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About Us

Curious Book Shop is a used and rare book store located in downtown East Lansing. Originally started in a basement in 1969, the store has since expanded to three floors of over 50,000 well-organized books, magazines, and other paper items.

We take great pride in supplying books to the community everything from recent paperbacks to scarce antiquarian titles and our staff members are knowledgeable and dedicated to good customer service. Shop specialties are science fiction, mystery, children's books, Michigan history, sports memorabilia, and old magazines of every variety. We invite you to stop by and browse.

Latest News

As seen on Youtube: Curious Book Shop! Click here to see Curious featured on Focal Point.

Click here to see a video of the 54th Michigan Antiquarian Book and Paper Show!

New Arrivals

New additions to the shop include cookbooks, philosophy, psychology, Japanese art books and manga, vintage maps, Native American histories and memoirs, and paperback mysteries.

We have expanded our comics section! We currently have boxes of Mad Magazine, Vintage Disney, National Lampoon, Spiderman, Classic X-Men, Western Comics, Romance Comics, DC's, and more.

We are adding a nice selection of scholary books, philosophy, poetry and literary criticism.

Come in and check out our new arrivals in the Military History and Navy Sections.

Recently, we have added lots of books to our Humor section including many Peanuts, Doonesbury, and Art Buchwald, both in paperback and hardback.

Book Shows

The 55th Michigan Antiquarian Book and Paper Show is coming Sunday, April 1, 2012 at the Lansing Center.

Click here to see the guide from the 54th show!

Classicon 40 was Saturday, November 12, 2011.

Classicon is a one-day Pulp and Paper Show held twice a year. The show features pulp magazines and pulp-related items, including magazines, digests, paperbacks, comics, pinups, original paperback art, posters, calendars, and more. The next Classicon will be late this spring.

Book Reviews

Ray's most recently reviewed books. Click the title to visit our blog where you can read the full review and browse others from the archive.

New Year's treats for real mystery lovers
A book review by Ray Walsh posted on Sunday, January 3, 2012
11/1/2012 Die-hard mystery lovers can start the year off with a few real treats – there’s an excellent new novel out by Michael Connelly and a pair of books relating to Agatha Christie.

Book is love letter to late Jacobson's
A book review by Ray Walsh posted on Sunday, December 18, 2011
12/18/2011 For decades, the holiday season in East Lansing always brought thousands of shoppers into town to buy items at Jacobson's, the elegant department store and centerpiece of the city's commercial district.

Escape to Florida in 2 new novels
A book review by Ray Walsh posted on Sunday, December 11, 2011
12/11/2011 With the cold wind blowing and the temperature dropping, maybe it's time get away from it all and escape — in a pair of hot crime novels set in sunny Florida.

Read more at our online journal, Curiosities!