Atlas Books

Book clubs coming at ya this month! 📚

First we have our *new* monthly book club with where we'll be discussing Bryan Washington's newest novel "Family Meal"—join us on Thursday, July 25th at 7pm at the Pride Community Center, located in Suite 200 inside the King Centre.

The following Tuesday, July 30th our "Books & Brews" book club will meet at 6:30pm and dive into Mira Grant's mermaid horror tale "Into the Drowning Deep" 🧜😈

Both books are available for purchase in our book nook .store, so be sure to grab your copy and come out for some lively book chat! ✨

Summer is heating up so come chill with us while we chat books 😎

We're very excited to be partnering to offer a new q***r book club, meeting the last Thursday of the month at 7pm! This month's pick is "Family Meal" by Bryan Washington.

If mermaid horror is more your speed, our "Books & Brews" book club will meet the last Tuesday at 6:30pm to discus Mira Grant's "Into the Drowning Deep." 🧜‍♀️😈

Both titles will be available for purchase .store in our book nook! 📚✨

That's right, we're reading Emma Copley Eisenberg's debut novel "Housemates" for our monthly "Books & Brews" bookclub over ! We've got copies available .store so get ya one and join us Tuesday, June 25th at 6:30pm to chat about art and love and living with roommates in the modern age! 🏠💚

We've got a few things going on this month and would love if your beautiful smiling faces dropped by to see us! We have some new titles in our book nook .store as well, so don't forget to come peruse our selection for your next favorite read 📚✨

Happy Pride, y'all!!

We are very excited to share that we're starting a new monthly book club co-hosted by this month! We'll be reading Emma Copley Eisenberg's new novel "Housemates", which will be available for purchase at our book nook .store and also our online Bookshop.org shop, here: https://bookshop.org/a/14518/9780593242230

Hey, y'all! We have our monthly bookclub coming up tomorrow, May 28th at 6:30pm over at 's downtown taproom. Soak up the last of those long holiday weekend vibes with some fun book talk where we'll be discussing Mona Awad's cautionary tale "Bunny"! See ya there ✨

Another month, another book club read! We're hopping into spring with Mona Awad's "Bunny," a wild tale of what happens when you find yourself unwittingly initiated into a group of besties who display some suspiciously cult-like tendencies 🐰🌷

Grab your copy from our book nook .store and join us Tuesday, May 28th at 6:30pm to discuss!

📣Yes, it's time for a new book club pick for the month!📣 For April, we're reading Palestinian-American author Etaf Rum's "Evil Eye," a moving novel of self-discovery and journeying through grief. It's getting deep into that spring renewal! 🌱 We'll meet Tuesday, April 30th at 6:30pm to discuss 's downtown taproom. See y'all there!.

Can you believe we’re halfway through the month?? We’ve got book club coming up in a few weeks and it’s all romance in the wild Irish countryside with Tricia O’Malley’s “Wild Irish Heart” as a tip o’ the hat to that most dignified of holidays, St. Patrick’s Day ☘️ Come out Tuesday, March 26th and share a pint over some lighthearted book chat downtown taproom 📚🍻 Book club starts at 6:30!.

It's time for a new book club read! 📚✨ This month's pick is Barbara Kingsolver's best-selling, Pulitzer Prize winning novel "Demon Copperhead" — inspired by the classic Dickens tale, join us to discuss this timely story of growing up in Southern Appalachia on Tuesday, February 27th at downtown taproom! 🍻

You can get your copy through our bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/p/books/demon-copperhead-barbara-kingsolver/18506689?ean=9780063251922

Hey, y'all! We're kicking off the new year with some mystery, thrill, and a touch of magic 🔮✨ This month's pick is Emilia Hart's debut novel "Weyward" and is available through our bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/14518/9781250280800

Join us Tuesday, January 30th downtown taproom for some quality bookchat and tasty beverages! 🍻📚 Hope to see ya there!

Wow, it’s the last month of the year and we have our monthly book club meeting on the 26th! This month’s pick is “The Afterlife of Holly Chase” by Cynthia Hand, a spin on the quintessential holiday tale “A Christmas Carol.”

We’ll help you recover from all the holiday cheer, so drop in for some book chat and grab a tasty brew courtesy of our friends 📚🍻

We’re bringing comfy cozy vibes for our November book pick! Come out Tuesday, November 28th to discuss “Legends and Lattes” by Travis Baldree with us. Meeting starts at 6:30pm! ✨

Book available for purchase through our bookshop.org.

💫 We have an author talk coming at you tomorrow, October 27th at 7pm! L.S. McKee () will be reading from her new work ‘Creature Wing Heart Machine’ 💫

Hope to see you there!!

What’s that? An extra spooky edition of book club? That’s right, our next meeting is October 31st, Halloween 👻 Come on out to downtown next Tuesday to discuss our book pick “Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery” at 6:30pm.

Come to tmrw at 2pm for a special author event with Knoxville writer Linda Parsons. We’ll be celebrating her new collection VALEDICTION. Hope to see you there!

It’s a new month which means a new book club pick! For August, we’ll be reading “The Other Einstein” by Marie Benedict, available for purchase online through bookshop.org.

Come chat books over a tasty beer with us! 📚💞🍻

New books in stock!

Books for tfw you’re trying to make sense of the crazy world we live in.

We’ve got our monthly book club tonight! Come on out to JCBC downtown at 6:30 to talk books over a brew!

📚📚 JCBC X ATLAS BOOKS BOOK CLUB 📚📚

Join us tonight for the JCBC X Atlas Book Store Book Club! Gonna be a fun discussion of last months book, and we will be choosing the book for July. See y’all there!

We are open today from 4-9. Ryan is on the taps.

CHEERS! 🍻

Successful first author event .store! Thanks to everyone who came out! Thanks to and for carrying the torch of poetry in our little Appalachian city.

Atlas Books, Johnson City Public Library, Tipton Gallery, and Langston Centre are thrilled to welcome Affrilachian poet and writer Frank X Walker to Johnson City on Monday, May 8th for two special readings to celebrate his new book A is For Affrilachia and his other published works.

The first event will take place at 4pm at the Johnson City Public Library featuring the children's book A is for Affrilachia. At 7pm, the Tipton Gallery will host a reading featuring Walker's previously published titles including Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York.

We're teaming up with Atlas Books for an author talk with award-winning poet Frank X Walker on Monday, May 8 at 4 p.m.!

🔹 Walker will talk about his new children's book, "A is for Affrilachia", which brings awareness to African American accomplishments in Appalachia.🔹

Atlas Books will have his book available to purchase at the event and Walker will sign copies of his work. ✍️

Click link for more info: www.jcpl.org/calendar

Support Trans authors and this Queer-owned bookstore in TN.

Great turnout for our first book club meeting! If you couldn’t make it and would like to join, feel free to reach out for all the sweet deets! 📕🍺✨

📚🍺📚 BOOK CLUB NIGHT 📚🍺📚

Tonight is our first ever joint book club with Atlas Books! Come out and talk about books and beer with us tonight as we will be looking at what the first official book is going to be for next month. We will have some of the good folks from Atlas with us to help guide the discussion and share their love of books! Book Club starts at 6:30.

🚨🚨🚨 ATTENTION LAMPLIGHTERS 🚨🚨🚨

Today is the last day to renew your Lamplighter membership. You can renew in person or online by clicking this link: https://johnsoncitybrewing.square.site/product/beerclub/5?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=false&category_id=6

We are open today from 4-9. Ryan is on the taps.

Cheers 📚🍺📚

✨Look at all these beautiful new books! ✨ We’ve got lots of new titles and restocks of our favorites over in our book nook .store

Come check it out and find the perfect title to start out your 2023 reading adventure! 📚

We’re in the Christmas countdown! 🎄 If you’re still searching for gifts be sure to drop by our book nook .store. We’ve got just the book for every reader in your life!

⭐️ Open 10–10 today and Friday, 10–7pm on Christmas Eve ⭐️

Now in stock .store !!! Hand Bound Journals from the creative imagination of . So excited to share our friend Emma’s magical leather bound goodies. The best gift for the artistic person in your life!

Two stellar community events to connect with visiting authors this week!

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Tuesday, Nov. 15th, 1pm @ ETSU, The Reece Museum. A lecture by Dr. Regina Bradley ( author of CHRONICLING STANKONIA) for the 2nd Annual Hip Hop History Celebration sponsored by the program at ETSU.

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Thursday, Nov. 17th, 6-8pm @ The Renaissance Center in Kingsport, TN. is hosting an artist talk, pop-up exhibit, and author talk with Suzanne Stryk ( author of THE MIDDLE OF SOMEWHERE: AN ARTIST EXPLORES THE NATURE OF VIRGINIA).

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Hope to see y’all at these events! We’ll be book slinging at both. :)

It’s a lovely book stack for a lovely Saturday. 📚🍁We are feeling the autumnal tones of the season and the coziness of our book nook. Come in and make your own stack!

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’s new book Lark Ascending is here! Save the date November 12th at 2pm and join us at to hear him read from his newest novel, an adventure tale for the ages!