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Kaboom Books

17 locals recommend,

Tips from locals

Angelina
April 19, 2017
My absolute favorite book store!
Hillary
June 12, 2018
Extensive selection of books. You could spend all day here. Very friendly shop owner.
Shahla
February 8, 2018
One of the most lovely book store in Houston
Benjamin
September 2, 2022
Great eclectic used bookstore in historic Woodland Heights. Never know what you will find!
Sierra
April 9, 2022
Kaboom Books is a general purpose, used bookstore at the eastern edge of Woodland Heights immediately above Downtown Houston. For 30+ years we had a succession of bookshops in New Orleans, in the back of the French Quarter. Now, in Houston, our purpose remains the same: providing a bookstore based on complexity and an inventory of ideas, which acts as a sounding board for social discourse within the confines of Houston’s hundreds of neighborhoods. If you are tired of looking for books by sitting in your underwear, hunched over your keyboard, watching type trickle down the screen, come by and have a browse. Put something more on before you come though; as Lord Buckley said, “You can’t do anything without your pants on.”
Kaboom Books is a general purpose, used bookstore at the eastern edge of Woodland Heights immediately above Downtown Houston. For 30+ years we had a succession of bookshops in New Orleans, in the back of the French Quarter. Now, in Houston, our purpose remains the same: providing a bookstore based…

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Location
3116 Houston Ave
Houston, TX
Northside