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Welcome to our beloved community of Booksmith members!
Welcome to our beloved community of Booksmith members!
Receive a year of exclusive benefits as you show your devotion to independent bookselling, diverse literary voices, vibrant cultural conversation and joyful browsing. We offer members-only sales, birthday discounts, tote bags, gift cards, event tickets and more — across six membership levels. Choose (or renew) your membership level below — for yourself
and/or as a gift for your favorite reader.
And welcome!
Join and/or give a membership:
Bookworm
“It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” - James Baldwin
Bookworm member benefits include
- Access to two 20% OFF MEMBERS-ONLY SALES
- The oval READ sticker
Reader
“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul—BOOKS.” - Emily Dickinson
Reader member benefits include
- Access to two 20% OFF MEMBERS-ONLY SALES
- The oval READ sticker
- 20% OFF full-price books on your BIRTHDAY
- The iconic Booksmith TOTE BAG
- Coupons for the Coolidge Corner Theater POPCORN
Neighbor
“A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.” - Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
Neighbor member benefits include
- Access to two 20% OFF MEMBERS-ONLY SALES
- The oval READ sticker
- 20% OFF full-price books on your BIRTHDAY
- The iconic Booksmith TOTE BAG
- Coupons for the Coolidge Corner Theater POPCORN
- FREE TICKETS to selected author events
Browser
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.” - Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
Browser member benefits include
- Access to two 20% OFF MEMBERS-ONLY SALES
- The oval READ sticker
- 20% OFF full-price books on your BIRTHDAY
- The iconic Booksmith TOTE BAG
- Coupons for the Coolidge Corner Theater POPCORN
- FREE TICKETS to selected author events
- $75 Booksmith GIFT CARD
Friend
“How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!” - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Friend member benefits include
- Access to two 20% OFF MEMBERS-ONLY SALES
- The oval READ sticker
- 20% OFF full-price books on your BIRTHDAY
- The iconic Booksmith TOTE BAG
- Coupons for the Coolidge Corner Theater POPCORN
- FREE TICKETS to selected author events
- $75 Booksmith GIFT CARD
- 10% OFF full-price books ALL THE TIME
- Member-rate MOVIE NIGHTS at the Coolidge
- FREE SHIPPING on orders of $100 and up
- FREE BOOKS at author events
Partner
“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.” - Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
Partner member benefits include
- Access to two 20% OFF MEMBERS-ONLY SALES
- The oval READ sticker
- 20% OFF full-price books on your BIRTHDAY
- The iconic Booksmith TOTE BAG
- Coupons for the Coolidge Corner Theater POPCORN
- FREE TICKETS to selected author events
- $75 Booksmith GIFT CARD
- 10% OFF full-price books ALL THE TIME
- Member-rate MOVIE NIGHTS at the Coolidge
- FREE SHIPPING on orders of $100 and up
- FREE BOOKS at author events
- Your very own PERSONAL SHOPPER