The Book Bear

This place is amazing! Its basically warehouse sized and filled with all sorts of books. Some are super old and some are a bit newer. Prices are reasonable. My only regret is I only spent an hour here, one could easily stay here all day and still have more to look at. I believed the prices are very good, and to my surprise when you spend over $ 20 on more than 3 books they give you a 10% discount. They only accept cash /​checks (aka no credit/​debit cards).
Thank you for being such an awesome place!

As an avid fan of used bookstores, this is one of the best I’ve been to. I’ll happily drive the 45 minutes it takes me to get there because they have an excellent selection that spans every genre you could possibly be looking for. Their prices are extremely reasonable too and will allow you to pile up a whole slew of books, so remember to BRING CASH. Unfortunately they still haven’t caught up with some of the easy to use credit card technology that small businesses can use. But all in all, I loved this book store. The only hallmark that they’re missing, that all used bookstores should have, is a cat :)

I always run out of money because they always have so many books I want. Helpful and friendly staff.

WONDERFUL! Big, full of a great stock of all subjects and topics. As someone else said, the cash/​check-​only and not-​dirt-​cheap prices help you make good decisions about what to haul home.
This is right up the street from the West Brookfield town common, which hosts the Asparagus Festival (May 17, 2014, which I’m dying to get to), and you could also zip along route 9 to route 32 in Hardwick and have the best lunch around at the Rose Thirty Two Bread — a very happy day!

The prices are relatively high for used books, which is excellent because you will not buy too much. e.g., $ 3 for a paperback vs. $ 1, which would lead to oversearving yourself. so, –1 for being expensive.
the choice is overwhelming, it seems like a warehouse, of 50′ x 150′. so –1 for being able to get lost in a grid layout.
truely, –1 star for not sortign their books well enough. that guy should stop reading and start sorting. I gave up on some of my hunts because I was unwilling to go through a 6′ wide by 10 row high double placed (ie two rows of books) to find an obscure scifi book.
if you don’t go, they will close. (if you don’t buy this magazine…)
also, also see the seafood shack in town.
Be aware, they only take cash, so +1 star there, in that you are less likely to overserve yourself!
They are not on abebooks, so you can’t find their stock online.
This is comparable to Powell’s, but is not nearly as nice, and not nearly as sorted, and not nearly as far away.
ps. I believe that it is in West Bookfield, not Brookfield

I am an avid reader and the kind of person who likes to get lost in bookstores, Powells in Portland Oregon with its city block size will always be no 1 for me, but this warehouse style store is great, with an amazing selection. And helpful and friendly staff.
They need to get the square so they can take cards tho, not easy to find an ATM in the sticks. Well worth the ride and a nice drive to boot. Dunkin donuts right next door for your coffee needs.

The Book Bear is your classic great-​warehouse-​in-​the-​middle-​of-​nowhere-​filled-​with-​books. A bit of a grab bag, you are not necessarily likely to find anything in particular that you thought you were looking for, but given the shear volume of books and the breadth of subject areas covered you are bound to find something. Given the prices, probably quite a number of things, probably things you didn’t think you wanted, maybe you still don’t want them, but they’re so damn cheap you don’t really care.
Though organized by subject area, literature and poetry are the only sections that are even remotely alphabetized, so plan on spending some time combing through the shelves.
Nota bene: cash only, though there is an ATM a few miles down the road. Website (thebookbear) says over 90,000 volumes; Mon-​Sun 10am to 6pm.