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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No mosquitoes?! Considering a second location . . .

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is why some retailers (not us) have stopped accepting cash.

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Either The Left and the Lucky or his Post to Wire album.

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Whaddya think of our latest item of bookstore decor?

A hand holds the LP of Mastodon's Leviathan in front of a shelf full of books. The cover art shows a white whale bursting out of an ocean, with a sailing ship foundering behind it.

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Love the recommendations, but love the wardrobe even more.

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is probably going on a shelf talker.

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We are honored and amazed to report that Leviathan Bookstore was named a Finalist in St. Louis Magazine's A-List in the category of Best Bookstore for 2026. As the new kid on the block, this result is way beyond our expectation, and it's all thanks to those who voted for us. Thank you, thank you!

An infographic advertising Leviathan Bookstore's placement as a Finalist on St. Louis Magazine's A-List as Best Bookstore for 2026. No images, merely white and red lettering on a black background.

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

10,000+ there with us! We'll find out in November how many are readers...

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

One day after seeing Meet Me in St. Louis onstage at the Muny, an early copy of the book arrived from @uchicagopress.bsky.social. Already halfway read; loving it and the foreword by @bcdreyer.social.

The wide stage of the Muny theater in St. Louis’s Forest Park is seen from a middle section seat. Lights are rigged on an overarching scaffold and an illuminated scrim fills the stage, advertising the musical Meet Me in St. Louis.

A hand holds an advance reader copy of Sally Benson’s Meet Me in St. Louis, on which the title appears in bold, black, sans-serif letters amid colorful images of paper dolls and their outfits.

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Nope. The first book is available in the UK and the fourth is available in the US from Small Beer Press (while supplies last) but that's it.

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Let's get these books back in print, stat.

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The title of Greatest Living American Writer is open as of today. RIP, John Crowley. mailchi.mp/9b55af15fcf5...

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Letter from Leviathan #17

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Both fragmented collections of stories from the smalltown American heartland, exposing rot, dread, and failed dreams? Both brilliant in their different ways, of course.

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I always equate Winesburg, Ohio with Gene Wolfe's Peace.

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We do enjoy cricket here, though we take no official position on this matter, since we know nothing about it. Don't get us started on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method, though.

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Good mail day: A bunch of books from the always worthwhile @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social newsletter. I’m don’t think I would have spied any of these without the newsletter’s recommendation.

A stack of books perched on front of my bust of Samuel Johnson, our cat Tanuki on a shelf behind.

Josh Weil/What Came Test
Paige Lewis/Canon
Mahmud El Sayed/The Republic of Memory
Maile Chapman/The Spoil
Madeleine Thien/The Book of Records
Richard Kelly Kemick/Decadence

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We hosted @sawers.bsky.social last month--copies still available here, too!

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Brand-new window display units, more capacious and yet consuming less floor space. Can’t wait to fill ‘em with books!

The front window of a small bookstore is seen from the interior, with the name Leviathan Bookstore on the glass in reversed, hand painted letters. The lower part of the window is covered by a new, wooden, multi-shelved display unit, and in the foreground is a wooden display table with storage below, mounted on wheels and resting in the wooden floor. The new displays are empty of books.

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The most on-brand thing we've ever done. August 1st. Be there. @hesterblum.bsky.social @robdelaney.bsky.social leviathanbookstore.com/events/herma...

An infographic advertising Moby-Dick at 175, an event featuring Melville scholars Hester Blum and Brian Yothers at Leviathan Bookstore at 7pm on Saturday, August 1 in St. Louis. The smiling faces of the academics appear on the left, and the bright yellow cover of the Oxford World's Classics edition of Moby-Dick, with a blue and gray sea and white whale flukes against the background, appears on the right.

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The trophy goes to @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social for this brilliant bracket in today's newsletter

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alex @dude.computer · 08/07/2026

finally had a chance to go to @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social and grab a copy of @devintoshea.bsky.social’s book 🙏

picture of The Veiled Prophet book by Devin Thomas O’Shea on my leg

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Zach in STL @radiofreestl.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My haul from my first visit to @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social . I went to buy @devintoshea.bsky.social ‘s new book, but it is impossible to visit such a bookstore and only get one book.

A stack of three books in focus in the foreground. In the background, an out of focus greyhound, lying on a rug in a sitting room.

The books are:

1. Return of the Ancients, Unruly Tales of the Mythological Weird

2. Context Collapse by Ryan Ruby

3. The Veiled Prophet by Devin Thomas O’Shea

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Dads don't mind if you procrastinate, so it's not too late. All these titles are still available in-store as of now (and always available online). bookshop.org/lists/father...

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Father's Day Recommendations

Checkout out this list on Bookshop

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Same. Joyce took his sweet time finishing his books, so maybe it's contagious. Pact to get our act together next year?

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The best boozy book fair you'll attend this year. Don't miss it. #MarloweMurderMystery leviathanbookstore.com/events/bomba...

An infographic advertising Bombast, Blasphemy, and Betrayal: An Evening of Revelry Celebrating the Uncompromising Life and Cruel Death of Christopher Marlowe on Monday, June 8th at Clements on Cherokee Street, hosted by Leviathan Bookstore. A splatter of blood surrounds the date, and a painting allegedly of Marlowe is on the right of the text.

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Bring back "Englished" to refer to translations! And let American books be Frenched, Japanesed, and Malagasyed!

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We’d sure appreciate your (daily?) vote as Best Bookstore under the shopping & services category at stlmag.com/alist.

An infographic soliciting support for Leviathan Bookstore as Best Bookstore on STL Mag’s A-List (vote once a day from May 19 to June 16 at stlmag.com/alist)

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The Copper Age is over: The bank told us this week we couldn’t get any more pennies. Ending production of them was a good idea, but we're still a little sad. Once these little guys in our cash drawer are gone, we’ll be rounding off all cash purchases made in the store. We’ll miss you, Abe.

A close-up overhead view of about a score of pennies, most of them dirty or scuffed, in a cash register drawer

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

always a great way to learn about new books that won’t be as covered elsewhere — @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social

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Letter from Leviathan #96

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Excited about both these books that @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social sold me via their reliably idiosyncratic newsletter. I bow to no one in my love of Sarah Orne Jewett’s Country of Pointed Firs, but A Marsh Island is new to me.

A hardcover of Those Who Are About to Die: A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator and paperback of A Marsh Island.

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

To say we're stoked about the forthcoming re-release of this novel is an understatement. Our book club pick for December! @bcdreyer.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @levistahl.bsky.social leviathanbookstore.com/store/p/meet...

Cover of the new University of Chicago Press edition of Meet Me in St. Louis by Sally Benson. The title and author name are in bold, sans serif type and are surrounded by palely colorful vintage images of paper dolls, clothing, and accessories.

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Dorian Stuber @ds228.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Every day is exciting at @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social , but yesterday brought a special thrill: the latest edition of bookseller trading cards from @biblioasis.bsky.social! Among the fine purveyors featured is our own @jamescrossley.bsky.social. Beauty way to be!

A fine looking man holding some strategically placed books

Everything you need to know about #58, Crossley

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

In honor of National Poetry Month, we're sponsoring A Poem a Day on Classic 107.3. You should obviously listen around the clock, but if you can't, you'll find the readings (including some from us) online! classic1073.org/a-poem-a-day...

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