Parkside Bookshop

Happy last week of school BPS! 😎
This summer, read as much as you’d like of whatever you’d like! JUST READ and join us for an end of summer pizza party with Upper Crust Pizza & Chicken ! 🍕📗☀️

🎶No more pencils, ALL THE BOOKS.
No more teachers, dirty looks🎶
(That’s how the song goes, right?)

Link in bio for tickets! 🏴‍☠️👑

Joke books, boat books, dad books! 🤓📚
Father’s Day is Sunday June 21st and a new book makes the perfect gift!
BONUS: come get a SIGNED COPY of “The Wreck Of The Mentor” at our event this Friday 6/12 with author and historian Eric Jay Dolin! ⚓️

Happy Pride! 🌈✨💕 Pop by Parkside today to take a break from the heat, check out our Pride table, grab a Pride bookmark, and snap a pic in front of our read with Pride window! (Yes, the paper chains are back⛓️)

Excited to be included in the Boston Globe 2026 Best of the Best! 🎉📚✨
Thank you to our lovely booksellers, customers, authors, and the South End community who have all made Parkside such a special place! We are certainly in good company on this list.

Congrats to our neighbors at Formaggio and Coppa who also made the list! What a block!

Happy Pride from Parkside! ✨🌈
Stop by and snap a pic with our ~reading rainbow~, grab a Pride bookmark, and check out Kim Narby and her debut novel described as “if Chappell Roan’s ‘Kaleidoscope’ was a novel.”

(How cute is in the window? 🤗)

Tuesday is new release day! We’ve got the new Maggie O’Farrell, Ann Patchett, Eric Jay Dolin, and more! 📚✨
Come ‘n get ‘em!

As we know Laurel is on the pulse of the Boston art scene.
She was just talking about photographer Rania Matar’s exhibition 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝘿𝙤 𝙄 𝙂𝙤? (لوين روح) at the & when her book of the same name arrived at Parkside!

Sublime photographic meditations on womanhood, homeland and the daunting prospect of immigration

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Lebanese Civil War, Boston-based photographer Rania Matar (born 1964) collaborated with young Lebanese women to visualize their life stories and complex relationships to their beautiful, war-torn homeland.

Grab her book from Parkside and check out the exhibitions while they’re in Boston!

Missed Thursday Murder Book Club last night? Join us for the next one! 🔍📘

Tap the link in bio to purchase the book & RSVP!