This is a list of independent bookstores in
the United States, both current and defunct,
which have had physical ("brick-and-mortar")
locations.
Stores which have gone out of business are
denoted with a dagger (†).
== Arizona ==
Bookmans in Tucson, Mesa, Phoenix and Flagstaff
== California ==
Acres of Books† in Long Beach
Amicus Books in Marysville
Bart's Books in Ojai
The Book Shop in Hayward
Book Soup in West Hollywood
Booksmith in San Francisco
Borderlands Books in San Francisco
City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco
Cody's Books† in Berkeley
Computer Literacy Bookshops† in Sunnyvale
Daliel's Bookstore† in Berkeley
A Different Light† in Silver Lake (Los Angeles)
and The Castro (San Francisco)
Dutton's Books† in Valley Village (Los Angeles)
and Burbank
Fahrenheit 451 Books in Laguna Beach
Green Apple Books & Music in Richmond District
(San Francisco)
John Cole's Book Shop† in La Jolla (San
Diego)
Kepler's Books in Menlo Park
The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles
Lobal Orning† in Topanga
Midnight Special Bookstore† in Santa Monica
Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego and Redondo
Beach
The Other Change of Hobbit in Berkeley
Printers Inc.
Bookstore† in Palo Alto
Rakestraw Books in Danville
Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural in Sylmar (Los
Angeles)
Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena
== Colorado ==
Tattered Cover in Denver
== Connecticut ==
R.J.
Julia Booksellers in Madison
== District of Columbia ==
Brian MacKenzie Infoshop†
Kramerbooks & Afterwords
Lambda Rising†
Politics and Prose
Teaching for Change Bookstore
Washington Bookshop†
World Bank Infoshop
== Florida ==
Haslam's Bookstore in St. Petersburg
Open Books & Records† in Miami Beach
== Illinois ==
Kroch's and Brentano's† in Chicago
New World Resource Center† in Chicago
Prairie Avenue Bookshop† in Chicago
Seminary Co-op in Chicago
Bookends & Beginnings in Evanston
== Indiana ==
Better World Books in Goshen and Mishawaka
Boxcar Books in Bloomington
== Iowa ==
ACME Comics & Collectibles in Sioux City
The Haunted Bookshop in Iowa City
Prairie Lights in Iowa City
== Kansas ==
Eighth Day Books in Wichita
Rainy Day Books in Fairway
== Kentucky ==
Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington
== Louisiana ==
Iron Rail Book Collective in New Orleans
== Maine ==
Weiser Antiquarian Books in York
== Maryland ==
Daedalus Books in Columbia
Greetings & Readings in Hunt Valley
Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse in Baltimore
Victor Kamkin Bookstore† in Rockville
== Massachusetts ==
The Bookmill in Montague
Globe Corner Bookstore† in Cambridge
Grolier Poetry Bookshop in Cambridge
Harvard Book Store in Cambridge
Lucy Parsons Center in Boston
New Words Bookstore† in Cambridge
The Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley
Schoenhof's Foreign Books in Cambridge
That's Entertainment in Worcester
== Michigan ==
John K. King Books in Detroit
Marwil Bookstore† in Detroit
Schuler Books & Music in Grand Rapids
== Minnesota ==
Amazon Bookstore Cooperative† in Minneapolis
Birchbark Books in Minneapolis
Common Good Books in Saint Paul
Mayday Books in Minneapolis
SubText: a Bookstore in Saint Paul
Mager's & Quinn in Minneapolis
== Mississippi ==
Square Books in Oxford
== Nevada ==
Gambler's Book Shop in Las Vegas
The Writer's Block in Las Vegas
== New York ==
Bluestockings in Manhattan (1999–)
Coliseum Books† in Manhattan
Community Bookstore† in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
Community Bookstore in Park Slope, Brooklyn
A Different Light† in Manhattan
Gotham Book Mart† in Manhattan
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in Manhattan
J. Levine Books and Judaica in Manhattan
Nkiru Books† in Brooklyn
Oscar Wilde Bookshop† in Manhattan
Pomander Book Shop in Manhattan
Printed Matter, Inc in Manhattan
Rizzoli Bookstore† in Manhattan
St. Mark's Bookshop in Manhattan
Strand Bookstore in Manhattan (1927–)
Unnameable Books in Brooklyn
Yesterday's Muse Books in Rochester (2002–)
== North Carolina ==
Firestorm Cafe & Books in Asheville
Internationalist Books in Chapel Hill
== Ohio ==
The Wooster Book Company in Wooster
== Oregon ==
The Duck Store in Eugene
In Other Words Women's Books and Resources
in Portland
Powell's Books in Portland
== Pennsylvania ==
Giovanni's Room Bookstore in Philadelphia
Leary's Book Store† in Philadelphia
Moravian Book Shop in Bethlehem
Wooden Shoe Books in Philadelphia
== South Carolina ==
Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg
Buxton Books in Charleston
== Texas ==
Beauty and the Book in Jefferson
BookPeople in Austin
Murder by the Book in Houston
The Witchery in Galveston
== Washington ==
Bauhaus Books & Coffee in Seattle
Chin Music Press in Pike Place Market, Seattle
The Neverending Bookshop in Edmonds
Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park
University Book Store in Seattle
== Wisconsin ==
Renaissance Books in Milwaukee
Thimbleberry Books in Marshfield
Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee
== See also ==
American Booksellers Association
Books in the United States
List of bookstore chains
List of independent bookstores
== External links ==
NewPages guide to independent bookstores in
the U.S. and Canada
IndieBound.org, independent bookstore association
sponsored by the American Booksellers Association
American Booksellers Association member directory
Independent booksellers resource page and
listings
AALBC.com's map showing black-owned independent
booksellers°
