent bookstores! Discover all the hidden book havens we have right here in our backyard.

This year’s Holiday Book Crawl runs from Dec. 1st - Dec. 24th, so you’ll have almost one whole month to visit all 11 participating bookstores, spend $10+ at each bookstore, and be entered into a grand prize raffle for a chance to win ONE YEAR’S WORTH OF BOOKS—$50 gift certificate to each bookstore!—a $550 value.

We need places to go where people’s lives, stories, and differences are valued and celebrated... places where we can discover a new skill or passion. Bookstores are the perfect places to feel connected. They are so essential to everyday living!

Bring your friends, take your kids, grab your grandparents, and head on out to these fine local bookstores! Passports will be available at each bookstore starting Dec. 1st, and you’ll just get a stamp at each store and drop-off your passport at your last stop to be entered to win the grand prize.

PARTICIPATING BOOKSTORES:

Amatoria Fine Art Books
Beers Books
Capital Books
Crawford’s Books
East Village Bookshop
Face in a Book
Pleasant Pheasant
Ruby’s Books
A Seat at the Table Books
Underground Books
Wild Sisters Book Company

Mark your calendars, and help us spread the word!
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05/10/2022

Congratulations to our GRAND PRIZE WINNERS!

Miranda F earned 24 entries after visiting 9 stores! 🎉

AND

Jill P earned 18 entries after visiting 8 stores! 🎉

The Grand Prize Collections contain gift cards, swag and books from the 10 participating stores!

Thank you all for a great year and we can’t wait to see you on 4/29/23!

04/30/2022

Did you catch Amatoria on ABC 10 this morning with Mark S Allen? Tomorrow is the big day! We can’t wait to celebrate!

'Amatoria' Fine Art Books celebrate Independent Book Store DayOn Saturday, 10 book stores around Sacramento, Folsom and Elk Grove are planning to celebrate I...

04/28/2022

Track your progress this year with either our paper-passport OR our mobile app! With the paper-passport you will collect stamps at each stop and with the mobile app you will "check-in" at the register. Both options will collect not only your progress but your entries for a chance to win one of our Grand Prize Collections!

Step 1: Visit stores on the Gold Country Tour Map
Step 2: Spend a minimum of $10 at each stop and earn the "Swag" item specific to that store
Step 3: Receive stamp on passport from store clerk OR scan the code at the register to check-in

At each store, you will receive a stamp or check-in to be entered to win one of the two Grand Prize Collections! At your fifth store that day, you will earn an additional entry. At the sixth store, you’ll earn two additional entries and so on. Therefore, if you have 10 stamps or 10 check-ins that's equivalent to 31 entries! Wow! Don't worry we will keep track of all of this for you but feel free to use the "Entry Tracker" on slide 3 to see your progress!

04/27/2022

Introducing our mobile app made to help you conquer all 10 stops on our Gold Country Book Tour!

Plan your route, track your stops, earn your prizes and get exclusive details for each store!

Don’t let anything slow you down…

Download now!

04/26/2022

We are just 4 days out from Independent Bookstore Day! Today we highlight our final store on our Gold Country Book Tour, Underground Books! 🎉

Underground Books opened in the summer of 2003 and is the literary hub of Oak Park. Underground Books hosts book signings by local and national authors, lectures, poetry events and children’s story time! 📚

They will be open until 6pm on Independent Bookstore Day.

Follow them today!

04/26/2022

HELLO Wild Sisters Book Company! ✨

As soon as you walk into Wild Sisters Book Company prepare to be enchanted! Tucked into the quiet, friendly Tallac Village Shopping Center in the heart of Tahoe Park, Wild Sisters Book Company offers readers of all ages bookish treasures. Wild Sisters offers new and used books, vintage goods, gifts and vinyl records – a lot is packed into our small store – be sure to explore every nook and cranny!

You’ll come for the books, but stay for delightful conversation with neighbors and friends as you discover what “uniquely portable magic” Wild Sisters Book Company has in store for you!

They will have extended hours until 8pm on 4/30 so add them to your Gold Country Book Tour route and enjoy all their special day of events including:

11am: Coffee from Wild Soul Coffee ☕️
12pm: Poetry Reading 📝
1pm, 2pm & 3pm: Storytimes 📖
5pm: Meltdown Ice Cream Truck 🍦

Plus! Local Artists & La Dulce Vida Bakery

Follow them today!

04/23/2022

Can you believe we have 10 stops on our Gold Country Book Tour? Our tour stretches across the region and includes stores in Sacramento, Elk Grove, Folsom and Davis!

Our next stop, Avid Reader Bookstore is located in Davis! Avid Reader is a general interest bookstore and has been at the heart of downtown Davis for over 34 years! They carry new books for all ages and the staff is always happy to help customers find that special treasure! 📚

Day of Events:

10am-12pm: Children's Event with Pamela Adler, author of Maddy and Mia: TriPaw Tales 🐩

Follow them today!

04/20/2022

Let’s head on over to Folsom where we will find another stop on our Gold Country Book Tour!

Ruby's Books located in the Historic District of Folsom carries a highly curated selection of new books from many genres, toys and gifts. They strive to create a space that will make readers of all ages want to come back again and again to fuel their love of books! Stop on in, meet their crew, including their namesake golden retreiver, Ruby. 🐾

DAY OF EVENTS:

8am-1pm: Historic Folsom Farmers Market 🥬🍅💐☕️

12pm-2pm: Local Author Meet and Greet featuring:

Amber Garza
Bernard Wonzy
Brett Hoffstadt
Brain Wallace
JaNay Brown-Wood
Jenny Lundquist
Joanna Rowland
Lenore Stutznegger
Lisa Riddiough
Lisa Schmid
Lori Mortensen
Rachel Cabalse

Advanced Reader Copy Hunt while supplies last! 🔎📚

Plus sales and giveaways! 🎉

Follow them today!

04/20/2022

The countdown to is ON! Ten days until one of the most exciting days of the year for indie bookstores and the people who love us. We'll have all kinds of events, activities, and special products and freebies, so stay tuned to our social media or subscribe to our newsletter (link in bio) to stay up to date.
Come on by between 8am and 6pm on April 30 and spend $10 or more so you can make the tough decision between an exclusive waterproof sticker or a delicious Kalani Kakes mini. One gift per customer, while supplies last.