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Asbury Book Cooperative

Asbury Park, NJ

Asbury Book Cooperative (ABC) is an outgrowth of words!, which has been a staple of downtown Asbury Park since 2008. words! has become a center for local youth and community arts events including workshops, book clubs, readings, signings, parties, & story times for kids. We are excited to see this little-bookstore-that-could evolve into a cooperative, a place that is sustained by and for the Asbury community.

ABC Book Club Picks

See all the books that have been selected for ABC's Book Clubs. Find this month's selections or catch up on some...

The Make-Up Test by Jenny L. Howe
Built to Last by Erin Hahn
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Purnell
Diary of a Misfit by Casey Parks
Bookseller pick
Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble by Alexis Hall
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery by Rosalie Knecht
Partners in Crime by Alisha Rai
Punch Me Up To The Gods by Brian Broome
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Bookseller pick
The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince by Timothy Janovsky
Season of Love by Helena Greer
The Labors of Hercules by Agatha Christie
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
Just Like Magic by Sarah Hogle
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Bookseller pick
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match by Sally Thorne
Border and Rule by Harsha Walia
Bookseller pick
Something Wilder by Christina Lauren
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