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Who is Book Haven Books?

We are a Latina-owned online and pop up bookstore based in NJ, founded in 2022. Our mission is to create an inclusive literary space that highlights the diversity of the world around us.

We believe representation is important and that everyone deserves to see themselves represented in the stories they read.

We believe that reading builds empathy and that by reading books about cultures and experiences outside of our own, we can expand our outlook and further connect with our communities.

We celebrate diversity by prioritizing books written BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and authors from other underrepresented backgrounds.

How can you support our mission?
✨️Shop our online bookstore.
✨️Share our page with a friend.
✨️Meet us at one of our Pop Up Events.
✨️Listen to audiobooks? You can support our bookstore on Librofm
✨️ Share this post!

📚 Visit BookHavenBooks.com to learn more about us and browse our virtual shelves. 📚 by @bookhavenbooks

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Books that FLEW off the shelves at our Grown Up Book Fair! 📚✨

One of my favorite things about these events is seeing what catches your eye. No two book fairs are ever quite the same, and I love seeing the different stories that find their way into your hands and eventually onto your bookshelves.

Swipe through to see the titles that found new homes at our most recent Grown Up Book Fair!

#bookhavenbooks #onlinebookstore #popularbooks #diversebooks #popupbookshop

Online bookstore, popup bookstore, indie bookstores, Latina owned bookstore, diverse authors

Something followed us home. It crawled in with our prayers, slipped into our beds, watched from mirrors, waited in water, and learned our names. In these stories, horror does not announce itself. It possesses, feeds, whispers, and waits.

Gathering chilling work from some of today’s most acclaimed Latiné voices, this anthology moves through haunted households, brutal landscapes, sacred spaces turned dangerous, and bodies claimed by forces both ancient and intimate. The dead murmur behind locked doors. Bones rebuild themselves under merciless suns. Love becomes a doorway for demonic hunger. Prayers summon answers that arrive too late…or too fully. Blood, devotion, and memory intertwine as the past presses back with teeth.

Something Followed Us Home is a landmark anthology of Latiné horror. These stories remind us that the past is never gone, the dead are never silent, and the places we come from will always find their way back to us.

#horror #shortstoriescollection

There’s nothing wrong with Aurora.

A successful art lawyer, she has returned to Mexico to celebrate a recent campaign for the repatriation of stolen artifacts―in particular a mysterious statue of an Aztec god, The Flayed One.

But Mexico City isn’t as she remembered. Nothing is. Elements of her past hint at darkness and power, and reality begins to crack and warp the streets.

There’s nothing wrong with Aurora.

As Aurora’s sanity unravels, she must pry apart her family’s secrets and accept the simplest of truths: The Flayed One cannot stay buried.

#horrorbooks #latinxauthors

When Papi Ramon, the patriarch of the wealthy Abreu family dies by @bookhavenbooks

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📚 October 13, 2026 - New Releases! 📚
Swipe 👉🏻 through for a short description of each new release!

✨ You can shop them all now at bookhavenbooks.com ✨

#bookhavenbooks #bookreleases #newbookreleases #newreleasetuesday #onlinebookstore

📖 Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones

A ragtag group of activists plan a mission to repatriate the bones of a Blackfeet boy who was sent to the infamous Carlisle Indian Industrial School in author Stephen Graham Jones’s return to the Blackfeet reservation of his award-winning New York Times bestsellers The Only Good Indians and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.

#horror #indigenousauthors #indigenousbooks

📖 Don’t Leave Her Alone by Desirée De Fez

An alternative Nightbitch set in Barcelona for fans of Fever Dream, following three mothers who are linked by the tentacles that live inside of them.

#horror #translatedfiction #latinxauthors

📖 It Looks Like You in the Dark by Mathilda Zeller

Tapeesa is newly out of high school and working in a fish processing plant in the Inupiat village, Chukchi, where she’s lived her whole life. Maybe that’s why people tend to assume she isn’t that bright―or maybe her mama is right and she does have bad blood. Either way, she knows the legend, and she knows the history. Her Ahna told her that the hungry creature―the kushtuka―appears to us in the form of someone we love. It will try to get us to follow it. Follow it where? Those who have gone no longer have throats to tell us.

#horror #indigenousauthors #indigenousliterature

📖 Another Name for Red by Amber Blaeser-Wardzala

The debut novel by one of the bestselling Never Whistle at Night’s most memorable contributors, in which, after a young Anishinaabe woman vanishes, her sister tries to pick up the pieces of her broken family, even as her investigations put her at risk of suffering a similar fate.

#mystery #indigenousauthors #indigenousliterature

📖 What the Forest Devours by Elaine Vilar Madruga

In this award-winning horror novel from Latin America, a community of women and children—and one man—fight for survival in a harsh and terrifying Cuban rainforest where the gods require appeasement through brutal sacrifice.

#litera by @bookhavenbooks

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5 days ago

📚 Grown-Up Book Fair at Bergen Hall 📚

Thank you to everyone who came out on 9/29 and made our latest Grown-Up Book Fair so special. 🫶🏼

Seeing you browse the shelves, connect with fellow readers, share recommendations, and spend the evening in community is what it’s all about. We’re so grateful to everyone who continues to show up and make space for Book Haven Books.

A big thank you to @bergen_hall for always making us feel so welcome and taking such good care of our community. The food, the drinks, the hospitality! And seriously, if you haven’t tried their Daytona wings, what are you doing? 🍗

This was our last Grown-Up Book Fair planned for the year, and we couldn’t have asked for a better night to wrap things up.

Now we want to hear from you! When do you want to see the Grown-Up Book Fair return? 👀

#bookhavenbooks #popupbookstore #grownupbookfair #bookevents #hudsoncountynj by @bookhavenbooks

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One week away!

Mark your calendars, October 17th! for The community pop-up market! 🛍️☕️

Come through for specialty coffee, drinks, and delicious food—stay to shop with 5+ amazing local vendors. Enjoy live portrait painting,local art work and live DJs setting the vibes @hctr.deleon 🎶

This is a family-friendly event, and we’re inviting everyone to show up, connect, explore our beautiful town and celebrate what the community looks like in West New York, NJ. Spread the word around town !
@thingznthangz @kenny.velez_art @slaybymilashop @viragovalour @joolia.draws @atabey_candle_co @bookhavenbooks

📅 October 17th 10AM-3PM
📍@malpacafe : 158 61st West New York, NJ

See you there! 🫶🏼 by @bookhavenbooks

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SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME is an instant USA Today Bestseller AND a Gold Medal Winner of the International Latino Book Awards! 🎉🏆

Congratulations to @cynthiapelayoauthor and all the incredible authors whose stories make up this collection:

@leopoldoleopoldo @alexsegurajr @anandalima @brendalatorrewrites @zoraidasolo @anndavilacardinal @lilliamr @carolinaflorezauthor @marianaenriquez1973 @monaojedaf @agustinabazterrica @danieljose1 @xochitltheg @isabelcanas_ @hello.samanito @dianawallachauthor ❤️

Last week, I had the privilege of attending the launch of SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME at The Twisted Spine in Brooklyn, and it was such a special experience. Hearing Cynthia Pelayo, Alex Segura, Leopold Goût, and Ananda Lima talk about their creative processes, the inspiration behind their stories, and the importance of Latine voices in literature was a reminder of why this work matters so much.

Our stories matter. Our voices matter. And seeing this collection receive the recognition it deserves makes me so proud.

As a Latina bookseller who is passionate about amplifying Latine voices, moments like this mean everything. And I hope we continue to see more of our stories celebrated, not just during Latine Heritage Month, but all year long.

And because I'd be a terrible bookseller if I didn't tell you, we have copies available in BOTH English and Spanish, ready to ship.

Head to our website to grab your copy. It's the perfect October read! 👻 by @bookhavenbooks

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📚 October 6, 2026 - New Releases! 📚
Swipe 👉🏻 through for a short description for each new release!

✨ You can shop them all now at bookhavenbooks.com ✨

#bookhavenbooks #onlinebookstore #popupbookshop #indiebookstores #latinaowned

📖 Bruja’s Nest by Brenda LaTorre
The Love Witch meets Monstrilio in Bruja’s Nest, where a young woman’s abuse history and ambition erupt into body horror, class war, and monstrous motherhood.

#horror

📖 Hear The Dead by Ann Davila Cardinal
From award-winning author Ann Dávila Cardinal comes an edgy, genre-bending thriller following a retired photographer who begins to hear the murders of women she knew in her punk youth, forcing her to reckon with the past she’s desperate to forget.

#thriller #mystery #mysteryanddetective

📖 Night of a Thousand Hells by Intan Paramaditha
Set across Indonesia, the United States, and Australia, the novel explores class divides, sisterhood, migration, shame, abandonment, and the politics of care—all through a ghostly, atmospheric lens that draws on Asian folktales and occult traditions

#horror #worldlit #southeastasia

📖 Find Me Where It Ends by Cassandra Khaw
A young woman wakes up to find the black hound of Death at her front door in this hauntingly beautiful tale.

#horror #supernaturalbooks

📖 What Feeds Below by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne
The darkness isn’t empty. It’s hungry.

At the edge of the City of the Void, a massive chasm extends miles into the earth, its treacherous terrain overrun with vicious monsters and carnivorous plants. For orphaned best friends Petra and Jade, guiding treasure-seeking tourists down into the Void is the only way to earn enough to pull themselves up out of the slums for good.

#yafiction #yahorror

📖 Strange Lights by Mira González
Like Scooby Doo meets The X Files for readers of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Strange Lights is a joyride in a sentient Winnebago with a quirky cast of cryptids.

#sciencefiction

📖 The Lost Guardian by Natalia Hernandez
With a grandfather’s dying words, Santiago learns that his bedtime stories weren’t myths. They were warnings.

Before he knows it, Santiago Rios is leaving Los Angeles for Lima, Peru. Armed with a myst by @bookhavenbooks

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12 days ago

📚 Quiet Reading Club at @roastandcream !

It was such a great time at our second Quiet Reading Club of September and officially closing out summer.

We can’t wait to see you at the next one! We have ONE spot left for our October 22nd meet up, at Marimba Cafe in Hackensack, NJ!

#bookhavenbooks #quietreadingclub #popupbookstore #onlinebookstore #hudsoncountynj by @bookhavenbooks

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📚 Quiet Reading Club – October Meetup at Marimba Café 📚

Join us for our April Quiet Reading Club at @marimba.cafe on Tuesday, October 20th from 6:30–8:30 PM.

Quiet Reading Club is simple: bring whatever you’re currently reading and enjoy an hour of quiet reading in community. No assigned book, no pressure, just time to slow down together.

Here’s the vibe:
📚 Bring your current read or something from your TBR
☕ Enjoy coffee, jugo fresca, or a treat from Marimba Café
🕯️ Unwind and read quietly in community
🗨️ Optional mingling before and after reading

Evening flow:
6:30–7:00 PM – Arrive, order, and get settled
7:00–8:00 PM – Quiet Reading Hour
8:00–8:30 PM – Group photo + social time

📍 @marimba.cafe 10 Banta Place, Hackensack, NJ
📅 Tuesday, October 20th
⏰ 6:30–8:30 PM
📚 BYO Book

Whether you’re diving into a novel or catching up on your TBR, Quiet Reading Club is your invitation to slow down and read in good company.

Quiet Reading Club is hosted by Book Haven Books, an independent bookstore celebrating diverse stories and creating spaces for readers to connect in community. 📚✨

🎟️ Free to attend. Space is limited. RSVP via the link in our bio.

#BookHavenBooks #QuietReadingClub #MarimbaCafe by @bookhavenbooks

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17 days ago

📚 September 29, 2026 - New Releases! 📚
Swipe 👉🏻 through for a short description for each new release!

✨ You can shop them all now at bookhavenbooks.com ✨

#bookhavenbooks #onlinebookstore #popupbookshop #readdiversebooks #indiebookstores

📖 Something Followed Us Home by Cynthia Pelayo
Dive into the chilling depths of Latiné horror with Something Followed Us Home, edited by Bram Stoker Award–winner Cynthia Pelayo, a groundbreaking anthology where each story reimagines immigration, colonization, faith, and folklore as the fears we inherit and carry across borders and generations.

#horrorbooks #anthology

Lo Que Nos Siguió A Casa by Cynthia Pelayo
Sumérgete en las espeluznantes profundidades del terror latino con Lo que nos siguió a casa, editada por la ganadora del Premio Bram Stoker Cynthia Pelayo. Una antología revolucionaria en la que participan Agustina Bazterrica, Isabel Cañas, Mariana Enríquez, Zoraida Córdova y más, donde cada historia viste la inmigración, la colonización, la fe y el folklore, de miedos que heredamos y que nos acompañan a través de las fronteras y las generaciones.

#horrorbooks #anthology #librosdeterror #antologia

📖 The Man of Wind and Moss by Alex Gonzalez
The Blair Witch Project meets Cabin in the Woods by way of Grady Hendrix in this gruesome, mythology-inspired storm of witchcraft, demon curses, and millennial-age angst all wrapped in a folk horror tale about six college friends who go on a weekend getaway in the woods—and the supernatural deals they make to survive.

#horrorbooks #gothicbooks #gothichorror

📖 The Unhaunting by Micaiah Johnson
At the end of the Civil War, a daughter of the Confederacy made what she thought was an innocent wish: to build a house where nothing bad could happen. But peace came at a price, and one hundred and seventy years later Shantell and her friends are about to discover where all that darkness ended up.

#horrorbooks #gothicbooks #gothichorrow

📖 The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philyaw
The wife of a popular and powerful megachurch pastor upends her charmed “rags-to-Rolex” life when her secret past comes roaring into the spotlight—in this “funny and juicy and sexy by @bookhavenbooks

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**UPDATE: Book Haven Books joins us THIS Sunday, October 4 (remember the nor'easter last week?!) for BONUS Book Social Brunch!

This month, we’re bringing books to brunch with @zee_reads_things and @bookhavenbooks! And yes, we have mimosas AND coffee!

Book Social: Brunch Edition
Sunday, September 27 | 12-3PM

#coffeeandbooks #brunch #unioncountynj #bookish by @bookhavenbooks

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23 days ago

📖 Check out what Quiet Reading Club was reading last week at Gemini!

Such great reads and you can shop some of them at bookhavenbooks.com (or linked through this post!) 📚

Can’t wait to see what everyone is reading tonight at Roast and C.R.E.A.M. 🫶🏼

#bookhavenbooks #onlinebookstore #popupbookstore #bookclubreads #readingclub by @bookhavenbooks

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