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0.7 miHawthorne
1.3 miGlen Rock - Main Line
1.5 miGlen Rock (Boro Hall)
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Specialties
We are your friendly local bookstore. We have a wide array of new and used books for your every whim. Come enjoy a free cup of coffee or tea and let us help you find the book you’re looking for (even if you’re not sure what that is yet).
History
Established in 2010.
Well Read is the only bookstore in Hawthorne, New Jersey. We are independently owned and operated, we opened in Hawthorne on November 1st 2010. This bookstore was the culmination of a lifetime of reading and browsing bookstores around the world. Well Read is a composite of all the best features of those many stores visited throughout a lifetime. Free parking is available in our lot at the rear of the store (follow our sign to the front entrance) and there is 30 minute street parking available directly in front of the store. We carry an extensive selection of New and Used books, Greeting Cards, Magazines, Educational Games and also have a very nice children’s section and much more. We hope you will enjoy visiting us as much as we enjoyed visiting them!
Meet the Business Owner
Bill S.
Business Owner
«Bill Skees has been a bibliophile for as long as he can remember. His favorite haunt growing up in Midland, Texas, was a bookstore called Miz B’s. «I’d look at her behind the counter and think, ‘That’s got to be the greatest job in the world,’ «he says. In the decades that followed, Skees crossed the country for various jobs in IT, most recently heading development for a gaming company. But the work was stressful, and every chance he got, he slipped off to a bookstore. All the while, he dreamed of opening his own shop. A dog walk one day in 2010 changed the timetable. While ambling in nearby Hawthorne, N.J., he spotted a store for rent. The price per foot was far cheaper than in the tonier areas he’d scouted. So with the support of his wife and three kids — then 17, 19 and 34 — he winnowed down his consulting clients and signed a lease. Well Read Books has an inventory of 12,000 titles ranging from nonfiction to sci-fi.»
