Kaboom Books - Houston Independent Bookstore

DA Smith
"Quarantine (and beyond) reading. Kaboom Books may be closed, but get in touch with them and they’ll find you something unexpected to read while you’re cooped up. I asked for Burroughs, Yeats, and Neruda, and they delivered in spades; “Read Russia!” and “Literature from the Axis of Evil” were the result of asking for contemporary short story collections. Like John and Dee say, books are essential. Go buy some."

Kaboom Books is a used bookstore in the Woodland Heights just immediately above Downtown Houston.

For 30 years we had a succession of bookshops in New Orleans, in the back of the French Quarter. Now we are in Houston. Our purpose here is the same as it had been there, which is to provide an inventory of ideas and to act as a sounding board for social discourse within, now, the confines of Houston's hundreds of neighborhoods.

If you tire of looking for books by sitting at home, hunched over your keyboard in your underwear, watching type trickle down the screen, come by and have a browse. Put something more on before you come though. As Lord Buckley said, "You can't do anything without your pants on."

As of tonight Thursday March 19th because of the exponential spread of the virus better for us to close down our shop. We will reopen when we can.

A reminder you can purchase a gift certificate, books - contact us via DM, email, call or text. Will send photos then proceed w processing and pickup in back patio service. Books are essential.

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Kaboom Books is a used bookstore in the Woodland Heights just immediately above Downtown Houston.

WE BUY, SELL AND TRADE; BOOKS ONLY.

Our stock of 100,000 books ranges from current to long out-of-print titles. In contradistinction to the two or three transformative ideas I typically come up with each morning between breakfast and when I open the shop, all of our books are used. There are 76 different sections, principally Fiction, Literature in its various guises, Art, History and Social and Physical Sciences. Each of these has many sub-sets, although we try to stay somewhat North of "Left-handed Romanian women writers of the latter half of the 20 th Century" as a level of organization.