Come browse our activity books for in the car, waiting for appointments, or for when you’re watching the big game. Grab activity books and games and art supplies for kids and find your quiet moment.

We have an amazing and cozy rental space now open. Perfect for small gatherings for meetings or showers or book clubs or workshops and much more. Email g@katonahbooks.com to discuss! * All regular seating continues to be open in the Speakeasy - this is a private space for rent.

Introducing our newest community gathering - our Monday Blues Break. Every Monday from 2-3pm we will be gathering in the new event space for crafting and writing and chatting and more. This week we will be crafting book paper roses in honor of Valentine’s Day. Pop in and make a little something for yourself or for a friend. $5 to cover supplies, no RSVP necessary. Just stop by and join in.

More Emily Lex workbooks back on the shelves including this new release, “Spring”, as well as a refresh of books we sold out of including books with illustrations of woodland animals, farms, camping, flowers, fruit, bouquets, animals and birds. The absolute best way to learn watercolor painting.

Grab a blind date with a book from our upstairs used book section. Enjoy some of our favorites, all gently used and priced for you to treat YOURSELF. Happy Galentine’s Day friends. Each book $14.

Gwen Krosnick — exuberant cellist, Columbia professor, local insatiable reader and tea drinker — returns to the Reading Room for a Saturday morning solo cello program on February 21st at 10am. The music will be a signature-Gwen mix of ancient gems and new revelations: Bach’s ferocious, tumultuous C minor Suite; twentieth-century works, beloved from her childhood, by Donald Martino and Milton Babbitt; and a poetic, puckish virtuoso piece by the magnificent, living-legend Afro-Cuban composer Tania León. This program is free and will be held in our separate upstairs event space.

Out on Tuesday! A totally accessible book about Menopause and the changes it brings to relationships and quality of life for women. The Bedroom Gap is like a chat with a friend, an older sister, a caring clinician. Come grab your copy and save the date for a chat with Dr Maria Sophocles on International Women’s Day, March 8th here at the Reading Room starting at 11am. We can’t wait to get into this one with you.

We’ve put together some fun to warm the coldest February days. A modern cello performance at 10am with Gwen Krosnick, Bark x Brine food truck from 11-4, a memoir author chat with Michael Neiman “Hello My Name is Sharkbait” about his experience hiking the Appalachian trail at 12pm, and our Non-Fiction book club at 2pm discussing “Blank Space”. Pop by for all or part of the day. We can’t wait!!!

Hearts for days. Chocolates and cards and cozy hats and books and plants and bath bombs and sweets and happy love for all. Whether you’re gifting to a partner or a friend, we have something that will bring a smile to any face.

Bring your love for the perfect date and try one of our delicious specials!

Our next Shakespeare book club will feature Macbeth. February 7th at 3:30pm. “In 1603, James VI of Scotland ascended the English throne, becoming James I of England. London was alive with an interest in all things Scottish, and Shakespeare turned to Scottish history for material. He found a spectacle of violence and stories of traitors advised by witches and wizards, echoing James’s belief in a connection between treason and witchcraft.

Join Spenser for the next Classics book club “Mumbo Jumbo” on February 28th at 2pm.

“It is the 1920s in New York City and an epidemic known as Jes Grew is sweeping the nation—a dancing plague, irresistible, joyful, and undeniably Black. Naturally, the powers-that-be are having none of it. A repressive conspiracy is operating in the shadows, and it is dead set on squelching Jes Grew and its Carriers—Black artists and musicians—by any means necessary.

You asked…and we are ready for it. Join us to discuss “Heated Rivalry” February 22 at 12pm. Already read it or watched? Bonus points if you back and read the first in the series, “Game Changer.”

Nothing interferes with pro hockey star Shane Hollander's game.

Join me for a discussion of “Sky Full of Elephants” on March 8th at 2pm. In a world without white people, what does it mean to be Black?

One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served his time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn’t even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old left behind by her white mother and step-family.

Daniel has agreed to brave the cold and bring his amazing food truck back to the Reading Room on February 21st for a lunch special!!! Save the date and your appetite to grab some delish BBQ to melt the winter blues away.

Join us for a book chat with our next Memoir Author, Michael Nieman. February 21st at 12pm. “Explore Michael’s work, inspired by passion for hiking and backpacking. Hello My Name is Sharkbait tells the hilariously true story of grit from Georgia to Maine along the Appalachian trail. Michael is an avid backpacker who turned a 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail hike into a story worth sharing. Join

My absolute favorite stack of middle grade kids transitioning into young adult books. Stories are good and full of character and intelligent stories but still at an appropriate age level regarding romance and violence topics.

Contact me to check out our new rental space. $150/hour week days, $250/hour on weekends and evenings. Fully adjustable to be a workshop space, a lecture or author talk, a meeting space, conversation space, coffee meet up, or lounge. Email me to discuss your event g@katonahbooks.com.

Refill from our absolute favorite sticker company Juju and Moxy. They are just perfection. Come grab your favorite and stick to your phone, computer, water bottle, or journal!

Our special “speakeasy” (named such because no one can ever find it) upstairs is available for daily seating. Work a bit, meet up with a friend, have a warm drink and a coffee. Chill out in the most peaceful place in town.