Off the Beaten Path Bookstore

Wander Off the Beaten Path

When you do, you'll find the nicest things in life.

Since we opened our doors in 1990, we have been Steamboat's largest full service bookstore and the locals' favorite meeting place for Good Books, Good Coffee and Good Friends.

Who are we? Real people who read books and admire great writing. We stand ready to help you find your next great read. Check out our recommendations from our staff and friends.

What about our store? We are a full service bookstore, with extensive collections of current literature, fiction, young adults, history and memoirs. We feature a large children’s collection, and our famous treehouse reading space where our youngest children can escape. We carry the Indie Bound selections, NY Times best sellers, and as a sponsor of the Literary Sojourn (www.literarysojourn.com), a full selection of the Literary Sojourn authors. When you’re away from Steamboat, you can find us here on the web (www.steamboatbooks.com). In addition to our carefully hand selected inventory of books, we stock greeting cards, games, puzzles, toys, candles, journals, and a varied assortment of unique gifts.

Our café serves the best coffee drinks in town, pastries, Big Train drinks, smoothies, soups and salads for lunch, and in the afternoon and evening, wine and hors d’oevres. We are pleased to be serving Storm Mountain Coffee, roasted locally in Oak Creek.

The store, in new digs on 9th Street in historic downtown Steamboat Springs, is open 7 days a week from 9am 'til 8pm, later in the evening during peak seasons.

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Literary Sojourn Authors Announced!

Save the date! The 16th Annual Literary Sojourn will be held at the Steamboat Sheraton Saturday, September 27th! We have a fantastic line up this year, read on to find out who will be here!

The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel
by Greer, Andrew Sean
"We are each the love of someone's life." So begins "The Confessions of Max Tivoli," a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other.Born with the physical appearance of an elderly man, Max grows older mentally like any child, but his body appears to age backwards, growing younger every year. And yet, his physical curse proves to be a blessing, allowing him to try to win the heart of the same woman three times as at each successive encounter she fails to recognize him, taking him for a stranger, so giving Max another chance at love.Set against the historical backdrop of San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century," The Confessions of Max Tivoli "is a beautiful and daring feat of the imagination, questioning the very nature of love, time, and what it means to be human.