Literary Site Type: Indie Bookstore

Portsmouth Book & Bar is a full service restaurant, bar, and live entertainment venue tucked inside a bookstore in the heart of downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The kitchen offers a full menu and the bar has a wide selection of signature cocktails, beer, wine, coffee, and tea. Live entertainment includes regional music acts, poetry readings, comedy, open mic nights, and a variety of community events.

Opened in 2017, Zenith Bookstore is a community bookstore in Duluth, Minnesota. The store has partnerships with schools, nonprofits, and local businesses, and offers discounts to educators, book clubs, and community partners. Author events are held in the bookstore throughout the year and new works by local authors are featured prominently. Known for a large and diverse collection of new and gently used books, the store also stocks bookish gifts—from buttons to socks and greeting cards to puzzles. 

Troubled Sleep, a name shared with a novel by Jean-Paul Sartre, is a new and used bookstore located in the historic district of Park Slope in Brooklyn, New York. The store carries a wide variety of quality books at low prices and specializes in literary fiction both classic and contemporary. They also carry drama, poetry, and smaller sections of New York City history, art, architecture, and kids’ books. The shop is lined with nearly floor-to-ceiling wooden bookcases and has eye-catching mosaic tiles on the floor. It is open seven days a week.

leaves is an independent, second-hand bookstore. It is a community-oriented project committed to sustainability and affordability.

It carries all genres of books ranging in price from one dollar to many thousands. Their website is dedicated to rare, collectible, and out of print selections. For discount books and reading copies, visit their store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.