Read Women discussion

Tomorrow, April 27, is Independent BookStore Day in the US. For fun, share your favorite indie bookstores (used, new, both, whatever) in this thread, starting with location for ease of members finding them when traveling.

I'll start:

Charlottesville, Virginia (both, used books): Heartwood Books https://www.abaa.org/booksellers/deta... and Blue Whale Books https://www.bluewhalebooks.com/

Durham, NC: Letters Bookshop (used and new) https://www.lettersbookshop.com/ and Rofhiwa Books (Black owned, new books, + coffee) https://rofhiwabooks.com/

Raleigh, NC: Blackbirds Books and Coffee (new books + coffee + tea + yarn-crafty) (woman-owned, queer, bipoc, indigenous author friendly, emphasis) https://www.blackbirdbooksandcoffee.c...

You?

Pittsburgh, PA:
* City of Asylum - https://www.cityofasylumbooks.org/, exciled writers and more, one of the partners for the Pittsburgh Prison Book Project
* Mystery Lovers Book Shoppe - ttps://www.mysterylovers.com/, women owned - mysteries, thrillers, and literary fiction
* White Whale - https://whitewhalebookstore.com/, general interest, the other local partner for the Pittsburgh Prison Book Project
* Penguin Bookshop - https://www.penguinbookshop.com/, general

Dallas, TX:
* Deep Vellum Bookstore - https://deepvellum.com/, literature in translation, literary fiction
* Interbang Books - https://www.interabangbooks.com/, I think just about everything

Phoenix, AZ:
* Poisoned Pen Bookstore - https://poisonedpen.com/, woman-owned, mysteries, thrillers

To celebrate tomorrow, I'll be hitting at least the top two Pittsburgh favorites.

My favorites are https://brewsterbookstore.com/ located in the beautiful town of Brewster, MA on Cape Cod. Located in a tourist location they are open year-round with lots of events, story time and a book club.

https://www.wesleyanrjjulia.com/ RJ Julia in Middletown CT is affiliated with Wesleyan University. The folks that work here know their stuff. I love wandering through the shelves reading the employees' notes on the books. There is a great kids section and a little coffee shop and of course guest authors. There is another store in Madison, CT but this is the one I am familiar with.

In NYC, of course - The Strand, a huge, multi-floor, buy-sell-trade landmark institution, near East Village and Union Square
https://www.strandbooks.com

In Brooklyn, NY - Unnameable Books, a small, literary buy-sell-trade spot in Prospect Heights
https://unnameablebooks.square.site

In St. Louis, MO:

Left Bank Books - https://www.left-bank.com/shop

Subterranean Books - https://store.subbooks.com/

Oh, man, these are such fun to read about. Keep ‘em coming!

Gail W., we must be neighbors (in the Pittsburgh sense). Agree on White Whale and Penguin. I still need to visit City of Asylum (and we've lived here for 13 years)!

Another Pittsburgh fave: Amazing Books and Records
http://www.amazingbooksandrecords.com/

Doylestown, PA (suburb of Philly)
The Doylestown Bookshop
https://www.doylestownbookshop.com/

Key West, Florida
Books and Books (Judy Blume's bookstore!)
https://booksandbookskw.com/

NYC
Housing Works Bookstore
https://www.housingworks.org/location...

Great idea for a thread!

Yes, Housing Works thrift shops! The Chelsea location was a fave of mine for all kind of stuff.
Noting the Dallas recs for my regular central Texas visits.
I need to check out the indie shops in Austin once and for all. This thread will inspire me to do so next time I'm visiting the parents. I tend to just go to Half Price Books cuz I can trade stuff in and buy stuff secondhand...

Cocoa, Florida

Hello Again Books in Cocoa Village

https://www.helloagainbooks.com/

Oakland, Cailfornia:

Spectator Books in Piedmont

https://www.spectatorbooks.com

To round this out, here's what I bought today!

The Mayor of Maxwell Street by Avery Cunningham
The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali by Uzma Aslam Khan
A Novel to Read on the Train by Dumitru Tsepeneag
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

And several novels and journals to be delivered to the Pittsburgh Prison Book Project by City Asylum Bookstore.

It was a lovely day!!

Berlin, Germany

St. George’s, a small, lovely new and used English language bookshop, seems to specialize in literary fiction, has a decent poetry section, and also has nonfiction.
http://www.saintgeorgesbookshop.com

I just got from them-
Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair (poetry)
Greek Lessons by Han Kang
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield- fun book design, so I am stoked to have found this one as a real book

Here in Denver we a pretty cool bookstore called The Tattered Cover: https://www.tatteredcover.com/. There is one less than a mile from where I work which is kind of dangerous. They do have used books as well which is fun. They are super supportive of authors - have a lot of author visits. They carry a lot of BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and women authors. They are even trying to do right with their bathrooms by making it all gender - I mean, they missed the mark by an unbelievably high margin, but they are trying. To be fair, they are not rolling in money, and it's probably expensive.

The other store I spend WAY too much time in is The Friends of the Public Library: https://www.fapl.info/ It's a non-profit that raises money for the Aurora public libraries. I came home with a bag full of 90s and 2000s Sci-Fi written by women on Saturday. :)