The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks -- Shauna Robinson, Paperback

A sparkling bookish story about rules just begging to be broken. -- Abby Jimenez, New York Times bestselling author of Part of Your World and The Friend Zone

I, Maggie Banks, solemnly swear to uphold the rules of Cobblestone Books. If only, I, Maggie Banks, believed in following the rules.

When Maggie Banks arrives in Bell River to run her best friend's struggling bookstore, she expects to sell bestsellers to her small-town clientele. But running a bookstore in a town with a famously bookish history isn't easy. Bell River's literary society insists on keeping the bookstore stuck in the past, and Maggie is banned from selling anything written this century. So, when a series of mishaps suddenly tip the bookstore toward ruin, Maggie will have to get creative to keep the shop afloat.

And in Maggie's world, book rules are made to be broken.

To help save the store, Maggie starts an underground book club, running a series of events celebrating the books readers actually love. But keeping the club quiet, selling forbidden books, and dodging the literary society is nearly impossible. Especially when Maggie unearths a town secret that could upend everything.

Maggie will have to decide what's more important: the books that formed a small town's history, or the stories poised to change it all.

Author: Shauna Robinson
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.59w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9781728246444

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/15/2022 pg. 17
Library Journal 10/01/2022 pg. 130