Rec Room Books

Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs could’ve invented the true crime genre decades before Truman Capote claimed all the credit with In Cold Blood. Fast, ruthless, and cynical, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, co-written by the Beat legends in 1945, yet unpublished until 2008, is one of our favorite novels by either author 🦛📚❤️

Loitering with a mischievous grin at the intersection of Blazing Saddles and anything Louis L’Amour, you’ll find God’s Country. Percival Everett’s 1994 wild Western is silly and razor sharp—one of our favorite novels from a living national treasure 📚

Join us—Thursday—7pm!

Frieda Copperfield and Christina Goering are not concerned with the rules in your patriarchal playbook. Their epic journeys of self-discovery, chronicled in Jane Bowles’s 1943 feminist literary masterpiece Two Serious Ladies, are positively liberating.

An animal rights activist, of sorts, makes life difficult, impossible even, for some hunters that aren’t dog lovers in Olga Tokarczuk’s 2009 murder puzzle Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. Dark mystery, spirited vigilance, and an often unreliable narrator await you 🙂🖤📚🦴

magical 🪄

Visiting Athens for the first time and found this awesome cute little bookstore @recroombooks ! 📚

Florida, man. Colson Whitehead’s pulverizing 2020 exposé Nickel Boys is one more reason to hate the state, and specifically the 111 years of corruption, abuse and juvenile injustice at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.

Join us this Sunday for a very special engagement. There will be snacks 🙂

Hi friends! Missed out on the performance the beginning of this month? Have questions about the show or want to hear it at its pages? Well, this upcoming Sunday morning at @recroombooks will be a short staged reading and Q&A of Yesterday is Dead! Coffee and donuts will be provided, and there will even be an exciting raffle to win some books. Start your morning right with some q***r stories in downtown Athens - it's essential to your breakfast! ☀️

Flannery O’Connor wrote grim Southern fiction her mother didn’t particularly enjoy reading. In 1952 she released the novel Wise Blood and introduced the world to Hazel Motes, one of literature’s better known nihilistic evangelicals 📚❤️⛪️