Wonderful bookstore with staff who love poetry and literature and are warm. They also make interesting recommendations. The poetry bundle option (20% off!) is hilarious and fun. I bought a Polish Poetry Bundle yesterday. Great place to get lost browsing. So nice to have this resource locally.

Always helpful and they have what Im looking for! Great job!

First time in yesterday, killer store with great vibes, the ladies Claire and Becky helped a ton and made it a great and personal experience. Ill definitely be back

My go-to for finding new and exciting books. I am not personally good at finding new books and am not an avid reader as much as I once was, but they are changing that! Their recommendations were all specific and perfect. I’ve also had them do recommendations for other people. The staff are extremely kind and helpful.This place is the exact reason small local bookstores are essential. The online and big chain stores aren’t going to find you something specific to your tastes. Shop here!! They’re amazing!

Excellent little book store with a thoughtful collection and cool location. Highly recommend!

If youre into fiction, especially modern fiction, this is the place for you! The owner is super sweet and her store is clean and covid-friendly. My boyfriend is into non-fiction which is why I only gave it 4 stars, he didnt really have a selection to browse.

Needs updated hours. Tried to go but was closed.

A great neighborhood bookstore. I can spend hours in there just wandering and looking for books. The staff is super friendly and the selection is great. Im so glad I live around the corner from this place.

Attended an Austin Community College literary event here. It was small and personal experience for me. All the books there are from independent publishers you wont find your bestselling books here.

Im a little biased as I have a partner who works here, but Im gonna try to ignore that. Malvern is just... utterly unique and so important. I still probably go to Half Price for the bulk of the books I need from authors with 7/10 name recognition or higher. But what Malvern provides is the opposite: individualized recommendations from the most voracious readers (most of them writers, too) youve ever met. Its come in and well give you something new to try, in the vein of the kinds of video stores Quentin Tarantino bragged about working at. This place is the antidote to Amazon.Plus, if youre a poetry nerd, youll recognize it can often be difficult to find any whatsoever in chain stores or at Half Price, let alone the problem of developing a compass for what to try. No such problem here. Every time Ive gone in to scratch that itch, Stephanie or one of the other poets on staff has listened attentively to the kind of thing I feel like reading and then made a beeline to Snatch something off the shelves and shove it in my hands and that kind of experience is priceless.

Awesome book store! Its such a great, friendly shop with a decent selection for the size of the place. I love the feeling of walking in there...a total mix of people and dogs! I could spend hours browsing at books, and their gift shop which is so cute and eclectic! Books are fairly priced, and I rarey leave there without purchasing something.

A very unique and local bookstore that specializes in selling books by local as well as international authors. One of my favorite things about this store is that it places more emphasis on highlighting books that were not best sellers but still have quality content. Already loving the recommendation by the store staff.

Nice small independent bookstore. Sells prose & poetry from small publishers. Great events. Anything from unpublished authors reading their own work; Music events to writers from out of town reading from their published books.

Incredible selection of poetry! Not easy to come by. Many new releases available on the shelf. Warm welcoming readings and helpful staff.

This is a great little bookstore for those with eclectic tastes. They offer a wide variety of hard to find and lesser known books. The real value of this business are the employees . As they are all avid readers, they are excellent at providing book recommendations.

Fantastic indie bookstore with a stellar poetry collection. This place is carefully curated for readers who want to find that perfect gem of a book.

Incredible space for visiting writers and brilliant variety of works to choose from. I always find an intriguing read (or more than one!) Staff are welcoming, friendly, and helpful.

At Malvern Books we live however briefly the life of the mind, open to other peoples new ways of thinking and able to share our own, far from groupthink and boring big beige boxes of corporations. Places like Malvern and BookWoman and our hundreds of artist & maker & learning spaces keep us alive and growing in the brain, the only real estate we own outright.Everything with power to change the world starts in one human brain. Its hunger for new inputs to work with drives us, at our best - our most human. The more you give it to do the stronger it becomes, same as working out. You might go not because you write or quite get what is read or even agree with it, but because right now you do not.

This place is super spacious and I feel like the books they feature here are really intentional which is cool. Theres an open mic for local authors to share their work which is pretty neat as well.

Great place with friendly staff and fantastic recommendations. The store also has a unique selection and makes for a great place to discover new writers :)

Great selection. Lots of poetry not found in average bookstores. Nice staff. Thoughtful events!

This place is amazing! They’ve got books you won’t find anywhere else and a wide selection of periodicals to choose from too. I make it a point to stop in whenever I am in Austin.

Malvern books is a unique bookstore that lives and breathes poetry. What could be better?

Pros: definitively local bookstore; knowledgeable, pleasant staff. Cons: lack of big publishers limits selection; difficult parking access. Large noir section. Neat place to visit if youre up for a book adventure.

Hands down my favorite bookstore in Austin-just on selection alone. Indie publishers galore (poetry, essays, literature/short stories and graphic novels). The store itself is pretty chill and feels intimate. Staff has been helpful every time Ive visited. They hold events here too, poetry readings and book debuts. That kind of thing. And they have ice cream once a month at one of these, so Ive been told.Every book Ive purchased was recommended through their Instagram and has been a winner-I take it as a sign that they know their stuff.

You should seriously check this place out. Lots of poetry. Lots of cool events held here including readings by established writers and open mics. Go support this place. There arent a lot of book stores like this open any more.

Went to the I-scream social here March 2018, bought an amazing small-press book and generally had a great time. A good place with good books and good people.

Great bookstore for poetry and more! Ive found so many gems here

Best new books bookstore in Austin. The best selection of highbrow literature I’ve seen anywhere.

Lovely little Indie bookstore. The selection is not big, nothing like a big-box store, but who wants those anymore? For cold service, go to Amazon. For human friendly people, go to Malvern Books.

Best bookstore Ive been to that sells new books. If you like reading you should go here at least once (a week)

This is my favorite bookstore in the neighborhood. It is super chill and the people are super nice. They have a pretty large variety of books along with a little section for cards and nick nacks. They do a lot of author events too -we saw Junot Diaz in the past. This a great place to stop in if you are waiting for your movie next door or after dinner on the block. Also, dont forget about the book annex they have a couple of doors down.

This is one of the great small independent book stores in the U.S., specializing in the work of small presses that publish poetry, fiction, and translations of both. It is also a welcoming and comfortable place to just visit and sit around and read.

Although Malvern Books is a recent addition to the area, I have high hopes for this niche book store. They specialize in translated works in particular, and the staff are both friendly and extremely knowledgeable about many of the works that they carry. They have semi-regular poetry readings, and have specials focusing on specific genres from time to time.

Such a wonderful curated bookstore, that also holds space for readings from poete like Kaveh Akbar! Absolutely suggest going to explore new fiction and poetry

Malvern Books presents Austins society of literary lovers with an amazingly well-sourced collection of Texan-Poetry Anthologies paired with a carefully curated blend of fictional breadth which spans from the critically acclaimed to the cant-tell-whether-its-creativity-or-just-plain-crazy, from experimental futurists to canonical classics, and from the Kindle self-publishers to the Pulitzer-Prize winners.I wish, however, there were non-fiction sections dedicated literary theory, cultural criticism, memoirs or unorthodox histories.

Malvern specializes in contemporary titles from small presses. If you want something different, or challenging to read this is the place to go.

Employees were knowledgeable and very helpful. Selection of product is pretty good as well.

Wonderful store with eclectic titles and knowledgeable staff.

Great selection of graphic novels, and the bilingual editions of poetry!!!! A bronze lion is your host. And the dinosaur cast too.

Awesome independent bookstore-cutting edge, great staff, great space!

They helped me choose books that i related to. Super awesome service

Good books, helpful staff, in a real book store setting.

Best collection of small press lit ever, plus an awesome, knowledgeable staff.

Good place to look for book

The most interesting and well done bookstore I have ever visited with particular interest in the community.

Nice enough place, if you want the type of books they have. Poetry, philosophy, literature. Its a small selection, but they probably have books no one else has.Also is a venue.

Really cool selection of independent publishers. Youll find a curated variety of books that you wont see in big box stores.

Very helpful staff and a wide selection of esoteric books, with an excellent range of finds for poetry and fiction readers.

Cute book store with friendly staff

Snobbish and literary, just the way I like it.

Great place, frendly people and awesome books.

There are no books.

Well curated bookstore that specializes in small press, poetry books. Knowledgable staff.

Nice independent bookstore

Love the vibe here!

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Hallucinating bookstore of poetry, poetry, poetry!