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

Name ! Country ! Location(s) ! Notes
class="wikitable sortable"
Foreign Language Bookshop	{{flag\|Australia}}	Melbourne
Aqua Books	{{flag\|Canada}}	Winnipeg, Manitoba	(defunct)
Attic Books	{{flag\|Canada}}	London, Ontario
Bakka-Phoenix	{{flag\|Canada}}	Toronto, Ontario
Bison Books	{{flag\|Canada}}	Winnipeg, Manitoba
Book City	{{flag\|Canada}}	Toronto, Ontario
The Book Room	{{flag\|Canada}}	Halifax, Nova Scotia	was, at the time of its 2008 closing, the oldest bookstore in Canada (defunct)
Camas Bookstore and Infoshop	{{flag\|Canada}}	Victoria, British Columbia
Common Woman Books	{{flag\|Canada}}		(feminist, defunct)
Glad Day Bookshop	{{flag\|Canada}}	Toronto, Ontario
Highway Book Shop	{{flag\|Canada}}	Cobalt, Ontario	(defunct)
Hyman's Book and Art Shoppe	{{flag\|Canada}}		independent Jewish bookstore in Toronto, Ontario (defunct)
Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium	{{flag\|Canada}}	Vancouver, British Columbia
McNally Robinson	{{flag\|Canada}}		small independently run chain of stores across Canada
Mondragon Bookstore & Coffeehouse	{{flag\|Canada}}	Winnipeg, Manitoba	(defunct)
The Monkey's Paw	{{flag\|Canada}}	Toronto, Ontario
Munro's Books	{{flag\|Canada}}	Victoria, British Columbia
Spartacus Books	{{flag\|Canada}}	Vancouver, British Columbia
This Ain't the Rosedale Library	{{flag\|Canada}}	Toronto, Ontario	(defunct)
Toronto Women's Bookstore	{{flag\|Canada}}	Toronto, Ontario	(defunct)
The Word Bookstore	{{flag\|Canada}}	Montreal
José Corti	{{flag\|France}}	Paris
Shakespeare and Company	{{flag\|France}}	Paris
BuchGourmet	{{flag\|Germany}}	Cologne
Atuagkat Bookstore	{{flag\|Greenland}}	Nuuk
An Ceathrú Póilí	{{flag\|Ireland}}	Belfast
Sefer ve Sefel	{{flag\|Israel}}	Jerusalem
Al-Jahith's Treasury	{{flag\|Jordan}}
Solidaridad book shop	{{flag\|Philippines}}	Ermita district of Manila{{cite news\|url=http://www.philstar.com/young-star/136569/review-different-bookstore-dymocks-la-solidaridad-filipino-bookstore\|title=Review: A Different Bookstore, Dymocks, La Solidaridad, Filipino Bookstore\|date=October 13, 2001\|newspaper=The Philippine Inquirer}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.wheninmanila.com/solidaridad-a-gem-of-a-bookstore\|title=Solidaridad: A Gem of a Bookstore\|date=March 18, 2014\|publisher=wheninmanila.com}}
BooksActually	{{flag\|Singapore}}	Tiong Bahru{{Cite web\|url=https://www.travelfish.org/sight_profile/singapore/central_region/central_area/downtown_singapore/2608\|title=Singapore's best independent bookstores\|website=Travelfish}}{{cite news\|url=http://articles.stclassifieds.sg/business-advice/booksactually-twists-plot-to-create-success/a/53382\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216041714/http://articles.stclassifieds.sg/business-advice/booksactually-twists-plot-to-create-success/a/53382\|archivedate=February 16, 2015\|title=BooksActually twists plot to create success\|date=March 14, 2012\|newspaper=The Straits Times\|via=stclassifieds.sg}}
Clarke's Bookshop \|{{flag\|South Africa}} \|Cape Town \|
Fascination Books{{Cite web\|url=http://www.fin24.com/Companies/Book-chain-closes-doors-20081028\|title=Book chain closes doors: Fin24: Companies\|date=2011-07-11\|access-date=2017-08-31\|url-status=bot: unknown\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711003053/http://www.fin24.com/Companies/Book-chain-closes-doors-20081028\|archivedate=2011-07-11}}	{{flag\|South Africa}}		(defunct)
An Ceathrú Póilí	{{flag\|United Kingdom}}	Belfast
Arthur Probsthain	{{flag\|United Kingdom}}	London
Barter Books	{{flag\|United Kingdom}}	Alnwick Station, Northumberland
Compendium Books	{{flag\|United Kingdom}}	London
Daunt Books	{{flag\|United Kingdom}}	London
Grass Roots Books	{{flag\|United Kingdom}}
Housmans	{{flag\|United Kingdom}}	London
Silver Moon Bookshop	{{flag\|United Kingdom}}		(defunct)
The Second Shelf	{{flag\|United Kingdom}}	London{{Cite news \|last=Kelly \|first=Hillary \|date=1 March 2019 \|title=The Bookstore That Became the Face of a Movement \|work=Vulture \|url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/03/the-second-shelf-allison-devers-profile.html \|access-date=3 September 2022}}
Stanfords	{{flag\|United Kingdom}}	London

United States

References

List of independent bookstores

Outside the United States

United States

See also

References