Fifteen independent bookstores across Northern Virginia, Frederick, MD, and Wardensville, WV are partnering for the second annual Bookstore Crawl! We’ve created a special Passport to help book lovers explore more of our region’s growing bookstore scene and offer them a way to celebrate with their favorites. While each store will be celebrating on Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 26th with their own festivities, we will all be handing out this special Passport. Throughout May, customers can visit as many stores as they’d like to collect store stamps. Once they have visited 4 stores, they can collect a book prize. Those who...

Hello again everyone! Here’s our annual look at our best sellers across all three of our stores. We like seeing these trends, but also the individual flavors of each store and its customers. With 3 years to look back on, we can see that some things continue to be popular year after year, whether the newest volume of an ongoing series, or just a mega popular book that never goes away! But there are also some great new books that do extremely well. First up, we have The Fox Maidens by local superstar Robin Ha, which we were lucky enough to get an exclusive bookplate for. Transformers was a breakout hit, with the first volume matching...

Between everyone working at Big Planet Comics, we had so many favorites this year! So you should be sure to find something amazing to read from among all these great comics! We divided our lists by graphic novels and comic books. As always, let us know if you want recommendations or if you think of a great one that we missed! Best Graphic Novels of 2024 All of these graphic novels are 20% off throughout December at all of our stores. Stop by and try something new! All Princesses Die Before Dawn – Quentin ZuttionA French slice of life comic that takes place on the day of Princess Diana’s death. Beautiful art and heartfelt writing make...

Hi everyone! Here’s a look at our best sellers at all three of our stores this year. You can really see the difference between each location, but some books were popular everywhere. Comparing to 2022 is really interesting, we get to see the continued popularity of several books that did really well last year. Saga 10 is still a bestseller, but Saga 11 finally came out so expect that to be on our list in 2024. Perennial favorite series like Something is Killing the Children 1, The Department of Truth 1, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin showed up again too. A few books got a big boost from specific moments. James Gunn...

Void Rivals is a thrilling new scifi series by Robert Kirkman, Lorenzo De Felici, and Matheus Lopes. There is a big surprise in issue 1, and Robert Kirkman himself will tell you about it! (Just come and pick up the issue at any of our stores if you want to read it spoiler free!)

It’s been awhile since we’ve done this, so let’s look back at our best selling graphic novels and issues for the year! We finally published a new volume of our own local comics anthology, Big Planet Comics: Neon! This included a new short Zodiac Starforce story by our hometown heroes Kevin Panetta and Paulina Ganucheau, so of course that was one of our bestsellers! Media had an impact, with Moon Knight, Spy X Family, Demon Slayer, Batman: The Long Halloween, Heartstopper, and Chainsaw Man all selling well after their screen adaptations became popular. Controversy elevated a few, as censorship attempts reminded people to...