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. Stores which have gone out of business are denoted with a dagger (†).

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Alaska

• Fireside Books in Palmer, Alaska

Arizona

• Bookmans in Tucson, Mesa, Phoenix and Flagstaff

California

Bart's Books in Ojai

Booksmith, San Francisco

The Last Bookstore, Los Angeles

• Acres of Books† in Long Beach
• Bart's Books in Ojai
• Bodhi Tree Bookstore† in Los Angeles (eventually West Hollywood)
• The Book Shop in Hayward
• Book Soup in West Hollywood
• Booksmith in San Francisco
• Borderlands Books in San Francisco
• Bound Together Anarchist Collective Bookstore in San Francisco
• City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco
• Cody's Books† in Berkeley
• Computer Literacy Bookshops† in Sunnyvale
• Copperfield's Books in Napa
• 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
• Libélula Books & Co. in Barrio Logan, San Diego
• Lobal Orning† in Topanga
• Marcus Books in San Francisco and Oakland
• 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
• Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural in Sylmar (Los Angeles)
• Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena

Colorado

• Tattered Cover in Denver
• The Book Stop in Wheat Ridge, Colorado | Wheat Ridge]]

Connecticut

• R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison

District of Columbia

Kramers (bookstore)

• Brian MacKenzie Infoshop†
• Busboys and Poets
• Kramers (bookstore)
• Lambda Rising†
• MahoganyBooks
• 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

Georgia

• Charis Books & More in Decatur
• For Keeps (bookstore) in Atlanta

Illinois

• Kroch's and Brentano's† in Chicago
• New World Resource Center† in Chicago
• Prairie Avenue Bookshop† in Chicago
• Quimby's Bookstore in Chicago
• Seminary Co-op in Chicago
• Unabridged Bookstore in Chicago
• Women & Children First in Chicago

Indiana

• Better World Books in Goshen and Mishawaka
• Boxcar Books in Bloomington

Iowa

• ACME Comics & Collectibles in Sioux 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

• Sherman's Maine Coast Book Shops (nine locations)
• 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

Harvard Book Store, Cambridge

• 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
• DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis
• Mayday Books in Minneapolis
• SubText: a Bookstore in Saint Paul
• Mager's & Quinn in Minneapolis

Mississippi

• Square Books in Oxford

Missouri

• Left Bank Books in St. Louis

Nevada

• Gambler's Book Shop in Las Vegas
• The Writer's Block in Las Vegas

New York

Bluestockings in Manhattan

The Mysterious Bookshop, Manhattan

• Albertine Books in Manhattan
• 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
• Librairie de France† in Manhattan
• The Mysterious Bookshop 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

North Carolina

• Firestorm Cafe & Books in Asheville
• Internationalist Books in Chapel Hill

Ohio

• The Book Loft of German Village in Columbus
• Two Dollar Radio Headquarters in Columbus
• 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
• Rose City Book Pub

Pennsylvania

• City Books in Pittsburgh
• Giovanni's Room Bookstore in Philadelphia
• Leary's Book Store† in Philadelphia
• Moravian Book Shop in Bethlehem
• Wooden Shoe Books and Records in Philadelphia

South Carolina

• Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg

Texas

• Beauty and the Book† in Jefferson
• BookPeople in Austin

Washington

• Chin Music Press in Pike Place Market, Seattle
• Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle
• Third Place Books in 3 locations Lake Forest Park, Northeast Seattle, & South Seattle
• Left Bank Books in Pike Place Market, Seattle

West Virginia

• Taylor Books in Charleston, West Virginia

Wisconsin

• Renaissance Books in Milwaukee
• A Room of One's Own in Madison
• 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

• 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