Our next Big Book Sale Event
FALL 2025
Friday, December 5 to Monday December 8, 2025
inside the Westport Library
20 Jesup Road, Westport CT
Thank you to all of our patrons, book and media donors, and volunteers, who helped make our Spring 2025 Book Sale Event a huge success !
Want to support your community? Volunteer with us at the Fall Book Sale!
Help us set up at the Library before the sale starts, or volunteer during the sale.
Send an email to volunteers@westportbooksaleventures.org
Can't wait until our next Book Sale Event? Shop all year 'round at our Westport Book Shop at 23 Jesup Road in downtown Westport. For store hours and other information, click here. Or shop with us online, at our eBay store www.ebay.com/str/westportbooksalesct -- items are added to our eBay store on a regular basis.
Don't miss out -- join our mailing list to receive email notifications about our Book Sale Events and other book sale news.
Upcoming Westport Book Shop Events
Short Story Club at the Book Shop
Short on time but long on interest?
Every month the Westport Book Shop's Short Story Club
will get together to discuss another classic or
contemporary short story or pair of stories
Meets at the Westport Book Shop on
the fourth Thursday of every month
from 6:00 to 7:30pm
Come to one session, some, or all, it's up to you!
Space is limited; registration is required.
Each month's short story selection will be announced by or around the first day of the month, and registration for that month's session will open when the email announcing that month's selection goes out. Make sure you are on our email list (use the "Contact Us" form at the bottom of the page), so you'll be among the first to know!
The next session of the Short Story Club will be Thursday, October 23, 2025. We will be discussing three stories for Halloween:
The very short classic "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe,
"The Bees" (2002) by Dan Chaon, and
"What They Left Behind" (2003) by Stephen King
Registration for each Short Story Club session is required, as space is limited. To register, please phone the Westport Book Shop at 203-349-5141 or send an email to: RSVP@westportbooksaleventures.org
Story selections usually are available at your local library, either singly or as part of a compilation, and often are available online. The Westport Book Shop will have copies of each month's stories available to borrow. You may also be able to obtain printouts of most stories at The Westport Library, for a modest fee of $0.15 per page. This month, "The Tell-Tale Heart" is readily available in a variety of Poe or horror anthologies, as well as online. "The Bees" may be found online through the website writingatlas.com, and also in the anthology Poe's Children. Stephen King's story may be found in his story collection Just After Sunset, and also as part of an anthology titled Transgressions: Vol. 2.
We look forward to another great discussion! Halloween costumes would be much appreciated this month (costumes are not required, but they would be fun!).
Fifth Annual Family Fun + Halloween Pumpkin Painting Project on Jesup Green
Saturday, October 11, 2025
from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Join the Westport Book Shop, Earthplace and the Westport Tree Board on Jesup Green on Saturday, October 11, 2025 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for crafts, face painting, surprise guest animals and more!
Enjoy the musical stylings of members of the Staples High School Jazz Band
Come dressed for fun! (costumes optional, but encouraged)
Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Rain Date Sunday, October 12 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Reception for October Exhibiting Artist
Myla Saperstein
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Meet local teen photographer Myla Saperstein at a reception for the Westport Book Shop's exhibiting guest artist at the Shop's Drew Friedman Art Place for the month of October.
Join us for a Sip 'n Chat on Wednesday evening, October 22, 2025, from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm, at the Westport Book Shop, at 23 Jesup Road.
RSVPs encouraged -- call 203-349-5141 and let us know you're coming! or send an email to RSVP@westportbooksaleventures.org
For more information about Myla and this exhibit, visit our "News" page.
Recent Events
March 13, 2025
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
at The Westport Library
in the Trefz Forum
A benefit event
to help sustain our employment program and grow our community
Since opening the Westport Book Shop in early 2021, we have provided over 10,500 hours of paid part-time employment and job training for more than a dozen adults and young adults with disabilities. Our employees are learning and exercising workplace skills that are transferable to other business and retail environments, and they have the opportunity for frequent everyday interaction with the community. Over this time, we have also provided more than $200,000 of support to The Westport Library.
On March 13, 2025, we hosted a benefit we called Growing Our Community, to raise funds to ensure we continue to have a solid financial foundation, and to support the potential growth or our employment program. Guests enjoyed live music performed by members of the Staples High School Jazz Ensemble, light bites & beverages, a paddle raise, and both a live and silent auction of a variety of unique books, vinyl, artworks, and experiences.
If you missed the benefit, you can still support our efforts: click here to donate. Thank you
Benefit Committee
Jocelyn Barandiaran ✧ Robin Berggren ✧ Tina Bory ✧ Katherine Caro ✧ Pamela Cunningham ✧
Linda Franciscovich ✧ Sharuna Mahesh ✧ Linda Monteiro Hopper ✧ Nancy Wahler
Our generous Event Sponsors
Karen Kleine Dan Levinson
Eileen Lavigne Flug Linda & Scott Hopper
Robin & Brad Berggren Jocelyn & Walter Barandiaran
Nancy Kail Ann & Bill S(c)heff(l)er
Anonymous
Our generous Food and Beverage Sponsors
Catering provided and subsidized by Seaside Sliders, LLC. Wine donated by Brescome Barton Inc.
Beer donated by New England Brewing Co. and by Whalers Brewing Company
Auction items generously donated by Miggs Burroughs, Jack Geer, Markley Rizzi, Kerstin Rao/Vivid Cottage, Rowene Weems, Heidi Hammer, The Mark Twain House & Museum, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, The Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic Aquarium, Stewie the Duck Swim School, the Ridgefield Playhouse, TerraSole Restaurant, Knopf Doubleday, The Wakeman Town Farm, The Party Partner, and Big Y
ONLINE Book Sale -- Ongoing
The Westport Library Book Sale is online!
Visit our Online Shop on eBay at www.ebay.com/str/WestportBookSalesCT and browse a broad selection of noteworthy, collectible, antiquarian and hard-to-find out-of-print books from our Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Biography, History and Politics, Art, Architecture & Design, Photography categories, and more!
Choose to have your purchases shipped to you, or pick up your order at the Westport Book Shop, 23 Jesup Road.
Items are added to our online store regularly, so check back often!
