Literary Site Type: Indie Bookstore

Boulder Book Store is the largest independent bookstore in Boulder, Colorado. It hosts more than two hundred events every year. Authors who have visited over the years include Christopher Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, Deepak Chopra, Garrison Keillor, Jon Krakauer, Mitch Albom, David Sedaris, Elizabeth Gilbert, Michael Pollan, Chelsea Handler, Neil Gaiman, and Terry Prachett.

Mac’s Backs-Books is a neighborhood bookstore and book exchange with three floors of new and used books and magazines. It hosts readings, book signings, author events, book clubs, and writing workshops. A member of IndieBound, a nonprofit organization serving independent and community bookstores, it also provides a free community meeting space for groups and organizations.

The Moravian Book Shop, the oldest bookstore in the world, was founded in 1745 when the Moravian Church appointed Samuel Powell of the Church’s Crown Inn on the South Side of the Lehigh River to operate a bookstore. After several locations, the Moravian Book Shop was moved to the church’s publications building near the Central Moravian Church in 1871. Today, the Moravian Book Shop’s home is this same site on Historic Main Street in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Liberty Bay Books was established in 1977 and was purchased by children’s authors, Suzanne Selfors and Walker Ranson in 2020. The store carries new books with a strong focus on the Pacific Northwest. They also have a large Nordic section.