Customer service is always Number One at Tsunami Books.  Our grassroots ethos and sense of community stand at the center of everything we do.  Tsunami is a relaxed, friendly, and engaging environment where the local and global converge.  An interesting side note is that the great majority of our beautiful bookshelves and fixtures come from recycled sources, including reclaimed bleacher boards from over 20 school gymnasiums throughout the Great Northwest.

We offer a diverse selection of new, used, rare, and out-of-print titles at affordable prices.   Most new titles in stock are 10% off the normal retail price.  Standard special orders are 15% off.  Please ask about extra discounts on school, book club and bulk orders.  Gift Certificates from Tsunami are often the perfect gift!

"In terms of book selection, Tsunami Books is one of the finest bookstores on the west coast. Yet books are only a sliver of the story...Tsunami has come to reflect the values, diverse interests, and moral compasses of an entire region. "  
~ Michael McGriff (Poet)

If you’d like to support Tsunami from afar, you can order your books through Bookshop.org and choose Tsunami Books as your bookstore to support. We also keep a limited selection of local interest titles in our own online shop. To support Tsunami through your audiobook purchases, choose us as your bookstore on Libro.fm.

Scott Landfield has been a worker/owner of Tsunami Books for 22 years. His parents each owned bookstores in the Midwest at times in their lives between newspaper work. Scott came to Oregon in 1978 to plant trees. Over a 20 year career he planted over 2 million trees, while taking the summers off to be with his daughter. At present he works too many hours at the bookstore to finish any of the books he has spent his adult life writing.

Emily Poole is a freelance illustrator and science fiction and fantasy enthusiast. She has been working in bookstores since high school in Jackson, Wyoming. She specializes in animal and natural history art, and has done illustrations for the book BirdNote, posters for Mt. Pisgah Arboretum, and posters for the Oregon Country Fair. She is currently working on an illustrated calendar of weird things that wash up on the beach, a book of northwestern trees, and pictures for a book of salamanders. She hopes to read a hundred books this year.

Steve Gronert Ellerhoff is a fiction writer, literary scholar, and associate editor at Tsunami Press. He holds a PhD from the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. His latest books include a co-edited collection of critical essays on Ray Bradbury's Elliott Family (Routledge 2020), and Mole (Reaktion Books 2020), which tunnels through the physiological, ecological, mythological, and pop-cultural aspects of our subterranean neighbors. He is currently writing a novel set in Portland and a monograph titled Jung and the Mythology of Star Wars.