Indie Bookstore Day Spirit Week celebrated Silly Sock Day on Monday and Plaid Tuesday. Among the indies participating:
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Silly Sock Day
The Next Chapter Bookstore, Hermiston, Ore.: "Happy Silly Sock Day. We are rocking our socks from Sock It To Me--we know how much you all love them, too! How are you celebrating today? Post your silly socks to your stories and tag us @thenextchapterhermiston and #TNCSpiritWeek so we can share them to our stories."
Sugarfoot Books, San Anselmo, Calif.: "Leading up to Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday we have Spirit Week! Today is Silly Sock Day, please enjoy our silly socks!"
Main Street Books, St. Charles, Mo.: "Happy Indie Bookstore Spirit Week! Monday is Crazy Sock Day, and our booksellers really stepped up on this one! (STEPPED up? Get it? Because we are on a step, and this is about socks… yeah, you get it.)
Itinerant Literate Books, North Charleston, S.C.: "Counting down the days to IBD with Bookseller Spirit Week! Monday is Silly Sock Day, but we also just call it a fashion statement. Plus, we think it pairs nicely with our new store shirts, now available in lovely lavender (Olivia approved!)."
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| At Books & Books at the Studios, Key West, Fla.: (l.-r.) bookseller Leslie, store founder Judy Blume, store manager Emily, bookseller Joey, assistant store manager Sara. | |
Plaid Tuesday
The Twig Book Shop, San Antonio, Tex.: "Clad in plaid for Indie Bookstore Spirit Week! Join us on Saturday, 25th April for #indiebookstoreday!"
bbgb books, Richmond, Va.: "leading up to indie bookstore day on saturday is indie bookstore spirit week! today is plaid day! everything we are holding will be available on indie bookstore day!"
Main Street Books, Davidson, N.C.: "Plaid Tuesday marks Day 2 of Indie Bookstore Day Spirit Week! Only four sleeps until our party with special guest Alicia D. Williams, author of Nani and the Lion.
Red Balloon Bookshop, St. Paul, Minn.: "Plaid Day for #ibdspiritweek2026 Booksellers + Plaid = a match made in heaven."
Chaucer's Books, Santa Barbara, Calif.: "A few of the crew in their best plaids for Plaid Day (go with it) and #BookstoreSpiritWeek! (Brandy would like to remind everyone it is also Lesbian Visibility Week. So Plaid Day works there, too.)"
Lovestruck Books & Cafe, Cambridge, Mass.: "If Lovestruck Books & Cafe was a sitcom. Today's Spirit Week theme: PLAID. All leading up to Indie Bookstore Day with @americanbooksellers on 4/25!"
Content Bookstore, Northfield, Minn.: "Day 2 of #BookstoreSpiritWeek: Plaid Tuesday, or as we call it at Content, Dress Like David Day. David: Inventory Manager, Fearless Leader, Style Icon, Reacher of Things on High Shelves. Never without a plaid shirt or a cold can of Pepsi Zero. We love you."