Booklovers from all over joined Beach Books in Seaside, OR to celebrate their 20th Anniversary November 1, 2025.
Alexa and Karen at the celebration November 1, 2025
“It was so much better than we even hoped. Music was great, the food and drinks were terrific, and the lines at the checkout were long. We had a grand time.”
—Karen Emmerling, owner of Beach Books, Seaside, OR
“It was a fantastic weekend filled with PNBA reps, authors and friends to the bookstore. We had a couple hundred people fill the store throughout the night! It really was incredible and full of so much book love. There was a line around the cash wrap the entire party. People loved our special merch we made for the anniversary. Jane Mount (YES THAT ONE) made us stacks of our number one book sold from each year we’ve been open and Kevin Cannon created a new bookstore sticker. We received a grant from the city and we partied!”
—Alexa Butler, manager of Beach Books
Scholastic sales rep Chris Satterlund and HarperCollins sales rep Jamil Zaidi
Sales rep Kurtis Lowe of the Imprint Group with Alexa from Beach Books
Authors Rosanne Parry and Matt Wastradowski
Authors Megan Lally and Courtney Gould
Author/ illustrator Corinna Luyken
Top 20 Books from Beach Books’ 20 years:
The Kite Runner
Astrid and Veronika
Twilight
The Highest Tide
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
The Help
Wild
The Light Between Oceans
The Next Tsunami
All the Light We Cannot See
A Man Called Ove
Milk and Honey
Becoming
Deep River
Beach Read
The Song of Achilles
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Ten Thousand Doors of January
That’s Not My Name
Sunrise on the Reaping
