books for all y’all
Curating books for curious dreamers, welcome to the Paper Hearts Bookstore! Whether it’s at our storefront in Pettaway Square in Little Rock, popping up at local events across the Natural State, or on the road in our soon-to-be mobile Book Truck, we’ll always have the best new and used books for adults and children. Come read with us!
Our new storefront is located at 420 E. 21st Street in Pettaway Square. We would love to see you there or at a pop-up. Bring your pals, we’ll bring the smiles. It is time to talk books!
Upcoming events!
Mark your calendar! If you know you’ll be at a certain event and want a specific book, place an order via email or the “special order” tab two weeks before the event and we will do our best to get it to you!
Book Clubs
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Paper Hearts Book Club
Meets on the second Thursday of the month at the Paper Hearts Reading Room
420 East 21st Street Unit D
Each month we rotate reading a specific book or choose your own book on a specific theme! This is low stakes and meant to be a fun opportunity to discuss books with our community, not homework. We know life happens, so even if you aren’t able to finish a book for the month, feel free to come lend your voice and presence to our discussion!
Paper Hearts Bookstore is supporting this book club. If you order book club picks through Paper Hearts you receive 10% off. While it is not a requirement to buy from Paper Hearts, we do ask that you get book from library, borrow from a friend, or buy from other indie. By joining, you agree not to get the book from Amazon. When you buy a book from a local independent bookstore, you are directly supporting people in your community.
Check our calendar or our Facebook page to see what book/theme we are reading this month!
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Spooky Stories
Check our Facebook page for dates! Meets at 6:30PM at the Paper Hearts Reading Room
420 East 21st Street Unit D
A book club for all things that go bump in the night! We focus on the horror/thriller/mystery genre, and sweet treats, because a spoonful of sugar helps the gore go down.
Paper Hearts Bookstore is supporting this book club. If you order book club picks through Paper Hearts you receive 10% off. While it is not a requirement to buy from Paper Hearts, we do ask that you get book from library, borrow from a friend, or buy from other indie. By joining, you agree not to get the book from Amazon. When you buy a book from a local independent bookstore, you are directly supporting people in your community.
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Silent Book Club
Meets on the last Monday of every month at 6:30PM at Pettaway Coffee
406 East 21st Street
We at Paper Hearts Bookstore believe reading is best with friends. We don’t want to leave out our introvert friends so we are pleased to host Silent Book Club! Bring your own book and settle in for 45-ish minutes of reading. Then we have 15-ish minutes of sharing about what we are reading and what are looking forward to reading. Don’t feeling like socializing? It’s okay to skip out on the share time- no judgement here. Coffee available for purchase, but we do ask that you arrive early to get your drink ordered. We appreciate Pettaway Coffee opening their doors to us! Hope to see you there!
Even MORE Book Clubs
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End of Life Book Club
Hosted by Allison Clark of End of Life Arkansas
“I started a sentimental post about how much books mean to me and how reading about death has changed my life. I think that stuff is great, but I know you’re just here for deets on the book club. Here ya go!
Final Chapters plans to meet on the second Saturday of every other month at 2pm. If you can think of a better way to word that please let me know! We meet in the Reading Room attached to Paper Hearts Bookstore in Little Rock, AR.
Be sure to keep an eye on my Facebook profile. I create an event for each meeting and that’ll be the first place I post if something changes.
This is a very relaxed book club. Please feel free to join us even if you haven’t finished the book. We welcome anyone who is curious about the topic and wants to engage in meaningful discussion surrounding death and dying.
Please use your local library or Libby when you can. If the book is not available through your library, check out your local bookstore. If you like audiobooks I highly recommend Libro.fm. I’ve had excellent luck buying books secondhand from Pango or Thriftbooks, too. All that to say – please don’t buy books from Amazon. The way we spend our money matters. “
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Cook Book Club
For each meeting we choose a cookbook and have a little potluck where everyone brings a dish from that cookbook!
Keep an eye out here and on our Instagram for the next meet up!
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Silenced Stories
A Book Club for Banned & Challenged Books
Meets the first Wednesday of every month at 6:30 pm at @communitybakerylr!
Keep and eye on our Instagram for next month’s pick!
Ways to Support Us
Tell your friends!
And your enemies and your mom and your cat! We would love your help in getting the word out that we are new in town.
Visit our pop-ups!
We want to bring our books to you! We will be at farmers markets, shops, and events around town. We promise we will be excited to see you!
Find us a spot!
Everybody knows somebody, and you might know somebody who wants a bookstore pop-up! Help us get the inside scoop.
Shop our inventory!
If you’re in the market for a new great read, we have got you covered! Not sure what you want to read next? We can help you with that too.