With the help of our members, we put together a list of bookstores that do an especially good job carrying and supporting the work of independent literary publishers. The 100+ bookstores on this list—each of them recommended by CLMP member presses and magazines—are from 36 states, as well as DC and Canada, and they range from nationally recognized indie bookstore fixtures to smaller, newly opened stores.
(last updated April 2025)
Alabama | |
 | Thank You Bookshop |
Ernest & Hadley Booksellers |
 | The Haunted Book Shop |
Arizona | |
Changing Hands Bookstore |
Arkansas | |
Bookish |
California | |
Laguna Beach Books | |
Other Books | |
Skylight Books | |
East Bay Booksellers | |
Point Reyes Books | |
Cellar Door Books | |
City Lights | |
Green Apple Books |
 | Medicine for Nightmares |
Chaucer’s Books | |
Bookshop Santa Cruz | |
Book Soup |
Colorado | |
Lithic Bookstore and Gallery |
Delaware | |
Browseabout Books |
Florida | |
Books & Books | |
Tombolo Books | |
Writer’s Block Bookstore |
Georgia | |
Avid Bookshop | |
A Cappella Books | |
Charis Books | |
Pretty Good Books |
Idaho | |
Bonner’s Books |
Illinois | |
The Book Cellar | |
Madison Street Books | |
The Seminary Co-op | |
Unabridged Bookstore | |
Women and Children First | |
Iowa | |
Dog-Eared Books | |
Next Page Books | |
Prairie Lights |
Kansas | |
The Raven Bookstore |
Kentucky | |
Carmichael’s |
Maine | |
Briar Patch Books | |
Longfellow Books | |
Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops |
Maryland | |
The Ivy Bookshop |
Massachusetts | |
Amherst Books | |
Brookline Booksmith | |
Porter Square Books | |
Book Moon | |
The Bookstore | |
Broadside Bookshop | |
East End Books |
Michigan | |
Literati Bookstore | |
Horizon Books |
Minnesota | |
Magers & Quinn | |
Next Chapter Booksellers |
Mississippi | |
Square Books |
Missouri | |
Left Bank Books | |
Subterranean Books |
Montana | |
Fact & Fiction | |
Shakespeare & Co. |
Nevada | |
The Writer’s Block |
New Hampshire | |
Gibson’s Bookstore | |
Water Street Bookstore | |
The Toadstool Bookshops | |
Bookery Manchester | |
MainStreet BookEnds |
New Jersey | |
[words] Bookstore | |
watchung booksellers |
New Mexico | |
Collected Works |
New York | |
 | Books Are Magic |
 | Cafe con Libros |
 | Community Bookstore |
 | Greenlight Books |
 | Unnameable Books |
 | 192 Books |
 | Book Culture |
 | McNally Jackson |
 | The Strand |
 | Three Lives & Company |
 | Word Up Community Bookshop |
 | Lift Bridge Book Shop |
 | Talking Leaves Books |
 | Battenkill Books |
 | Sulfur Books |
 | Split Rock Books |
 | Buffalo Street Books |
 | Ampersand Books |
 | Hipocampo Children’s Books |
North Carolina |
Malaprop’s | |
Epilogue Books | |
Flyleaf Books | |
Main Street Books | |
The Regulator Bookshop | |
Scuppernong Books | |
Buxton Village Books | |
Quail Ridge Books | |
So and So Books |
The Country Bookshop | |
Page 158 | |
Papercut | |
Pomegranate Books | |
Bookmarks |
Ohio | |
Downbound Books |
Oklahoma | |
Bliss Books & Bindery |
Oregon | |
 | Annie Bloom’s Books |
 | Literary Arts Bookstore |
 | Mother Foucault’s Bookshop |
 | Powell’s Books |
Pennsylvania | |
 | Big Blue Marble Bookstore |
 | Brickbat Books |
 | Harriett’s Bookshop |
 | A Novel Idea |
 | City of Asylum |
 | White Whale Bookstore |
Rhode Island | |
 | Riffraff |
South Carolina | |
Hub City Bookshop |
Tennessee | |
Parnassus Books |
Texas |
 | Black Pearl Books |
 | BookPeople |
 | BookWoman |
 | Deep Vellum Books |
 | Interabang Books |
 | The Wild Detectives |
 | Blue Willow Bookshop |
 | Brazos Bookstore |
 | Literarity Book Shop |
Utah | |
The King’s English Bookshop |
Vermont | |
 | Phoenix Bookstore |
 | Northshire Bookstore |
 | Bear Pond Books |
 | Norwich Bookstore |
 | Bartleby’s Books |
Washington | |
 | Eagle Harbor Books |
 | Village Books & Paper Dreams |
 | Elliott Bay Book Company |
 | Open Books |
Washington, D.C. | |
Loyalty Bookstores |
Wisconsin | |
 | Boswell Book Company |
 | Lion’s Tooth |
 | Niche Book Bar |
 | Woodland Pattern Book Center |
Canada | |
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly |
Pop-Up | |
Duende District |
