With the help of our members, we put together a list of bookstores and newsstands 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 thirty-nine states, as well as DC and Canada, and they range from nationally recognized indie bookstore landmarks to smaller, newly opened stores.
(last updated August 2026)
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 | |
A Cappella Books | |
Charis Books | |
Pretty Good Books |
Hawaiʻi | |
Basically Books | |
Native Books: Arts & Letters | |
da Shop: books + curiosities |
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 | |
Atomic Books | |
The Ivy Bookshop |
Massachusetts | |
Amherst Books | |
Brookline Booksmith | |
Porter Square Books | |
Book Moon | |
The Bookstore | |
Broadside Bookshop | |
East End Books |
Michigan | |
Literati Bookstore | |
Periodicals | |
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 |
 | Casa |
 | 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 |
 | Rough Draft Bar & 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 |
Oregon | |
 | Annie Bloom’s Books |
 | The City Reader |
 | 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 |
 | Commonplace Reader |
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 |
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 |
 | Bulldog News |
 | Elliott Bay Book Company |
 | Open Books |
Washington, D.C. | |
Lost City Books | |
Loyalty Bookstores |
Wisconsin | |
 | Boswell Book Company |
 | Lion’s Tooth |
 | Niche Book Bar |
 | Woodland Pattern Book Center |
Canada | |
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly |
Pop-Up | |
Duende District |
