The Odd Book

Founded in 1977, The Odd Book provides second hand and rare books to satisfy a variety of tastes. Travellers and Wolfville residents shop here for mysteries, westerns, science fiction and other light reading at affordable prices. Quality academic non-fiction is another of the store’s strengths. There are always plenty of new titles, with local readers and Acadia University’s students and professors stopping in to buy and sell. Wolfville is a bookish town with more than 40 per cent of its adult population holding post-secondary degrees. As well as being a university town, Wolfville is situated in the centre of a settled rural community. This larger community’s tastes are reflected in the store’s many titles on practical topics, from beekeeping to boat building. Through a wide range of local contacts, the store is regularly supplied with antiquarian books and ephemera related to the history and literature of Atlantic Canada.