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Beckham's Bookshop has been selling secondhand books in the French Quarter since 1967. The two-story shop contains fifty to sixty thousand books, and places a particular emphasis on histories, architecture, literature, music, and cooking.
Arcadian Books & Prints is a small bookshop in the French Quarter owned by Russell Desmond and stocked with volumes of Southern literature and history, available in both French and English.
Established in 1990, Beat Book Shop specializes in “all things American or surreal—or both.” The shop also sells used records and books on music.
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.
Books & Books is an independent, locally owned bookstore with three locations in South Florida, plus stores in Grand Cayman, Westhampton Beach, and the Miami International Airport. Books & Books Coral Gables is a local landmark and a gathering place for writers as well as readers, hosting sixty author events a month, and featuring a carefully curated selection.
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.
Cellar Door Books is an independent and locally owned bookstore for all ages in the Canyon Crest Town Center in Riverside, California. Cellar Door Books sponsors storytimes, book clubs, puppet shows, writing groups, many, many authors, and a welcoming staff that really knows books.
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.
Imprint Bookstore has been serving Port Townsend, Washington—a Victorian seaport along the Salish Sea—for nearly 50 years. They offer writing workshops, the occasional reading, and of course, loads of book recommendations.
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.
