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List of independent bookstores in the United States

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Name State Location(s) Category
Grassrootz Bookstore Template:Country data Arizona Phoenix African-American
Larry Edmunds Bookshop Template:Country data California Los Angeles
The Last Bookstore Template:Country data California Los Angeles
Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural Template:Country data California Los Angeles
Kepler's Books Template:Country data California Menlo Park
Bart's Books Template:Country data California Ojai
Vroman's Bookstore Template:Country data California Pasadena
Libélula Books & Co. Template:Country data California San Diego
Mysterious Galaxy Template:Country data California San Diego and Redondo Beach
Warwick's Template:Country data California San Diego
Booksmith Template:Country data California San Francisco
Borderlands Books Template:Country data California San Francisco
Bound Together Anarchist Collective Bookstore Template:Country data California San Francisco Anarchist
City Lights Bookstore Template:Country data California San Francisco
Green Apple Books & Music Template:Country data California San Francisco
Marcus Books Template:Country data California San Francisco (2 locations)
Book Soup Template:Country data California West Hollywood
Circus of Books Template:Country data California West Hollywood LGBT
Mile High Comics Template:Country data Colorado Denver
Bloodroot Template:Country data Connecticut Bridgeport Feminist
R.J. Julia Booksellers Template:Country data Connecticut Madison
JF Books colspan=2 Template:Country data District of Columbia
Kramers (bookstore) colspan=2 Template:Country data District of Columbia
MahoganyBooks colspan=2 Template:Country data District of Columbia
Politics and Prose colspan=2 Template:Country data District of Columbia (3 locations)
For Keeps (bookstore) Template:Country data Georgia (U.S. state)Template:Namespace detect showall Georgia Atlanta
Charis Books & More Template:Country data Georgia (U.S. state)Template:Namespace detect showall Georgia Decatur Feminist
Quimby's Bookstore Template:Country data Illinois Chicago
Seminary Co-op Template:Country data Illinois Chicago
Unabridged Bookstore Template:Country data Illinois Chicago LGBT
Women & Children First Template:Country data Illinois Chicago LGBT / Feminist
Prairie Lights Template:Country data Iowa Iowa City
ACME Comics & Collectibles Template:Country data Iowa Sioux City
Rainy Day Books Template:Country data Kansas Fairway
Eighth Day Books Template:Country data Kansas Wichita
Joseph-Beth Booksellers Template:Country data Kentucky Lexington
Weiser Antiquarian Books Template:Country data Maine York
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 || Baltimore  || Anarchist  |-   || Lucy Parsons Center   || Massachusetts   || Boston   || Anarchist  |-   || Grolier Poetry Bookshop   || Massachusetts   || Cambridge   ||    |-   || Harvard Book Store   || Massachusetts   || Cambridge   ||    |-   || The Bookmill   || Massachusetts   || Montague   ||  

The Odyssey Bookshop Massachusetts South Hadley  
That's Entertainment (comic shop) Massachusetts Worcester  
John K. King Books Michigan Detroit  
Birchbark Books Minnesota Minneapolis  
DreamHaven Books Minnesota Minneapolis Sci-fi, fantasy, and horror genres
Mayday Books Minnesota Minneapolis  
Moon Palace Books Minnesota Minneapolis  
Mager's & Quinn Minnesota Minneapolis  
Black Garnet Books Minnesota Saint Paul African-American bookstores category
SubText: a Bookstore (Blair Flats) Minnesota Saint Paul
Square Books Mississippi Oxford
Left Bank Books (St. Louis) Missouri St. Louis
Montana Valley Book Store (Bestwick's Market) Montana Alberton
Gambler's Book Shop / GBC Press Nevada Las Vegas
The Writer's Block Nevada Las Vegas
The Lit. Bar New York The Bronx
Book Thug Nation New York Brooklyn
Books Are Magic New York Brooklyn (2 locations)
Community Bookstore (Park Slope) New York Brooklyn
Greenlight Bookstore New York Brooklyn
PowerHouse Books New York Brooklyn
Spoonbill & Sugartown Books New York Brooklyn
Troubled Sleep (bookstore) New York Brooklyn
Unnameable Books New York Brooklyn
Argosy Book Store New York Manhattan
Albertine Books New York Manhattan
Bluestockings (bookstore) New York Manhattan Feminist
Books of Wonder New York Manhattan
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe New York Manhattan
Left Bank Books (New York City) New York Manhattan
McNally Jackson New York Manhattan / Brooklyn (5 locations)
The Mysterious Bookshop New York Manhattan
Printed Matter, Inc New York
Manhattan;;|

-| Rizzoli Bookstore ;;;New York;;Manhattan;;

-| Strand Bookstore ;;;New York;;Manhattan;;

-| Womanbooks ;;;New York;;Manhattan;;Feminist;

-| Yu & Me Books ;;;New York;;Manhattan;;

-| Astoria Bookshop ;;;New York;;Queens;;

-| Firestorm Cafe & Books ;;;North Carolina;;Asheville;;Anarchist/LGBT;

-| Internationalist Books ;;;North Carolina;;Chapel Hill;;

-| The Book Loft of German Village ;;;Ohio;;Columbus;;

-| Two Dollar Radio Headquarters ;;;Ohio;;Columbus;;

-| The Duck Store ;;;Oregon;;Eugene;;

-| Powell's Books ;;;Oregon;;Portland;;

-| Rose City Book Pub ;;;Oregon;;Portland;;

-| Moravian Book Shop ;;;Pennsylvania;;Bethlehem;;College;

-| Baldwin's Book Barn ;;;Pennsylvania;;Philadelphia;;

-| Giovanni's Room Bookstore ;;;Pennsylvania;;Philadelphia;;LGBT;

-| Hakim's Bookstore ;;;Pennsylvania;;Philadelphia;;African-American;

-| Wooden Shoe Books and Records ;;;Pennsylvania;;Philadelphia;;Anarchist;

-| City Books ;;;Pennsylvania;;Pittsburgh;;

-| Otto Bookstore ;;;Pennsylvania;;Williamsport;;

-| Hub City Writers Project (Hub City Bookshop) ;;;South Carolina;;Spartanburg;;

-| BookPeople ;;;Texas;;Austin;;

-| Kindred Stories ;;;Texas;;Houston;;African-American;

-| Pariyatti (bookstore) ;;;Washington;;Onalaska;;

-| Chin Music Press ;;;Washington;;Seattle;;

-| Elliott Bay Book Company ;;;Washington;;Seattle;;

-| Fuel Coffee & Books ;;;Washington;;Seattle (3 locations);;

-| Third Place Books ;;;Washington;;Seattle (3 locations);;

-| Left Bank Books (Seattle) ;;;Washington;;Seattle ;;Anarchist;

-| Queen Anne Book Company ;;;Washington ;;Seattle ;; 

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University Book Store
;; Washington ;; Seattle ;;

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Taylor Books
;; West Virginia ;; Charleston ;;

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A Room of One's Own
;; Wisconsin ;; Madison ;; LGBT/Feminist ;;

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Renaissance Books
;; Wisconsin ;; Milwaukee ;;

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Woodland Pattern Book Center
;; Wisconsin ;; Milwaukee ;;


Historical Overview

The table below presents a selection of independent bookstores that once maintained physical storefronts but have since discontinued in-person retail operations.

Name State City Years of Operation Category
Acres of Books Long Beach 1934–2008
Bodhi Tree Bookstore Los Angeles (later West Hollywood) 1970–2011
The Book Shop Hayward ?–2017
A Change of Hobbit Southern California 1972–1991 Science fiction, fantasy, and horror
Cody'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-American
Fahrenheit 451 Books Laguna Beach 1968–1994
A Different Light Silver Lake (Los Angeles) and The Castro (San Francisco) 1979–2011 LGBT
John 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 Feminist
The Other Change of Hobbit Berkeley later El Cerrito (now mail-order only) 1977–2014 Science fiction, fantasy, and horror
Printers Inc. Bookstore Palo Alto 1978–2001
A Woman's Place Oakland 1970–1989 Feminist
Brian MacKenzie Infoshop   2003–2008
Lambda Rising   1974–2010 LGBT
Teaching 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 Anarchist
Greetings & 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/Feminist
Common Good Books Saint Paul 2006–2019
Coliseum Books Manhattan 1974–2007
Community Bookstore Cobble Hill, Brooklyn 1974–2016
A Different Light Manhattan 1979–2011 LGBT
Forbidden Planet Manhattan Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Gotham Book Mart Manhattan 1920–2007
J. Levine Books and Judaica Manhattan 1905–2019
Librairie de France Manhattan 1935–2009
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