About Us

Carnation Bookhouse is a queer pop-up bookstore bringing queer stories and the books we need to take action to locations around Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Carnation Bookhouse is the brainchild of me, Sam Ehlinger (they/she), your local nonbinary librarian. I wanted to make queer stories and small presses more accessible in CU, as someone looking for those stories at bookstores and our libraries.

If you subscribe today, you'll get updates on new releases, what I'm reading and where Carnation Bookhouse is headed next. I hope to see you at our next pop up! Thank you for supporting this effort to bring more queer books to CU!