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

• Companies portal
• Books portal

• Independent bookstore
• List of bookstore chains

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.