Oconee County Library Friends Has Mystery/Thrillers, Children’s Book, And More At Fall Book Sale

Community members will have a chance starting on Thursday to participate in the Oconee County Library Friends Fall Book Sale and buy back books donated from the community to help support the library in Watkinsville.

Volunteers have organized an estimated 28,350 books, sorted into 37 categories, to be offered for sale at the Civic Center, 2661 Hog Mountain Road west of Butler’s Crossing.

Top categories are mystery/thrillers, in hardback and paperback. An estimated 3,625 of those will be available for sale.

Children's books, cookbooks, and history are consistently popular categories, and the Book Sale includes 147 boxes of books for children through young adults. Volunteers packed up 59 boxes of cookbooks and 58 boxes of history books.

Each box contains roughly 25 books, according to Penny Mills, Library Friends treasurer and book sale coordinator, but the estimate doesn’t hold well for the children’s books because of their size.

The Book Sale runs from 4 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, but it is open that day only to members of the Oconee County Library Friends. Anyone can become a Friend at the door for $10 per person and $25 for the family.

Sales continue from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, when everything still left will be sold for half price.

All proceeds go to support materials acquisition and programming at the library in Watkinsville.

For more on the story, go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: Library In Watkinsville.