I love a good library book sale! I don’t read fiction, and coffee table books are very expensive, so I typically score at library book sales with a lot of pretty books, oversized books, art and architecture books. Sometimes I just find funky titles that I can display front facing on my bookshelves.
My most memorable library book sale story (how many people even have memorable library book sale stories?) was one at the Beaman Memorial Library in West Boylston public about a decade ago. There were a lot of nice gardening books, and one that I thought was cute where it taught you how to identify leaves, and at the end of the book, there were several pages where you could put your own leaves in and potentially identify them by name based on what you learned in the book.
This book belonged to someone named Lyman, according to the inscription in the front of the book. I don’t even remember who I was at that library book sale with, but we could not stop cracking up laughing. Apparently, Lyman had possibly innocently plucked a leaf from one of his parents’ plants. I didn’t really need the book, but pricing at library book sales is always quite modest and I couldn’t resist.
I put together a list of library books sales in Central Massachusetts below. Please let me know of any other sales that you know of!
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Ashburnham
Pop-up Book Sale
Saturday, June 21 from 10AM – 1:30PM
Facebook Event Page
Concord
Annual Book Sale 2025
Saturday, June 14, 2025
10AM – 4PM
Fitchburg
Friends of Fitchburg Library Used Book Sale
Thursday, June 26 from 4PM-7PM
Friday, June 27 from 11AM-5PM
Saturday, June 28 from 10:30AM – 2PM
Lancaster
Youth Book Sale
Friday, June 20 from 12PM – 4PM
Facebook Event Page
Leominster
Friends of the Library Book Sale
Saturday, June 7 from 10AM – 1PM
Saturday, June 21 from 10AM -1PM
Lunenburg
Book and Bake Sale
Friday, June 6 from 2PM – 6PM
Saturday, June 7 from 9 AM – 2PM
Rutland
Book Sale
Friday, June 27 from 10AM – 2PM
Westminster
Summer Reading Kick-Off and Friends Book Sale
Saturday, June 14 from 10AM – 1PM
