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.

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Australia

• Foreign Language Bookshop, Melbourne
• Robinsons Bookshop, Victoria[1]
• TLC Books, Brisbane

Canada

• Aqua Books in Winnipeg, Manitoba (defunct)
• Attic Books in London, Ontario
• Bakka-Phoenix in Toronto, Ontario
• Bison Books in Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Book City in Toronto, Ontario
• The Bookshelf in Guelph, Ontario est. 1973
• The Book Room in Halifax, Nova Scotia was, at the time of its 2008 closing, the oldest bookstore in Canada (defunct)
• Camas Bookstore and Infoshop in Victoria, British Columbia
• Encore Books in Montreal
• Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto, Ontario
• Highway Book Shop near Cobalt, Ontario (defunct)
• Hyman's Book and Art Shoppe, independent Jewish bookstore in Toronto, Ontario (defunct)
• Insoumise bookstore, independent anarchist bookstore in Montreal
• Librairie Raffin, small independently run chain located in Quebec and specializing in French language books
• Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium in Vancouver, British Columbia
• McNally Robinson, small independently run chain of stores across Canada
• Mondragon Bookstore & Coffeehouse in Winnipeg, Manitoba (defunct)
• The Monkey's Paw in Toronto, Ontario
• Munro's Books in Victoria, British Columbia
• Novel Idea in Kingston, Ontario
• Spartacus Books in Vancouver, British Columbia
• S W Welch Bookseller in Montreal
• This Ain't the Rosedale Library in Toronto, Ontario (defunct)
• Toronto Women's Bookstore in Toronto, Ontario (defunct)
• The Word Bookstore in Montreal
• Words Worth Books in Waterloo, Ontario

France

• José Corti in Paris
• Shakespeare and Company in Paris

Germany

• BuchGourmet in Cologne

Greenland

• Atuagkat Bookstore in Nuuk

Israel

• Sefer ve Sefel, Jerusalem

Jordan

• Al-Jahith's Treasury

Philippines

• Solidaridad book shop in the Ermita district of Manila[2][3]

Singapore

• BooksActually in Tiong Bahru[4][5]

United Kingdom

• Red Haus Books in Sheffield
• An Ceathrú Póilí in Belfast
• Arthur Probsthain in London
• Barter Books in Alnwick Station, Northumberland
• Blackwell's in Oxford
• Compendium Books in London
• Daunt Books in London
• Foyles of London
• Stanfords in London
• Lighthouse Radical Bookshop in Edinburgh[6]
• Golden Hare Books in Edinburgh[7][8]
• The Edinburgh Bookshop in Edinburgh[9]

United States

Main article: List of independent bookstores in the United States

See also

• List of bookstore chains

References

1. "Robinsons Bookshop". Robinsons Bookshop Online Bookstore.
2. "Review: A Different Bookstore, Dymocks, La Solidaridad, Filipino Bookstore". The Philippine Inquirer. October 13, 2001.
3. "Solidaridad: A Gem of a Bookstore". wheninmanila.com. March 18, 2014.
4. "Singapore's best independent bookstores". Travelfish.
5. "BooksActually twists plot to create success". The Straits Times. March 14, 2012. Archived from the original on February 16, 2015 – via stclassifieds.sg.
6. "Lighthouse". www.lighthousebookshop.com.
7. https://www.theliterarysalon.co.uk/goldenharebooks
8. "Independent bookshop Edinburgh". Golden Hare Books.
9. "home". Edinburgh Bookshop.