Welcome to Rock Point Books

Rock Point Books is dedicated to becoming a dominant cultural landmark in downtown Chattanooga. An independent bookstore with a decidedly local flavor and a passion for the written word, Rock Point Books features great reading for adults and children, lively special events and author signings, and unsurpassed service for our customers. Read more about Rock Point Books

Rock Point Books wants to thank its customers for a wonderful first two years and share the news that we believe the best is yet to come! You may have noticed our enhanced customer service we have added over the past year. That service combined with your support helped us have a great finish to 2008. But 2009 promises many changes and upgrades we think you will like. We have some great events planned beginning in January and hope that you will help us start the New Year off by reading books and supporting your local bookstore.

Certainly, you can buy books cheaper other places, but Rock Point Books is committed to this community by bringing many of the nation's top authors here for free cultural events. Your ongoing support makes that happen. We know times are tough, but its times like that that education, entertainment and community service matter most. Our commitment is to keep the community enlightened. We hope our friends in turn will start the New Year off by buying and reading more books than ever before. We look forward to serving you and our latest recommendations await...

A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on December 17, 1949, in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Widely considered a landmark play, A Streetcar Named Desire deals with a culture clash between two iconic characters, Blanche DuBois, a fading relic of the Old South, and Stanley Kowalski, a rising member of the industrial, urban working class.

On the third Tuesday of each month, the CLBC will review and examine a literary classic.The Classic Literature Book Club is free to join and open to the public. Join anytime. For more information about this book club, please contact Joel Swanson at (423) 432-8579 or e-mail bookclub.classics@gmail.com.