NWA Book Swap 2024

NWA Book Swap allows attendees to shop thousands of titles and swap up to TEN gently used books in the company of other readers!

Event Highlights:

Bring a Book, Take a Book: pass along your lightly used books to a new home and add some new titles to your collection. For every book you bring, you will be able to take a different one home. This means, if you bring three books, you'll get to take 3 books.

Please bring books that meet the following criteria:

• Published within the last fifteen years
• In good condition - i.e. books can show some small signs of wear but no tears or either binding or paper; all pages and dust jackets must be present
• No picture or board books, though graphic novels, middle grade, and young adult novels are acceptable
• Respectful to ALL folks attending and do not contain harmful rhetoric

Diverse Genres Galore: Our Book Swap celebrates the beauty of diversity in literature. Whether you're captivated by thrilling mysteries, enchanted by magical fantasy worlds, or prefer heartwarming tales of romance, we'll have something for everyone. Explore a wide range of genres and discover hidden gems.

Vendor Market: We're also thrilled to invite a curated group of bookish vendors to join us for the duration of the event. Between book and kindle sleeves, earrings, stickers, cookies, pottery and more, there will be so many goodies to take home with your stack of books. We will also have NWA Book Fest merch available for purchase, including tote bags to carry your book haul.

Refreshments and Light Bites: We will have an array of drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) available for purchase, as well as a food truck out front and a couple of dessert vendors for a sweet treat while you browse.

Book Drop-Off: We will have a couple different times and locations for book drop-off. Attendees will be able to drop off their books the day of the event (October 13th) between the hours of 10am and 3pm at the Hilton Garden Inn in Fayetteville (where the event is located). We will also have a drop off set up at Two Friends Books in Bentonville on Saturday, October 12th from 12-4pm.

You must have a ticket in order to swap books. When you drop your books off, you will receive the same number of tickets, which you will need to bring to the event in order to redeem your books at the end of the night.

The Early Bird Gets the Book: Last year, almost all of the 3000 books were swapped within the first 45 minutes of the event. This is a drop-in event, but it's also first come, first serve - please be aware that the stacks will get smaller throughout the night.

Host or Publisher NWA Book Fest