Staff Picks
Bookshop lists do not reflect inventory in our brick and mortar store.
Manager
Ellen is a Blacksburg resident who has settled comfortably into the middle-age trifecta of gardening, cooking, and reading. She likes weird literary fiction and most things dystopian.
Ellen
Nico
Assistant Manager
Nico is a semi-reformed emo kid from the Gulf coast who enjoys hiking with her dog, watching the worst 90s movies imaginable, and pining for the ocean. Her literary bread-and-butter includes cli-fi, speculative fiction, Arab literature, and nonfiction science.
Molly
Lead Bookseller
Molly is a transplant from the upper Midwest who spends her free time napping with her dog, crocheting absurd numbers of blankets, and making lists. Her favorite genres include gothic horror, fantasy (especially if there are dragons), and nonfiction about history and science.
Bookseller
Ava is a born and raised Virginian who loves to travel and crochet, and who unhealthily obsesses over her two cats. Her favorite genres to explore when reading include fantasy, romance, the occasional nonfiction, and any book that will cause immense heartache.
Ava
Bookseller
Xander is from first Connecticut, then Minnesota, and is an MFA in creative writing student at Virginia Tech. He spends his free time gardening, cooking, and getting lost in maps. His favorite genres are poetry, personal essays, experimental fiction, comics, and contemporary philosophy/theory.