a teeny tiny bookstore.

in louisville, ky

Local to Louisville, KY & looking to connect with other book lovers?

Set & Setting hosts a monthly book club for those of us who read just about everything but the kitchen sink manual. If that sounds like you, follow along on Instagram for the most up-to-date information!

The Kitchen Sink Book Club

“A child’s death is the worst, they say, but she won’t die of grief. Perhaps her husband can—he is romantic.”

Guess who finally started the book club book!

Picked up my copy of Monstrilio today from @louisvillefreepubliclibrary 🥰

What were your final thoughts on Chain Gang All-Stars?

I personally thought this was so well done. It was gut and heart wrenching, incredibly difficult material, and I appreciated that it reaffirmed my belief in abolition.

As horrifying as it was,

Meeting this Saturday! If you’re local to Louisville and want to join us to discuss Chain-Gang All-Stars (which i still have not finished because I’m scared 🥲), come on down to @artportal_louisville!
We’ll be chatting and hanging

Photo from @abigail.mcnickle at our new coffee shop in town @phalcha_coffee 😊

Hope y’all are enjoying this month’s read so far! I’m not too far in yet but I’m really enjoying how sharp the writing is even if i am sorta movin

Q2 Book Club Picks have been chosen and are now available to purchase through the store (or the @bookshop_org list!)

Y’all voted for two absolute tear jerkers so i selected Crying In H Mart (the overall winner) for June but The Secret Lives of

Head to Stories to vote in the polls and submit a book that’s been on your TBR!

One of my goals is to activate this page more so you may see me quite a bit this week.

Our Fable club has 133 members and I’ve been neglecting the virtual

Uhm, hey! Sorry i disappeared off this page. Lots of very exciting things happened very quickly! I have a physical bookstore now 😍 isn’t that fucking cool?

Anywho, March’s book club pick is Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Breny

My goal in 2024 is to post on this page at least once a week 😅 there’s lots of new people here so hello!!

Our December book is Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, we’ll be meeting in person this Friday and choosing the books fo

•NOVEMBER BOOK CLUB PICK!•

At the in-person book club meeting last Friday, a new November book was selected!

Since October 7th over 8,000 Palestinians have been m*rdered in an act of collective punishment. The media and the United States

Not local to Louisville?

Join with Fable!

Q2 Book Picks

Click on a cover to purchase from Bookshop.org! I receive a 30% commission from your order ☺︎

Set & Setting has a brick-and-mortar location now!

Street parking available on Portland Ave!

Upcoming Events

To find more information about the event, click on the blocked-out dates.

For the most up-to-date info, follow me on Instagram!