The Book Barn – Niantic, Connecticut

We visited a really awesome used book store the other day. It’s called The Book Barn and it’s located in Niantic, Connecticut.

First of all, getting to this place is a really nice drive. We take the back way through Salem, CT and then travel through a state forest. After that, we take a nice wooded road all the way to the water. The Connecticut shoreline is really nice, so whenever I get the chance to go down there, I take it.

The Book Barn was a surprise. I wasn’t expecting all the outside buildings to be filled with used books. It’s really a very large collection that was developed over the years. For a little background on the Book Barn, check out this video:

…and for a neat commercial, check out this one:

When we arrived, we brought a pile of our own books to sell to the Book Barn. They buy used books you know. They took some of them, but not all. They gave us $5, which I was happy with. It’s better to get a small chunk of change and give someone else an opportunity to buy the books than to have them sit on a shelf here at the house.

I found two sections that I liked. The fiction section out back and then the biography/history section in the basement of the main barn. Actually, the latter is my favorite. It has all the good political and financial books there. I haven’t visited the downtown location yet, but from what I hear, that’s where all the philosophy and business books are. I will have to make it there another day.

I took some pictures of our visit. In my next post, I will show you which books I bought from the Book Barn in Niantic.