Explore Houston bookstores during a second annual bookstore crawl

• And, boy, do we have a variety all throughout the Greater Houston area — from shops that have existed for decades, like Brazos Bookstore, to new genre-specific ones, like Mossrose Bookshop.
• Other participants include Pearland's LIT Java book and coffee shop; pop-up Candescent Books; Murder by the Book in Rice Village; and Copperfield's Books in Spring.
• Check out a map of the booksellers.

How it works: Pick up a crawl card at one of the 25 participating stores. Get your card stamped or signed by each of the stores you visit through the end of April.

• Once you visit 10, you can submit your card to any of the participating bookstores to be entered into a raffle for gifts.
• Every store you hit after the first 10 counts as an additional entry. The cards must be turned in by the end of business on April 30.

The bottom line: Support Houston's vibrant book community.

• And, hey, collecting books is its own hobby — don't let your to-be-read pile stop you.