READ Books

Name: READ Books
Address: 520 East 1st Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5T0H2, CA
Telephone: +16046307411

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A bookstore and social space for contemporary art publications

08/05/2026

Book Sale AUG 5-12 !!! Come get!

1 book 20% off
2 book 30% off
3+ books 40% off

Plus other books marked down to 70% off 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

07/28/2026

AUGUST 5-12 2026

07/22/2026

More info coming soon

03/30/2026

𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐋𝐀𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐇
𝐃𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠
𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟐, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔, 𝟓:𝟑𝟎–𝟕:𝟑𝟎 𝐏𝐌
𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬
𝟓𝟐𝟎 𝐄 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐯𝐞

READ Books is pleased to announce the launch of Manga Matrix a comic/manga artist book by Dan Starling, with contributions from Steffanie Ling, Deanna Li, Wake Cook, Siqi Yang, Tajliya Jamal, Natalia Soto, and Kobie Gingras-Fox. The book is risograph printed by Moniker Press.

Manga Matrix is inspired by the need for new post-colonial and post-patriarchal narratives that break with the conventions of storytelling in popular media and propose a new way to imagine ourselves individually and collectively. The starting point for the work is the narrative story arc of the hero’s journey and its persistent use in popular culture. To overcome this simplistic yet stubborn mythology, Manga Matrix seeks to maintain a state of tension in which conflict doesn’t resolve in an overly simplistic manner, realist conventions don’t suppress artifice, actions do not flow seamlessly, and interruption is the norm. The “conclusion” of the book consists of a series of lithographic prints that begin as representations but progressively become more and more layered with abstract images, obliterating the narrative and eventually becoming saturated with black ink so that the hero’s journey “stops being written”.

03/10/2026

If you are currently a student, faculty or staff member at you, yes you, get a 20% discount!

There are a few items that are excluded, like magazines, but otherwise come on in and take 20% off regularly priced books. READ READ READ!

02/13/2026

We are please to announce a new ECU Press publication— 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘋𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘚𝘶𝘪𝘵 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘈𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 by available now at READ Books.

Edited by Hong-Kai Wang and Bopha Chhay
with Haytham el-Wardany, Phoebe Giannisi, Gavin Steingo, and Matariki Williams
Texts in English and Mandarin

Co-published by and
Exhibition design by
2025

The artist book 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘋𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘚𝘶𝘪𝘵 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘈𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 is part of an installation work of Hong-Kai’s work included in the exhibition A Call of All Beings: See you tomorrow, same time, same place that was presented at the Taichung Art Museum from December 13, 2025 – April 12, 2026. The exhibition is jointly curated by the Taichung Art Museum curatorial team, Ling-Chih Chou, Alaina Claire Feldman, and Anca Mihuleţ-Kim. Wang’s work will be featured as part of an exhibition at the Libby Leshgold Gallery in 2026.
This publication takes as its point of departure the moral ballad The Great Battle Between the Fly and the Mosquito to reorient our comprehension of human and other-than-human relations, and practices of listening. While fables and folk tales often end with a clear caution or lesson, The Great Battle Between the Fly and Mosquito is distinct in that its delivery and message remains contingent on the time and the environment of transmission and reception. How do the conditions for listening determine how we comprehend these songs and stories?
This publication includes contributions by writers—Haytham el-Wardany, Phoebe Giannisi, Gavin Steingo, and Matariki Williams. Their writing, thinking, and ways of being in the world offer us different paths of possibility as they shape our attention to, and consciousness of, listening practices in critical and expansive ways.

Image: Hong-Kai Wang, Our Words Don’t Suit Prophecies Anymore, 2025. Photo by ANPIS FOTO. Image courtesy of Taichung Art Museum.

01/27/2026

Don’t forget to pick up a 2026 year of the horse calendar by ! We have still have some in the shop 🐴

12/19/2025

These are the last few days to shop! Have a happy holiday!

12/16/2025

Sale news: it’s extended until this Friday! And NEW books are going out on the floor. See you soon :) :) :)

12/03/2025

The Taipei Art Book Fair was an absolute blast! Thanks for having us!!

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V5T0H2

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+16046307411

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http://readbooks.ecuad.ca/

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