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📚 Quiet Reading Club at ROAST & C.R.E.A.M. !

It was such a great time at our second Quiet Reading Club of September and officially closing out summer.

We can’t wait to see you at the next one! We have ONE spot left for our October 22nd meet up, at Marimba Cafe in Hackensack, NJ!

📚 Quiet Reading Club – October Meetup at Marimba Café 📚

Join us for our April Quiet Reading Club at Marimba Cafe on Tuesday, October 20th from 6:30–8:30 PM.

Quiet Reading Club is simple: bring whatever you’re currently reading and enjoy an hour of quiet reading in community. No assigned book, no pressure, just time to slow down together.

Here’s the vibe:
📚 Bring your current read or something from your TBR
☕ Enjoy coffee, jugo fresca, or a treat from Marimba Café
🕯️ Unwind and read quietly in community
🗨️ Optional mingling before and after reading

Evening flow:
6:30–7:00 PM – Arrive, order, and get settled
7:00–8:00 PM – Quiet Reading Hour
8:00–8:30 PM – Group photo + social time

📍 Marimba Cafe 10 Banta Place, Hackensack, NJ
📅 Tuesday, October 20th
⏰ 6:30–8:30 PM
📚 BYO Book

Whether you’re diving into a novel or catching up on your TBR, Quiet Reading Club is your invitation to slow down and read in good company.

Quiet Reading Club is hosted by Book Haven Books, an independent bookstore celebrating diverse stories and creating spaces for readers to connect in community. 📚✨

🎟️ Free to attend. Space is limited. RSVP via the link in our bio.

📚 September 29, 2026 - New Releases! 📚
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✨ You can shop them all now at bookhavenbooks.com ✨

📖 Something Followed Us Home by Cynthia Pelayo
Dive into the chilling depths of Latiné horror with Something Followed Us Home, edited by Bram Stoker Award–winner Cynthia Pelayo, a groundbreaking anthology where each story reimagines immigration, colonization, faith, and folklore as the fears we inherit and carry across borders and generations.



Lo Que Nos Siguió A Casa by Cynthia Pelayo
Sumérgete en las espeluznantes profundidades del terror latino con Lo que nos siguió a casa, editada por la ganadora del Premio Bram Stoker Cynthia Pelayo. Una antología revolucionaria en la que participan Agustina Bazterrica, Isabel Cañas, Mariana Enríquez, Zoraida Córdova y más, donde cada historia viste la inmigración, la colonización, la fe y el folklore, de miedos que heredamos y que nos acompañan a través de las fronteras y las generaciones.



📖 The Man of Wind and Moss by Alex Gonzalez
The Blair Witch Project meets Cabin in the Woods by way of Grady Hendrix in this gruesome, mythology-inspired storm of witchcraft, demon curses, and millennial-age angst all wrapped in a folk horror tale about six college friends who go on a weekend getaway in the woods—and the supernatural deals they make to survive.



📖 The Unhaunting by Micaiah Johnson
At the end of the Civil War, a daughter of the Confederacy made what she thought was an innocent wish: to build a house where nothing bad could happen. But peace came at a price, and one hundred and seventy years later Shantell and her friends are about to discover where all that darkness ended up.



📖 The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philyaw
The wife of a popular and powerful megachurch pastor upends her charmed “rags-to-Rolex” life when her secret past comes roaring into the spotlight—in this “funny and juicy and sexy and delicious peek behind the pulpit” (Samantha Irby) from the acclaimed and be

📖 Check out what Quiet Reading Club was reading last week at Gemini!

Such great reads and you can shop some of them at bookhavenbooks.com (or linked through this post!) 📚

Can’t wait to see what everyone is reading tonight at Roast and C.R.E.A.M. 🫶🏼

September 22, 2026 - New Releases! 📚
Swipe 👉🏻 through for a short description of each new release!

✨ You can shop them all now at bookhavenbooks.com ✨

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📖 Mazywood by Tananarive Due
S. A. Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed meets Percival Everett’s Erasure in this literary thriller following the grandson of a famous Black actress from the 1920s to the 1940s, now a filmmaker himself, who returns to his grandmother’s cabin retreat in the California mountains only to encounter the legacy of her rage born in Old Hollywood.



📖 Our Cut of Salt by Deena Helm
In this lyrical debut, three generations of Palestinian women must put the haunting of their ancestral home to rest, before the secrets of the past drown them all. Our Cut of Salt is a powerful and intimate look at what it means to make a home, to lose it, and to return, only to find it irrevocably changed.



📖 Isn’t He Romantic by Adib Khorram
To deter his ex, a lovelorn cellist starts a fake relationship with his one-night stand in this steamy, swoony fake dating romance.

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📖 Witch Daughter by Tanaz Bhathena
In her adult debut, award-winning author Tanaz Bhathena expertly weaves a tale of love and loss in ancient Persia with her take on the timeless tragedy of Tahmineh, a temptress, a witch, a victim, or, perhaps, a woman trying her hardest to protect her loved ones.



📖 Buzzard by Inez Ray
In 2086, corporations are monitoring fertility. Abortion is illegal. And the last woman alive who can perform the procedure is in hiding.

Buzzard is a ferocious dystopian debut that traces the possible trajectory of our current political and technological reality—and the power of our deepest human bonds.



📖 Female Life on Planet Earth by Laleh Khadivi
The weird thing is, I’m more interested in my mother now she’s dead.

From an award-winning author comes a stunning, darkly funny novel about a daughter discovering her mother’s secret past.



📖 The W: A His

Grown-Up Book Fair is back at Bergen Hall! 📚🍻

Just in time to build that fall TBR. 🍂📚

📅 Tuesday, September 29, 2026
⏰ 6:30–9:30pm
📍 bergen_hall | 58 Maple St., Jersey City

Come solo or bring a friend and spend the evening browsing a thoughtfully curated selection of books, bookish goodies, good food + drinks, and a room full of fellow book lovers.

Come for the books. Stay for the vibes.

See you there! RSVP via link in bio to tell us your coming. 🫶🏼

📚 September 8, 2026 - New Releases! 📚
Swipe 👉🏻 through for a short description for each new release!

✨ You can shop them all now at bookhavenbooks.com ✨



📖 Bodega Stories by Amaris Castillo

A bodega is much more than a neighborhood grocery store—it’s a lifeline to community and culture. In Bodega Stories, Amaris Castillo takes readers inside Orlando Latin Market, a bodega owned and operated by her parents in St. Petersburg, Florida, to reveal a thriving local hub that bridges generations, languages, and traditions.



📖 Bury Your Dead by Ana Paula Maia, translated by Padma Viswanathan

Edgar Wilson has a gruesome job, one he is entirely unsentimental about―he cleans up roadkill in rural Brazil. But one day vultures are circling in the woods, and he can’t not go see what they’re gathering for.



📖 Taipei Story by R F Kuang

A wryly humorous and profoundly moving coming-of-age novel that grapples with grief, language, and culture shock—all set against the backdrop of an unforgettable summer in Taipei.



📖 Queenie Is Working On It by Candice Carty-Williams

Queenie feels as though time is running out in all the parts in her life. And she’s going to do what she thinks is best to get back on track, no matter how inadvisable.

Bigger. Not better. Older. Not wiser. The beloved and flawed Queenie Jenkins is scared, she is frustrated, she is confused…but…she is working on it.



📖 Lords of Serendipity by Randy Boyagoda

This is the 21st-century global campus novel, a story about two teenage girls from opposite sides of the world with the same dream: four years in a quadrangle-shaped paradise that offers lots of super amazing courses and super amazing protests.



📖 The Chinese Lady by Bo Wang

Combining archival research and brilliantly imaginative storytelling, Bo Wang masterfully fills in history’s gaps to weave a powerful narrative of survival in the face of hardship, tragedy, and betrayal.



📖 Black Arts by Megan Giddings

Over the course

Quiet Reading Club is Headed Back to Roast & C.R.E.A.M. in Union City 📚☕️

We’re trying something new this September and testing out TWO Quiet Reading Club meetups in one month! And for our second gathering, we’re heading back to one of our favorite neighborhood spots, ROAST & C.R.E.A.M. 🫶🏼

Join us on Thursday, September 24th from 6:30–8:30 PM for an evening of good books, good food, and a little time to slow down together.

Quiet Reading Club is simple: bring whatever you’re currently reading and enjoy an hour of quiet reading in community. No assigned book, no pressure, just time to read in good company.

Here’s the vibe:
📚 Bring your current read or something new
☕️ Order food, drinks, or coffee from Roast & C.R.E.A.M.
🕯️ Unwind and read quietly in community
🗨️ Optional mingling before and after reading

Evening flow:
6:30–7:00 PM – Arrive, order food, get cozy
7:00–8:00 PM – Quiet Reading Hour
8:00–8:30 PM – Group photo + social time

📍 ROAST & C.R.E.A.M. 1620 Bergenline Avenue
Union City, NJ
📅 Thursday, September 24th
⏰ 6:30–8:30 PM
📚 BYO Book
🍽️ Food & drinks available for purchase

Whether you’re making your way through your TBR, starting a new book, or just looking for an excuse to put your phone down for an hour, come read with us. 📚

🎟️ Free to attend. Space is limited. RSVP via the link in our bio.

📚 THE PREORDER SALE IS BACK! 📚

Our fan-favorite PREORDER sale is back! 🎉

Now through September 13th, save 20% on ALL preorders with code PREORDER20 at checkout.

And preordering is more than just getting your book early. Every preorder sends a clear message to publishers: there is demand for this author’s work. That support is especially important for BIPOC, q***r, and debut authors, whose books deserve to be seen, supported, and given a chance to thrive. ❤️📚

So go ahead, add that preorder to your TBR. We’ll see you at checkout. 👀

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