The Kenyon Bookstore offers much more than books to the College community -- although it offers books in abundance. In addition to its textbook department, the store provides a large selection of fiction and nonfiction trade books, ranging from bestsellers to remainders, on subjects from anthropology to zoology. If a book can't be found on the shelves, the store's staff will order it.

The Bookstore, which occupies a central location on the Kenyon campus, also sells clothing, CD's, food and drink, glassware, greeting cards, stationery and sundries. It also provides a fax machine.

The bookstore also serves as a center of social life on campus. In an article in the Wall Street Journal, a reporter noted that the store functions as "a second living room. Here, customers can sit in armchairs, eat Ben and Jerry's ice cream, and read all day long without buying a thing. They can even leaf through a magazine, make a copy of an article, and put the publication back on the shelf--without once getting a cold stare from an employee."

Profits from bookstore operations benefit the College's general scholarship fund.