Full Circle Bookstore Inc

Full Circle Bookstore Inc is an independent, locally-owned general-interest bookstore in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and describes itself as the largest independent bookstore in Oklahoma. It has operated for more than 30 years and is located on the first level of 50 Penn Place in northwest Oklahoma City. The store carries more than 60,000 new titles in stock across every genre imaginable, including fiction, biography, history, culture, mystery, cooking, crafts, fashion, home decoration, women's studies, education, health, entertainment, travel, and classic literature. It also maintains large sections devoted to Oklahoma authors, Native American books, and regional-interest titles, alongside magazines, gift cards, maps, and book-related gifts. The store's physical ambiance is a defining feature: 13-foot oak bookcases with rolling ladders, wood-burning fireplaces, and comfortable seating, with a relaxing mix of classical, jazz, and folk music played throughout. Its staff is composed of genuine readers and book lovers, and the store is known for knowledgeable recommendations. Full Circle is more than a retail shop: it hosts acclaimed national authors such as David Grann, Brian Jacques, Alexander McCall Smith, Diane Rehm, and Ree Drummond, and runs an events calendar that includes children's programming. It also operates Full Circle Press, publishing a wide and varied selection of Oklahoma-centric nonfiction, and The Garden Café, which serves breakfast, soups, salads, sandwiches, sweets, after-hour nibbles, wine, and local beers. Full Circle's local standing is reflected in public praise; Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt has called it the city's "all-but-official bookstore" and "an intellectual refuge," adding that "Full Circle Books is Oklahoma City's brain." The store's symbol and spokeswoman for its Oklahoma collection is Pearl the Buffalo, a gleaming white semi-life-size bison created in 2003 as part of an Oklahoma Nature Conservancy project that sponsored 100 individually decorated bison. Full Circle remains a privately held, locally-owned business and a cultural anchor for Oklahoma City readers.

Full Circle Bookstore has been in business for more than 30 years, according to its own account, serving readers as an independent, locally-owned general-interest bookstore in Oklahoma City. It is located on the first level of 50 Penn Place in northwest Oklahoma City, where it has built a reputation as the largest independent bookstore in Oklahoma. Over the decades the store has stocked more than 60,000 new titles across every genre imaginable and has developed large sections devoted to Oklahoma authors, Native American books, and regional-interest titles. Beyond retail, Full Circle has long functioned as a literary and civic gathering place. Through the years it has hosted acclaimed national authors including David Grann, Brian Jacques, Alexander McCall Smith, Diane Rehm, and Ree Drummond, and it maintains an events calendar that includes programming for children. The store also became a publisher through Full Circle Press, which issues a wide and varied selection of Oklahoma-centric nonfiction that customers would not find elsewhere. A café, The Garden Café, was added to the operation, serving breakfast and lunch as well as after-hour nibbles, wine, and local beers. In 2003 the Oklahoma Nature Conservancy sponsored the creation of 100 bison, each individually given personality by central Oklahoma artists. Full Circle's bison, a gleaming white semi-life-size figure named Pearl, became the symbol and spokeswoman for the store's preeminent collection of books about Oklahoma and by Oklahomans. Pearl's coat was created by three artists, Mishi Susan, Jenny Woodruff, and Claudia Wyli. The store's ambiance—13-foot oak bookcases with rolling ladders, wood-burning fireplaces, comfortable seating, and a mix of classical, jazz, and folk music—has helped define its charm. Full Circle's standing in the community is such that Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt has described it as the city's "all-but-official bookstore," a publisher of important local histories, a host of important local policy discussions, and "an intellectual refuge."

• Full Circle Bookstore has been in business for more than 30 years as of its official website.

• 2003: The Oklahoma Nature Conservancy sponsored the creation of 100 bison; Full Circle's Pearl the Buffalo was created as part of this project.

• Full Circle Press publishes Oklahoma-centric nonfiction.

• The Garden Café opens at Full Circle Bookstore, serving breakfast, lunch, and after-hour refreshments.

Oklahoma's largest independent, locally-owned general-interest bookstore, positioned as a cultural and intellectual anchor for Oklahoma City.

• New books (60,000+ titles in stock)

• Oklahoma authors and regional-interest books

• Native American books

• Magazines, maps, gift cards, and book-related gifts

• Full Circle Press Oklahoma-centric nonfiction

• The Garden Café breakfast, soups, salads, sandwiches, sweets, wine, and local beers

1. 1Full Circle Bookstore – Oklahoma City, OKfullcirclebooks.com
2. 2About Us – Full Circle Bookstorefullcirclebooks.com
3. 3Full Circle Bookstore Inc – Wikidatawikidata.org