Welcome to our Holiday 2025 season page. This season, we're still Betting on Black, and this time, we're pushing everything local. Supporting our small businesses is how we move the needle forward. Join us at ThirdSpace Reading Room for any of our events, buy a book as a gift from the Holiday Guide, and for our partners, we have a sponsorship that we'd like share with you.

The Little Radical Imagineer's Corner is a place where children can have their own ThirdSpace. Part of the reason why we've created this space is to help foster a love of reading in order to close the Black literacy gap. We can do it. Help support programming for this effort by clicking the link below.

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HOLIDAY EVENTS

11/6 @ 6:30pm - TSRR Book Club

Ft. Book of the month - Ring Shout.

Join us to chat about this historical fiction.

Location:

ThirdSpace Reading Room

11/7 & 12/18 @ 6:30 pm- READ WITH US

Gather with the readers! A comfortable environment to listen to some chill lo-fi, maybe grab a glass of wine to relax, and finally get through that novel that's been on your nightstand.

11/29 & 12/19 @ 11:30am - Intergenerational Lunch: Potluck I & II

Bring your best dish. No store bought items allowed. Just kidding, you can bring them over.

11/29 @ 1pm - Black Friday Market

Continuing on from the magical time we had last year, we're featuring local vendors from NEO with a suite of goods that will the bottom of anyone's Christmas tree.

11/29 @7pm - Game Night

Spades, Bidwhilst, Dominos, Uno, Connect Four, and many others to fill in your Thanksgiving schedule.

12/12 @ 7pm - Holiday Movie Night & Slumber Party

Ok, we're not really going to sleep in the bookstore, but we are showing a couple of popular Black Christmas movies.

The titles: TBD. Follow us on Instagram for the poll!

There will be eggnog, libations, and popcorn!

The Essentials

Definitive and necessary books from Black authors. Black-authored books that need to be a part of every reader's collection.

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Shop Coffee Table Books

Imagery on the cover. Valuable history on the inside.

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Shop Cookbooks

A little bit of history and recipes for your holiday table.

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Shop Children's Books

A young reader is a reader for life

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Shop Cleveland Based Books

Books about Cleveland because it's not where you're from, it's where you're at.

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Shop Social Justice

The intersections of activism takes place in between these pages

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Shop History

You want to know where you're going? Then you must know where you've been.

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Black Romance

Love is always the source.

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Shop our Bookshop.org page

If you want a book, but can't find it on our website, go to out Bookshop.org page and order it there. FYI, The Reading Room receives a small commission from each sale.

Shop our Bookshop

Don't Forget The Merch!!

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