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Part 3: Remembering 2016's Top 100 and Then Some
Among our 2016 bestsellers, we were glad to see on the list National Book Award winner Colson Whitehead’s #97 Underground Railroad and #100 The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis, along with Calvin...
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Pop Up Oxford at Square Books
Pop Up Oxford will kick off on Sunday, January 22 through Saturday, January 28 with events and programs celebrating Oxford’s rich cultural scene. Square Books will be participating with a week full of...
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Amor Towles and Michael Farris Smith at Square Books
Wednesday, February 8th at 5pmAmor Towles - A Gentleman in MoscowFrom the author of the delicious 1930s period piece, Rules of Civility, comes this lively novel set in post-revolution Moscow....
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The Blood of Emmett Till
A large crowd waited patiently Friday evening, February 2, for Timothy Tyson’s arrival, when he gave a passionate, rousing, extemporaneous presentation on The Blood of Emmett Till and how Till’s brutal...
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Dear Reader Newsletter
Our latest Dear Reader has arrived. Pick one up in store or check it out here.News Terms: from Square Books
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The 24th Oxford Conference for the Book
The Twenty-Fourth Oxford Conference for the Book will take place Wednesday, March 29 – Friday, March 31, 2017. Visit www.oxfordconferenceforthebook.com for more information.News Terms: from Square Books
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Greg Iles at Square Books
The third installment of the Penn Cage trilogy, Mississippi Blood, releases on Tuesday, March 21st. Greg Iles will make a Thacker Mountain Radio appearance on Thursday, March 23rd. 6pm at Off Square...
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The 24th Oxford Conference for the Book
We're excited about the upcoming Oxford Conference for the Book. For a full schedule, go here.News Terms: from Square Books
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An Unforeseen Life by Mary Ann Connell
When Mary Ann Connell was born, her father told the town: If it's a boy, I'll send up black smoke; if it's a girl, I'll send up white. The entire town of Louisville, Mississippi, saw white smoke...
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John Grisham returns to Square Books
One of the more colorful aspects of Square Books' history involves the many book signings held here when John Grisham began writing books. These went from a family-and-friends affair for A Time to...
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Square Books' Mad, Mad Month of May
Mark your calendars for our event-filled month of May.ONLY IN MISSISSIPPIMay 2– Charles Eagles, author of the award-winning The Price of Defiance, talks about his new book, Civil Rights, Culture Wars...
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Celebration for The Mississippi Encyclopedia
We hope you'll join us this Saturday, May 20th, to celebrate the publication of The Mississippi Encyclopedia, the extraordinary 1,600-page result of years of scholarship by over 700 contributors and...
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Living in Mississippi: The Life and Times of Evans Harrington
A little over a year ago Robert Hamblin's excellent brief biography of William Faulkner, Myself and the World, appeared here. Yesterday we received another most welcome 148-page biography by Hamblin,...
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Camino Island by John Grisham releases Tuesday, June 6th
Camino Island opens with a Princeton library heist of valuable manuscripts, a charismatic bookstore owner (no, this resembles no one we know) whose sideline of antiquarian books might have a shady...
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With the Tuesday release by Doubleday of Camino Island, a crime thriller about the heist of rare book manuscripts from Princeton University–and the cast of characters that sets out to find the robbers,...
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First Amendment Sales Tax Holiday
In celebration of the vital importance of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, which prohibits, among other things, "the making of any law abridging the freedom of speech" or...
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Catherine Lacey on the season premiere of Thacker Mountain Radio
Thacker Mountain Radio returns to Oxford after a summer spent on the road. This week's author is Catherine Lacey, who is the University of Mississippi's 2017 Grisham Writer in Residence. The show will...
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Under Harvey's Eye
Hurricane Harvey has cut a path through the South, much like when Hurricane Katrina destroyed the Gulf Coast in 2005. These catastrophic storms leave behind shambles, and some of the books below do...
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