In Case You Missed It

Here are some reminders on quick, nearly instant gifts you can send to your loved ones, while still shopping indie with Harvard Book Store. We are open daily between now and Christmas for in-store shopping; please review our safety guidelines before your visit, and be prepared to wait in a socially distanced line outside the store if we are at capacity when you arrive. We're open 11am–8pm this week, and closed on Friday.

Digital Audiobooks

Harvard Book Store offers audiobooks through Libro.fm! We also have audiobook memberships—the perfect last-minute gift. You pick the membership (1, 3, 6, or 12 months—with one book credit per month), and your gift recipients get to choose their own audiobooks. It will take you less than two minutes to purchase your gift, and the only choice you have to make is whether to give it to them via email or printable gift certificate!

For the person who…

Can never tell you what they want
Listens to podcasts
Loves books
Lives in your household or on the other side of the world
Is all about eco-friendly, local, and sustainable shopping

And when you choose a 12-month membership...

Help support Harvard Book Store in a big way this holiday season. When you choose a 12-month audiobook membership for $180—to gift (or keep)—Harvard Book Store will get $90, which will support our store, our staff, and our future. Offer valid until December 31st, 2020.

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Gift Codes by Email

You can send "gift cards" by email with our online-only harvard.com gift codes, which are emailed directly to the recipient! (If you'd like to purchase now but send the email later, put in your own email address; you can forward the gift code at a later date.) These are e-gift cards, for use only on harvard.com. Questions? Check out our Gift Code FAQ.

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Gift Memberships

Each month, Harvard Book Store offers Signed First Edition Club members a signed first printing of a newly published book, selected for both its literary merit and potential collectibility. Books are selected monthly—the length of your gift membership can be six months, one year, or indefinite—and can be shipped anywhere in the United States.

Launched in 2007, the "flagship" Signed First Edition Club has become an extraordinary way for both local Harvard Book Store customers and readers across the country to build a personal library of great books. The club has featured Pulitzer and Booker Prize–winners, National Book Award honorees and finalists, and wide-ranging titles by acclaimed, debut, and emerging authors. All are important, noteworthy books—loved by the readers on our staff. Check out the many prestigious past titles featured over the years here under "Past Selections."

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Gift Memberships

And we also have the Signed New Voices in Fiction Club, highlighting buzzworthy debut novels, four times a year. The most recent selection was Luster by Raven Leilani, which writer Carmen Maria Machado called "ridiculously good: gorgeous, dark, and funny, with sentences that'll wreck you" and noted, "I will follow this author anywhere she wants to take me."

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Kids Bookseller Zoom Chats

Introducing our new Kids Bookseller Zoom Chats, which come with an e-gift card for a kid or teen in your life, sent by email. The recipient will then schedule a virtual shopping appointment with one of our kids books experts in coming weeks.

How it works: Purchase a gift code below (available in $30, $50, and $75 values). We'll send the recipient an email with a quick questionnaire about their reading interests and take care of scheduling a video meetup with them in January or February. One of our kids booksellers will walk them through the kids section over Zoom and help pick out a stack of great books!

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Thank you for supporting Harvard Book Store! Your purchases support the future of this independent bookstore.