Spartacus Books

About

Spartacus Books is a nonprofit, volunteer-run bookstore and resource centre. The store has been run collectively for over 40 years.

Story

Spartacus has an unparalleled selection of academic and scholarly publications including journals and books and hard-to-find publishers that aren’t available anywhere else in Vancouver. Spartacus carries a diverse and up-to-date selection of books in fields such as;

Anarchy, Race and Society, Community Organizing, Gender, Queer studies, Feminism, Radical Theory, First Nations, Prisons, Poetry and fiction, DIY, Ecology, Literary Criticism, Art and History.

Spartacus is the go-to resource for anti-capitalist, political books not found in big-box bookstores. Our Labour studies section is flourishing with old classics and new titles. We have a great selection of graphic novels, and we have a growing selection of literature in French, German, Esperanto and Spanish.

We have an excellent selection of journals and magazines, for example the latest issues of Adbuster, Abilities, Against the Current, Bitch, Communities, Earth First!, Extra!, Giant Robot, Make/Shift, The Nation, Rethinking Schools, World War 3, and Z Magazine.

Spartacus has an amazingly huge collection of no-where-else-to-be-found zines by local and non-local activists, poets and writers! We also sell patches, badges, T-shirts and posters.

The space is often used for various events – poetry reading, feminist discussion club, books and projects presentations, squeezebox circle meetings and others. Do you want use the space? Up to 30 people can fit in comfortably and we have a projector and sound system. No charge is involved. To apply and learn more about the conditions of use, download this document.

Do you want to volunteer at Spartacus? Fill out the application and bring it to the store.

To support us, you can also donate books or send us some money.