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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

Classicon 41 is June 9th , 2012.

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 55th Michigan Antiquarian Book and Paper Show is coming Sunday, October 7, 2012 at the Lansing Center.

Click here to see the online guide from the last show!

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.

Karen Stilson Armour's Traveling Solo, Faith not Fears
A book review by Ray Walsh posted on Sunday, March 18, 2012
3/18/2012 Karen Stilson Armour loves traveling around the world. But she’s not your average tourist, going to museums and fancy urban shopping areas – she likes more obscure places, in Africa, Central America and the South Pacific.

Elmore Leonard's Raylan
A book review by Ray Walsh posted on Sunday, March 11, 2012
3/11/12 The quick thinking, fast-shooting Givens has appeared in earlier books, “Riding the Rap” and “Pronto,” as well as the short story “Fire in the Hold.”

The Making of a Heretic by Henry J. Flandysz
A book review by Ray Walsh posted on Sunday, March 4, 2012
3/4/2012 “The Making of a Heretic” by Portage author Henry J. Flandysz offers intriguing insights into the life and beliefs of a veteran educator who also served in the Air Force.

Read more at our online journal, Curiosities!