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She/They is serving Collectible, Used + New Titles in 𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕔𝕦𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕗𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 & non 🦈💨 𝓜𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓵𝔂 𝓺𝓾𝓮𝓮𝓻—SciFi | Horror | Fantasy | Romance | Mystery | ...etc... 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗲. 𝙂𝙚𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙙. 808 1/2 Fifth Ave. Asbury Park, NJ wolfeandkronbooks.com

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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 18/07/2026
Rain confirmed. So far, it's staying OUTSIDE.
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 30/06/2026
WE ARE HIRING: Queer speculative fiction indie bookstore seeks 2-3 Booksellers and an Events Coordinator for long-term relationship in Uptown Asbury Park, NJ Must be really looking to build something that's going to last, not just a casual hook-up for free books, and definitely not a summer fling.
Screenshot of a webpage with white text on black background. The header says WOLFE & KRON BOOKS with navigation on the left and social media icons on the right. Below a large font header says JOB OPENINGS with a dividing line and below two job posts. One says 06/14/26 EVENTS COORDINATOR with a paragraph description in smaller text to the right along with a button that says BE OUR EVENTS COORDINATOR then there's another divider below which is another job posting this one saying 05/25/26 BOOKSELLER with the same format of paragraph description in smaller text and a button that says BOOKSELLERS APPLY HERE
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 14/05/2026
Thank you Codie and fam for being awesome! We have SIGNED COPIES at the store AND if you snag one—or come in and show us you got yours from our from @libro.fm or @bookshop.org stores, WE WILL GIVE YOU A RAD CORAL COVE VINTAGE HOTEL KEYCHAIN!
Photo of author Codie Crowley in a bookstore. She is a white woman with blond hair and a sleeve of tattoos. She is wearing a white crop tank top, red mini-skirt and black boots with black nylons. Next to her is her sister Kaity dressed up as the character Sunday from Body Count. She has light skin, dark brown hair with a maroon streak, and is wearing a hot pink velvet strapless mini-dress with black combat boots. They are standing arm-in-arm on a warm brown hardwood floor, Codie is leaning back against a shelf of books. The room is very long with tall ceilings.
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 14/05/2026
What've y'all been up to? We made S L U T•C R O W N S with @spiritbored.bsky.social for her sapphic slasher #BodyCount
Photo of the inside of a bookstore with a long table set up with people sitting on either side working on craft projects. A white woman with blonde hair, sleeve of tattoos, and wearing a white crop t-shirt is pointing at what one person is making. Center of the image is a poster that says protect trans kids or else, and a satchel with a chicken on it and text that says trans people aren't the reason you can't afford eggsPhoto from inside a bookstore, background is out of focus. In the foreground is a small ceramic dish with three saltwater taffies on it and a teal blue hotel room keychain, the dish is sitting on top of a pink hardcover book titled body count, and a black bookmark with get shelved written on it and the Wolfe & Kron Books logo of a person wearing a wolf skull reading a bookPhoto of hardcover book with a pink dust jacket and blue writing titled body count held up in front of a teal blue and bronze tin ceilingPhoto looking down on a table covered in crafting supplies including hot glue guns, clear plastic dishes full of rhinestones, and mod podge. A light skinned woman with long brown hair wearing a sleeveless pink dress sits on the far side of the table and is pressing a rhinestone into a gold foam crown. The table is covered in light brown cardboard.
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 08/05/2026
⚓ Anchor your spot in that book with a bookmark made with author & artist @venessakelley.bsky.social 💎 Bedazzle horseshoe crab shells with author @ryanlasala.bsky.social 🐡 Wish upon a star making a wish jar with author Leslie Vedder 🐚 Make a magic shell necklace with author Gloria Duke
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 01/04/2026
🔥 one week til our PRE-RELEASE MURDER PARTY for These Familiar Walls by @cj-dotson.bsky.social at Porta in Asbury Park, NJ We are DEAD serious, you don't want to miss this TICKET TO MURDER www.exploretock.com/portaasburyp... #Horror #BookSky #HorrorBook #MurderParty
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 30/03/2026
Wednesday April 8th at 6pm JOIN US! ...if you dare... for CJ Dotson's Haunted Murder Masquerade! Nothing is certain, except someone is dead ...and it might be you... www.exploretock.com/portaasburyp... @cj-dotson.bsky.social #murderparty #horrornovel
A poster in the style of old horror / creature feature movies, reminiscent of Swamp Thing, or Creature from the Black Lagoon. In the center is a green hardcover book titled These Familiar Walls, with the words written In flames over a dark green background and the roof of the house. A gold badge is on the right side of the book and says NEW RELEASE! in black letters. To the left of the book there is a section of text which reads "pre-launch of her new horror book!!! Run now grab one early on 4-8-26 official release 4-14-26"
To lower the right is a picture of a smaller paperback book with a white cover and a picture of a tentacle squirming down a drain at the center, along the top the title reads The Cut. Across the top of the poster it better reads "Wolfe and Kron Books Presents a Haunted Murder Masquerade at Porta, Asbury Park, NJ" At the top right there is the Wolfe & Kron Books store logo in black and white. It is a drawing of a person in a cloak facing to the left, wearing a wolf skull over their face with a sun-ray tiara on top of their head. They are looking down at a book in their hands. Behind them is an arch delineating the edge of the logo and the store name is written below.
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 28/03/2026
Thank you to @bookshop.org for featuring us today on Instagram! ...and for finally convincing us to say goodbye when we were IMMEDIATELY locked out of our account. The funniest part? Once upon a time Fin almost went to work at Instagram to help them develop better tools to help Small Businesses.
A screenshot of of an email from Instagram stating "Take action or lose access to wolfeandkronbooks" claiming the account had violated Community Standards. Black text on white background with a large blue button that says "Review details"A screenshot of Instagram saying "You submitted an appeal on March 28, 2026" in white text on a black background. There is a clock icon at the top and at the bottom a vaguely threatening promise that this is the only chance for appeal before the account is deleted.
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 27/03/2026
This springtime creeping ick seriously sucks. We're down for the count, will be back Thursday 4/2 *full body sneeze'n'shiver*
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 26/03/2026
Thursday 3/26/26 - Closed cause sick and y'all don't want this. Will update tomorrow if we're feeling better. Sorry y'all. Send some love in the form of buying a book from Fin's BIR Trans Rights Readathon list on @bookshop.org bookshop.org/lists/trans-... #transrightsreadathon #trr26
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 30/01/2026
A quick reminder that there's another futuristic fictional encyclopædia that's a distillation of all knowledge. In it the entry for Earth is two words: Mostly harmless. It seems likely that Mr.👀🪢🍆🚀 has misplaced his towel.
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 13/11/2025
This pairing makes sense, right? Asking for a friend. @bitterkarella.bsky.social @mandykathryn.bsky.social
Books on a wooden shelf in front of a brick wall. On the left is "Moonflow" a splatter-punk trans horror novel by Bitter Karella. The cover is hot-pink, red, blue, and white with a 70s acid feel picture of a woman with mushrooms growing out of her and skull above. On the right is "The Princess Bride" a fantasy by William Goldman, best known for its movie adaptation featuring Mandy Patinkin, André the Giant (among others). The cover is olive green with gold details and the edges are stenciled.
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 17/04/2025
Indie Bookstore Day is next Saturday April 26th!!! We'll be open 11am-7pm with Door Prizes, new Wolfe & Kron merch, and a Golden Ticket from @libro.fm !!! Reserve a tote NOW and RSVP for FREE to guarantee your Door Prize! www.eventbrite.com/e/independen... #Indiebookstoreday2025
Graphic with Wolfe & Kron Books in black across the top and three books in a stack (their logo) on the right. Below says "11am to 7pm | Door Prizes | New Merch" On the left is the 2025 Independent Bookstore Day logo, a circle with the text across the middle and "SATURDAY, APRIL 26TH, 2025" in red along the bottomPurple background with a pic of a pair of black can-style headphones and a Golden Ticket that says "GOLDEN TICKET" sitting through them with very small black text on the bottompartly obscured by the headphones "The bearer of this golden | a year's supply of our". Text main text above the headphones and ticket says "Saturday, April 26th | Find the | Golden Ticket | in our store and you'll win | 12 free audiobook credits!"Photo of a red tote bag hanging in front of a shelf of books. The books are all shelved horizontally with a few dividing books vertically. The shelf is painted black with pale blue edges. The red tote bag has an image of a standard rectangular danger sign in red, white, and black. It says "DANGER | FALLING FOR BOOKS" below is written in black "Wolfe & Kron Books | (732)533-0119 | Asbury Park, NJ"Photo of inside a bookstore. In the foreground are tall black shelves with gold edges. Books are shelved face out so the covers are exposed. The ceiling is painted blue with gold detail, a vintage embossed tin ceiling. The floor is hardwood. More shelves can be seen receding into the background. A blue t-shirt hangs at the end of the first set of shelves. It has a graphic on it of a shelf of books with hand lettering above and below saying "Wolfe & Kron" "Get shelved"
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 04/04/2025
4/04 we open
Black and white picture of a seagull facing left from the neck up in 3/4 view with its mouth open. It's on a black background with a paragraph of text at the top, then 4/04 very large and centered above the seagull head. 

To the left of the mouth is written REOPENING  / Used books / New books / Zines. 

To the right behind its head is written 11am-7pm 

In the bottom left corner is written @wolfeandkronbooks. In the bottom right is written GET / SHELVED
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 05/03/2025
TONIGHT! Catch us at 3BR Distillery in Keyport, NJ from 6-8pm for a Clothing & Book Swap! Don't have much to bring? Don't worry! Some of us folks are taking advantage of a closet clean out and don't want to bring everything back home... ...just don't be a jerk about it. ALL BODIES WELCOME!
Orange background poster with a retro vintage feel showing a photo of a stack of clothing in the center. Text reads "Free! / Wednesday, March 5 / CLOTHING & BOOK SWAP / from 6pm to 8pm / 7 Main St, Keyport, NJ / bring what you don't want / take what sparks Joy / sponsored by" three logos at the bottom are for from left to right 3br Distillery, Wolfe & Kron Books, and ASK.
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 28/02/2025
This is not a One-Day Performative Boycott. This is DAY ONE of a series of ECONOMIC BLACKOUTS. —just in case @scalzi.com wasn't the only one who didn't do their research—
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 28/02/2025
It's not a one-day. It's day one.
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 28/02/2025
Don't feed the fascists #EconomicBlackout
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 24/02/2025
NO ASSIGNED READING. Ever. Cock & Mock -tails that pair well with whatever tales you've been reading. 🎟️ Ticket gets you discount on the beverages & a PRIZE from us—we promise it doesn't suck.
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 20/02/2025
Y'all, we got your read picked out for May so get ready to pre-game the summer reads—preorder link SOON. "The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman" by @nikostratis.com ...and daaaam, gonna need to hit the record store after reading this one.
A navy blue paperback book titled "The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman" by Niko Stratis propped up on a vintage Panasonic stereo with record player / 8-track / AM/FM radio. Behind the book on top of the record player's smokey brown plexi lid, propped against the wall, are four record sleeves. On either side of the stereo are large old looking black & faux wood speakers.
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 13/02/2025
You won't believe how easy it is to support this indie bookstore! eBooks: bookshop.org/shop/wolfean... Audiobooks: libro.fm/wolfeandkron... Gift Cards: www.wolfeandkronbooks.com/gift-cards-a... Shop In-Store: wolfeandkronbooks.com #BookSky #indieBookstore
Photo from the sidewalk of the Wolfe & Kron Books storefront. Above a large window and the front door is a white sign with black writing that says "Wolfe & Kron Books | Show some spine. | Get Shelved." and a logo of a stack of books. To the right of the store window is a wall mounted flag pole with a Progress Pride flag. Below the flag is a sandwich board that says "It's not book hoarding if it's your carbon offset." The door to the store is propped open and there are books displayed in the window.
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 06/02/2025
In case y'all are wondering what's happening at the store, here is a photo of bookshelves not yet attached to the walls, and a pile of stuff that didn't fit in the storage unit
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 31/01/2025
Thought we were a bookstore. Apparently we're actually in demolition & mold remediation business? ...yes, the store is still closed, and no, we don't have a reopening date. Did we mention we designed some rad t-shirts and have those for sale?
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 27/01/2025
THE SHIRTS ARE DONE!!! —and totes too!— Pick yours up at 3BR Distillery tomorrow during #AsynchronousBookClub ...or if you missed ordering one during our Kickstarter we'll have a limited number for SALE too @asynchronous-books.bsky.social
Person standing in a warehouse space holding a white t-shirt in front of them. The t-shirt has a black design of a stack of books in the style of a tarot card with the words "THE TBR" written at the bottom and "XVI" at the top.A person standing in a warehouse space holding a black t-shirt in front of them. Their hands are giving the "rock" sign. The t-shirt has a white design of horizontal wiggling lines with the outlines of books emerging at the center. White uppercase text at the top says "WOLFE & KRON" and "UNREAD PLEASURES" at the bottom.A person standing in a warehouse space holding a grey-blue t-shirt in front of them. The t-shirt has a white outline drawing of a bookshelf with books on it, and a human skull and Wolfe skull on top of the shelf. Written in white are the words "WOLFE & KRON BOOKS" at the top and "GET SHELVED" at the bottom. A white line framing the drawing is interrupted by the words "SHOW SOME SPINE."
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Wolfe & Kron Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚫🧊 @wolfeandkronbooks.com · 26/12/2024
Oh hi there. Whatcha reading?
Photo inside a bookstore. The ceiling is blue with bronze relief details. One wall is brick with tall bookshelves full of books. There is a snap back cap in the foreground that says "Read Banned Books" and trans flags above it. On the back wall of the store there are paintings of old cars. There is a table in the center of the store with various stickers, enamel pins, and other items displayed. Handwritten sign on a window says in all caps "Come on in & touch some books / we are open" The photographer can be seen reflected in the window and is wearing a white animal hat. Also reflected are cars and a building across the street. Photos of hardcover books on a shelf in front of a brick wall. "Let Us Descend" by Jesmyn Ward; "Remarkably Bright Creatures" by Shelby Van Pelt; "Piglet" by Louise Hazel; "My Monticello" by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson; "The Dearly Beloved" by Cara Will; "Desert Creatures" by Kay Chironister; "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver; on the next shelf down can see a small disco ball, a dark blue pamphlet that says "Free Period Press" - "50 SCI-FI BOOKS" and a paperback copy of "Lost City Radio" by Daniel Alarcón. The books are all standing face out to display the cover art. The shelves are stained wood mounted with black brackets onto vertical strips of blonde wood bolted to the brick. The underside of the shelves is painted matte black.
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