List of independent bookstores

Independent bookstores are small bookselling businesses, usually with one or a small number of locations in a limited geographic area. They contrast with corporate or chain bookstores, operated by a larger company, often with many stores across a large area.

Outside the United States

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Name Country Location(s) Notes
Foreign Language Bookshop  Australia Melbourne
Aqua Books  Canada Winnipeg, Manitoba (defunct)
Attic Books  Canada London, Ontario
Bakka-Phoenix  Canada Toronto, Ontario
Bison Books  Canada Winnipeg, Manitoba
Book City  Canada Toronto, Ontario
The Book Room  Canada Halifax, Nova Scotia was, at the time of its 2008 closing, the oldest bookstore in Canada (defunct)
Camas Bookstore and Infoshop  Canada Victoria, British Columbia
Common Woman Books  Canada (feminist, defunct)
Glad Day Bookshop  Canada Toronto, Ontario
Highway Book Shop  Canada Cobalt, Ontario (defunct)
Hyman's Book and Art Shoppe  Canada independent Jewish bookstore in Toronto, Ontario (defunct)
Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium  Canada Vancouver, British Columbia
McNally Robinson  Canada small independently run chain of stores across Canada
Mondragon Bookstore & Coffeehouse  Canada Winnipeg, Manitoba (defunct)
The Monkey's Paw  Canada Toronto, Ontario
Munro's Books  Canada Victoria, British Columbia
Spartacus Books  Canada Vancouver, British Columbia
This Ain't the Rosedale Library  Canada Toronto, Ontario (defunct)
Toronto Women's Bookstore  Canada Toronto, Ontario (defunct)
The Word Bookstore  Canada Montreal
José Corti  France Paris
Shakespeare and Company  France Paris
BuchGourmet  Germany Cologne
Atuagkat Bookstore  Greenland Nuuk
An Ceathrú Póilí  Ireland Belfast
Sefer ve Sefel  Israel Jerusalem
Al-Jahith's Treasury  Jordan
Solidaridad book shop  Philippines Ermita district of Manila[1][2]
BooksActually  Singapore Tiong Bahru[3][4]
Fascination Books[5]  South Africa
An Ceathrú Póilí  United Kingdom Belfast
Arthur Probsthain  United Kingdom London
Barter Books  United Kingdom Alnwick Station, Northumberland
Compendium Books  United Kingdom London
Daunt Books  United Kingdom London
Grass Roots Books  United Kingdom
Housmans  United Kingdom London
Silver Moon Bookshop  United Kingdom (defunct)
The Second Shelf  United Kingdom London[6]
Stanfords  United Kingdom London

United States

Main article: List of independent bookstores in the United States

See also

References

  1. ^ "Review: A Different Bookstore, Dymocks, La Solidaridad, Filipino Bookstore". The Philippine Inquirer. October 13, 2001.
  2. ^ "Solidaridad: A Gem of a Bookstore". wheninmanila.com. March 18, 2014.
  3. ^ "Singapore's best independent bookstores". Travelfish.
  4. ^ "BooksActually twists plot to create success". The Straits Times. March 14, 2012. Archived from the original on February 16, 2015 – via stclassifieds.sg.
  5. ^ "Book chain closes doors: Fin24: Companies". 2011-07-11. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2017-08-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ^ Kelly, Hillary (1 March 2019). "The Bookstore That Became the Face of a Movement". Vulture. Retrieved 3 September 2022.