The Eclectic Reader

The Eclectic Reader sells mostly used books and some new books at discount prices.

Paperback books are typically half the original cover price. Hardback books are half the original price or less. Exceptions are rare books and special editions.

Would you like to donate books? There are three options:

• Cash – If you would like to sell books, please call ahead. Be prepared to share the list of books, format (hard cover, paperback), and condition. Generally we pay 20% of what we sell the book for (you get $2 on a $10 book). There are exceptions. We are not interested in buying more than a box worth of books at a time.
• Credit – if you wish to donate books to the store for credit, same as above applies. We’ll create a store credit for you. Until future notice store credit applies only to in-store purchases, not online purchases.
• Donations – Always welcome, though not more than two boxes at a time. We make every effort not to throw away books. If we can’t use them we often donate to local charities or put them out for the neighborhood as part of our little free library distribution program.

What kinds of books would we pay cash for? Anything that would sell in about two weeks.

Authors like the below: Sarah J Maas, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Ayn Rand, Tom Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut, Christopher Moore, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Hesse, Henry Miller, Chuck Palahniuk, Diana Gabaldon, Anais Nin, Rumi, Rilke, ee cummings, C.S. Lewis, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Aldo Leopold, Rick Bass, John McPhee, Michael Pollan, George R.R. Martin, Phillip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Henning Mankell, C.J. Box, Louise Penny, Carl Jung, Alan Watts, Thich Nhat Hanh, Pembra Chogrin, Harper Lee, Thomas Pink, Kristin Hannah and more.