List of independent bookstores in the United States

This is a list of independent bookstores in the United States, both current and defunct, which have had physical ("brick-and-mortar") locations. For bookstores with at least 4 locations, see list of bookstore chains.

Current

Name State Location(s) TypeGrassrootz Bookstore Phoenix African-AmericanLarry Edmunds Bookshop Los Angeles The Last Bookstore Los Angeles Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural Los Angeles Kepler's Books Menlo Park Bart's Books Ojai Vroman's Bookstore Pasadena Libélula Books & Co. San Diego Mysterious Galaxy San Diego and Redondo Beach Warwick's San Diego Booksmith San Francisco Borderlands Books San Francisco Bound Together Anarchist Collective Bookstore San Francisco AnarchistCity Lights Bookstore San Francisco Green Apple Books & Music San Francisco Marcus Books San Francisco (2 locations) Book Soup West Hollywood Circus of Books West Hollywood LGBTMile High Comics Denver Bloodroot Bridgeport FeministR.J. Julia Booksellers Madison JF Books Kramers (bookstore) MahoganyBooks Politics and Prose (3 locations)For Keeps (bookstore) Georgia Atlanta Charis Books & More Georgia Decatur FeministQuimby's Bookstore Chicago Seminary Co-op Chicago Unabridged Bookstore Chicago LGBTWomen & Children First Chicago LGBT/FeministPrairie Lights Iowa City ACME Comics & Collectibles Sioux City Rainy Day Books Fairway Eighth Day Books Wichita Joseph-Beth Booksellers Lexington Weiser Antiquarian Books York Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse Baltimore AnarchistLucy Parsons Center Boston AnarchistGrolier Poetry Bookshop Cambridge Harvard Book Store Cambridge The Bookmill Montague The Odyssey Bookshop South Hadley That's Entertainment Worcester John K. King Books Detroit Birchbark Books Minneapolis DreamHaven Books Minneapolis Sci-fi, fantasy, and horrorMayday Books Minneapolis Moon Palace Books Minneapolis Mager's & Quinn Minneapolis Black Garnet Books Saint Paul African-AmericanSquare Books Oxford Left Bank Books St. Louis Montana Valley Book Store Alberton Gambler's Book Shop Las Vegas The Writer's Block Las Vegas The Lit. Bar The Bronx Book Thug Nation Brooklyn Books Are Magic Brooklyn (2 locations) Community Bookstore Brooklyn Greenlight Bookstore Brooklyn PowerHouse Books Brooklyn Spoonbill & Sugartown Books Brooklyn Troubled Sleep Brooklyn Unnameable Books Brooklyn Argosy Book Store Manhattan Albertine Books Manhattan Bluestockings Manhattan FeministBooks of Wonder Manhattan Housing Works Bookstore Cafe Manhattan Left Bank Books Manhattan McNally Jackson Manhattan/Brooklyn (5 locations)The Mysterious Bookshop Manhattan Printed Matter, Inc Manhattan Rizzoli Bookstore Manhattan Strand Bookstore Manhattan Womanbooks Manhattan FeministYu & Me Books Manhattan Astoria Bookshop Queens Firestorm Cafe & Books Asheville Anarchist/LGBTInternationalist Books Chapel Hill The Book Loft of German Village Columbus Two Dollar Radio Headquarters Columbus The Duck Store Eugene Powell's Books Portland Rose City Book Pub Portland Moravian Book Shop Bethlehem CollegeBaldwin's Book Barn Philadelphia Giovanni's Room Bookstore Philadelphia LGBTHakim's Bookstore Philadelphia African-AmericanWooden Shoe Books and Records Philadelphia AnarchistCity Books Pittsburgh Otto Bookstore Williamsport Hub City Bookshop Spartanburg BookPeople Austin Kindred Stories Houston African-AmericanPariyatti Onalaska Charlie's Queer BooksSeattleLGBTQChin Music Press Seattle Elliott Bay Book Company Seattle Fuel Coffee & Books Seattle (3 locations)Third Place Books Seattle (3 locations) Left Bank Books Seattle AnarchistQueen Anne Book Company Seattle University Book Store Seattle Taylor Books Charleston A Room of One's Own Madison LGBT/FeministRenaissance Books Milwaukee Woodland Pattern Book Center Milwaukee

Historical

The following is a list of independent bookstores which no longer sell books at brick-and-mortar stores but did in the past.

Name State City Years activeTypeAcres of Books Long Beach 1934–2008 Bodhi Tree Bookstore Los Angeles (eventually West Hollywood) 1970–2011 The Book Shop Hayward ?–2017 A Change of Hobbit Southern CaliforniaDuke Helfand, "For Science Fiction Fans, Old Habit Dies Hard : Change of Hobbit Devotees Are Already Mourning Bookstore Demise", Los Angeles Times, Feb. 10, 1991.Sherry Gottlieb, "Escape Velocity: A History of A Change of Hobbit Bookstore". 1972–1991 Sci-fi, fantasy, and horrorCody's Books Berkeley 1956–2008 Comics and Comix Berkeley 1972–2004 Computer Literacy Bookshops Sunnyvale 1983–2000 Daliel's Bookstore Berkeley 1945–1952 Dawson's Book Shop Los Angeles 1905–? Dutton's Books Valley Village (Los Angeles) and Burbank 1960–2006 Eso Won Books Los Angeles 1988–2022 African-AmericanFahrenheit 451 Books Laguna Beach 1968–1994 A Different Light Silver Lake (Los Angeles) and The Castro (San Francisco) 1979–2011 LGBTJohn Cole's Book Shop La Jolla (San Diego) 1946–2005 Lobal Orning Topanga 2003–2008 Midnight Special Bookstore Santa Monica 1970–2004 Old Wives Tales San Francisco 1976–1995 FeministThe Other Change of Hobbit Berkeley later in El Cerrito (now mail-order only) 1977–2014 Sci-fi, fantasy, and horrorPrinters Inc. Bookstore Palo Alto 1978–2001 A Woman's Place Oakland 1970–1989 FeministBrian MacKenzie Infoshop 2003–2008 Lambda Rising 1974–2010 LGBTTeaching for Change Bookstore ?-2015 Washington Bookshop 1938–1950 World Bank Infoshop 1996–2016 Haslam's Bookstore St. Petersburg 1933–2020 Open Books & Records Miami Beach 1979–1994 Kroch's and Brentano's Chicago 1954–1995 New World Resource Center Chicago ? Prairie Avenue Bookshop Chicago ?–2009 Better World Books Goshen and Mishawaka 2002–2019 Boxcar Books Bloomington 2001–2017 Iron Rail Book Collective New Orleans 2003–2014 AnarchistGreetings & Readings Hunt Valley 1969–2019 Victor Kamkin Bookstore Rockville 1953–2002 Globe Corner Bookstore Cambridge 1982–2010 New Words Bookstore Cambridge 1974–2008 Schoenhof's Foreign Books Cambridge 1856–2017 Marwil Bookstore Detroit 1948–2013 Amazon Bookstore Cooperative Minneapolis 1970–2012 LGBT/FeministCommon Good Books Saint Paul 2006–2019 Coliseum Books Manhattan 1974–2007 Community Bookstore Cobble Hill, Brooklyn 1974–2016 A Different Light Manhattan 1979–2011 LGBTForbidden Planet Manhattan Sci-fi, fantasy, and horrorGotham Book Mart Manhattan 1920–2007 J. Levine Books and Judaica Manhattan 1905–2019 Librairie de France Manhattan 1935–2009 Nkiru Books Brooklyn 1976–? Oscar Wilde Bookshop Manhattan 1967–2009 LGBTPomander Book Shop Manhattan 1975–1990s St. Mark's Bookshop Manhattan 1977–2016 The Wooster Book Company Wooster 1992–2017 Cameron's Books and Magazines Portland 1938–2021 In Other Words Women's Books and Resources Portland 1993–2018 FeministLeary's Book Store Philadelphia 1836–1969 Beauty and the Book Jefferson ?

See also

American Booksellers Association Books in the United States List of bookstore chains List of independent bookstores

References

External links AALBC.com's map showing black-owned independent booksellers American Booksellers Association member directory Independent booksellers resource page and listings IndieBound.org, independent bookstore association sponsored by the American Booksellers Association Midwest Independent Booksellers Association NewPages guide to independent bookstores in the U.S. and Canada