Independent bookseller · Iowa City, Iowa
Foxglove Books is an independent shop in Iowa City. We shelve new and used titles side by side, track down special orders one at a time, and keep the lights on late for author evenings, book club, and story hour.
Book club subscriptions
Choose the kind of reading you like and we put the book in your hands before the group meets at the shop. No list to keep up with, and no meeting you cannot skip.
Our booksellers pick the title each month, working between new releases, backlist favorites, and used copies when they turn up in good shape.
Your copy is set aside at the counter, or sent to the address on file, whichever is easier that month.
Meetings happen at the shop, around one long table, with the kettle on and a bookseller keeping the conversation moving.
Club members hear about author evenings, signed copies, and story hour before we post any of it to anyone else.
Author events
Readings, conversations, and signings in the back room. The chairs come out, the coffee goes on, and the talk usually runs past the end of the book.
An author reads from the new book, then takes questions from the room.
A bookseller asks the questions: where the book started, what changed on the way, and what comes next.
Bring the copy you already own, or pick one up at the counter on your way in.
Send an RSVP and we will hold a chair for you.
Special orders, RSVPs & gift cards
If it is in print, we can usually track it down. Give us the title, the author, or just the half-remembered cover, and a bookseller will write back before anything is ordered.
One form for the three things we are asked for most. Choose what you need and tell us the rest in your own words.
Children's story hour
Bring the small ones and settle in on the rug in the children's corner. We read a few picture books, let the room choose the last one, and nobody minds if someone needs to wander.
A bookseller reads, the kids listen or do not, and the wrigglers are always welcome.
Picture books, early readers, and board books low enough for small hands to reach.
Ask us for the books that hold up to a hundred readings, and the ones to wrap for a birthday.
