Hours: 12-6 pm Weekdays & 10-4 Saturday
Phone: (662) 570-4247
Location: 423 Main Street, Columbus, MS
Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Awards Weekend Readings
Reading & book signing at Friendly City Books
Join us for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters’ Awards Weekend Readings! This annual book awards reading and signing at Friendly City Books features some of the 2025 winners, including Max Hipp, Robert K.D. Colby, Julian Randall, Allen R Wells, and Adam Shemper. This event is free and open to the public - we’ll see you there!
Audiobook Bestsellers
Check out the Top 100 audiobooks on the Libro.fm app.
New Releases on Audio
Listen to the hottest brand new audiobooks on Libro.fm.
Mississippi Authors
Listen to audiobooks by Jesmyn Ward, Michael Farris Smith, and more.
Nationwide Read 25 Silent Book Club at Friendly City Books!
Join us at Friendly City Books as we join the Nationwide Read 25 event with a silent book club gathering from 5:25 p.m. - 5:50pm, with socializing before and after!
We will have two giveaways during this event - a $50 bookshop.org gift certificate (proceeds benefit Friendly City Books!) and a $25 Gretchen Rubin Happiness Project gift certificate! Don’t miss out on your chance to mingle with book lovers and take home some prizes.
Book Events
Introducing the
Friendly City Books Community Connection
Learn more about our new nonprofit arm and earn a choose your own sale day at the bookstore when you donate to support our efforts.
Our Own Publications
Our newest book!
SAVOR: Poems for the Tongue
Edited by Brennan Breeland & Stan Galloway
We’re so excited to share with you our newest book from Friendly City Books! SAVOR: Poems for the Tongue is our much anticipated anthology of food poetry.
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Friendly City Books Podcast
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