- 2025 Dec 12
Bookshop-Bar Opens in Long Island
The Bookstore, a “bartender co-op” in Patchogue, offers both booze and books.
Baltimore Bookstore Promotes Literacy
Urban Reads Bookstore has hit the road with a mobile library.
- 2025 Dec 11
James Patterson’s Holiday Tradition
The author has distributed $300,000 in holiday bonuses to 600 indie booksellers across the country.
Connecticut B&N Unionizes
Members of UFCW Local 919 who work at Barnes & Noble in North Haven unanimously ratified their first union contract.
Florida Feels the Love
Love Story Book Co. has opened in Tallahassee’s Mahan Square Shopping Center.
- 2025 Dec 10
New Indie Heads to North Carolina
Floodplain Books is slated to open in Wilmington next year.
Michigan Bookstore Goes Digital
Comma Bookstore & Social Hub will shutter its brick-and-mortar location in Flint, transitioning to an online storefront.
Ohio Bookstore Expands
Birch Tree Bookery, the first indie bookshop in Marion, has opened a second location in Bucyrus.
Iowa’s Newest Bookshop-Cafe Combo
I’ll Meet You There has opened its doors in Cedar Rapids.
- 2025 Dec 09
LGBTQ Bookshop Lands in Atlanta
Two Best Friends Café & Books has opened in the city’s Castleberry Hills neighborhood.
- 2025 Dec 08
Cleveland’s First Children’s Bookshop
The Wandering Lantern has opened in the city’s Lakewood suburb.
Maryland’s Newest Bookstore
Lily Books & Café opened last week in downtown Cumberland.
Missouri Comic Bookshop’s New Chapter
Betty’s Books has reopened in St. Louis County.
- 2025 Dec 05
Binc to Offer ComicsPRO Scholarships
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation will double the number of scholarships it offers for comic store owners and their employees to attend the ComicsPRO industry meeting in Glendale, Calif., held February 18-21.
NYC’s First Fantasy Bookshop
Love & Legends Books opened in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighborhood last month.
New Bookstore Blooms in Upstate N.Y.
Botanica Books has landed in Saratoga Springs.
Wisconsin’s Newest Indie
The Nerdy Word will host its grand opening in Union Grove this weekend.
- 2025 Dec 04
New Bookshop Lands in Ohio
Escape into Fiction opened earlier this fall in Powell.
Kansas City Bookstore to Shutter
Afterword Tavern & Shelves is slated to close in January.
Florida Gets a New Bookstore
No Shelf Control bookshop recently opened its doors in St. Augustine.
- 2025 Dec 03
Kansas Bookshop Changes Hands
Hedgehog.INK Bookstore in Fort Scott was sold to new owners this week.
Black-Owned Bookstore Lands in Chicago
Honey And Hue will offer books by BIPOC authors in the city’s Beverly neighborhood.
- 2025 Dec 02
Indie Bookstore Lands in San Diego
Library Shop Mission Hills opened its doors earlier this week.
North Carolina’s Newest Bookshop
Main & Mountain Bookstore opened last weekend in downtown Kernersville.
- 2025 Dec 01
New Indie Lands in North Carolina
Main & Mountain Bookstore opened in downtown Kernersville over the weekend.
New Missouri Store Breaks Down Barriers
The Littlest Library, Kansas City’s first Latina-owned bookstore, offers titles in English and Spanish.
Arkansas Bookstore Changes Hands
Kristin Tardif, a professor at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, is the new owner of Bookish in Fort Smith.
Comics Store, Bookstore to Open in Maine
Comic Shop News and Bookish will soon set up shop in downtown Skowhegan.
- 2025 Nov 26
Romance Pop-Up to Land in California
A Novel Affair will open its doors this weekend in downtown Los Altos.
Ohio Record Store Gets Bookish
Blackbird Records in Mansfield will launch Blackbird Books this week.
- 2025 Nov 25
Rhode Island’s Newest Bookstore
Forget Me Not Fables Bookshop is set to open soon in North Providence.
- 2025 Nov 24
Oklahoma’s Newest Attraction
Tulsa-based Art Deco museum Decopolis has opened a second location that includes an onsite bookseller, FableRealm Bookstore, focused on fantasy and romantasy.
South Carolina Gets Sweet
The Bluffton Bookshop will open in Bluffton next year, and will feature a dessert parlor alongside its books.
Romance Bookshop to Land in Michigan
Dust & Blush Bookshop will open its doors in downtown Boyne City next spring.
- 2025 Nov 21
Barnes & Noble Returns to Brooklyn
The chain has reopened its Park Slope location following a four-month renovation.
- 2025 Nov 20
Minnesota’s Second Romance-Only Bookshop
Hey Darling has landed in Austin.
Brooklyn’s Haven for Romantasy
Love and Legends, which started as a pop-up shop earlier this year, will open in Prospect Heights this weekend.
Wisconsin Paper Mill Turns Bookish
The Flora Shelves, a bookshop and flower boutique, will take over an old paper mill in Appleton this winter.
Ohio’s Newest Romance Bookstore
Forced Proximity opened in Findlay earlier this month.
- 2025 Nov 19
Michigan Bookshop’s Thanksgiving Feast
The Folded Leaf in Cedar will be offering fully prepared Thanksgiving meals to the local community next week.
North Carolina Bookstore on the Move
The Lazy Daisy Bookshop in Jacksonville will soon move to a larger location, featuring a new cafe area.
- 2025 Nov 18
Mobile Bookshop Travels the Country
St. Rita’s Traveling Bookstore, helmed by a 70-year-old, has been rolling through the U.S. since 2015.
Design-Focused Bookshop Lands in Dallas
Bird’s Bookstore offers art books, artisanal gifts, and coffee.
- 2025 Nov 17
Chicago Indie to Close
Citing competition from a Barnes & Noble outlet that opened two blocks away last fall, Volumes BookCafe in Chicago announced that it will shutter in January.
Massachusetts Bookstore Emerges
Turtle Books opened in Brookline Village this past weekend.
New Bookshop Comes to Tennessee
Inklings Bookstore has opened its doors in Cleveland.
Spotlight on Kansas Indie
Rainy Day Books in Fairway is celebrating 50 years in business.
Missouri Bookstore Goes to the Movies
BookMarx in Springfield will be adding video rentals to its used book offerings next year.
- 2025 Nov 14
Idaho Gets Brave
Brave Seeker Books opened earlier this week in Rexburg.
Connecticut Mainstay to Shutter
Bloodroot, a feminist café and bookstore in Bridgeport, will close its doors after 50 years in business.
West Virginia’s Newest Bookstore
Volume Bookshop & Studio will hold its grand opening next week in downtown Buckhannon.
- 2025 Nov 13
Chicago’s Newest Black-Owned Bookstore
Honey and Hue will host its grand opening this weekend.
New Bookshop Comes to Missouri
The Story House Bookstore will open in Springfield ahead of the holidays.
New Connecticut Bookstore Thrives
The Blush Book Lounge has already attracted a crowd of customers throughout its first week open in Shelton.
Kentucky Feels the Love
Romance bookstore Poor Charlotte recently opened in Covington.
- 2025 Nov 12
Pennsylvania’s Newest Indie
Bound Books has opened in downtown York.
Mobile Bookstore Hits the Road in Texas
Enchanted Chapters offers up romantasy and more while rolling through the greater Houston area.
Michigan Bookshop’s Last Hurrah
After shuttering in February, Kalamazoo’s Michigan News Agency will open its doors later this month for one final book sale.
Smooth Sailing for Louisiana Bookstore
A sailor has bought the Book Sack in Slidell, saving it from closure.
- 2025 Nov 11
Texas’s Newest Indie
Books & More recently opened in Missouri City.
Idaho Gets Spicy
Between the Covers, a new romance bookstore, will open in Rigby at the end of the month.
Cleveland Bookshop Relocates
Visible Voice Books will open the doors to its new storefront later this week.
Spotlight on Black-Owned Mobile Bookshop
The Lit Twis’t has hit the road in Phoenix and is the city’s only Black woman–owned mobile bookstore.
- 2025 Nov 10
Rhode Island’s First Romance Bookstore
The Little Bubblegum Bookshop opened in Fox Point last month.
North Carolina’s Newest Bookshop
Wallflower Book Co. opened its doors in Walnut Cove this past weekend.
Chicago Book Lovers Hit the Road
The inaugural Chicagoland Bookstore Trolley will shuttle riders to more than 40 indie bookstores around the city this holiday season.
Bookstore Lands in Georgia
Spellbound Bookshop will open in LaGrange later this month.
Mobile Bookstore Traverses Virginia
Dead Petals Press will be making stops and selling books throughout the Chesapeake area.
- 2025 Nov 07
B&N to Land in Seattle
Barnes & Noble will return to downtown Seattle this spring after shuttering in 2020.
Cleveland’s Newest Romantasy Bookshop
Parallel Universe has opened in the city’s Hingetown Hangars.
- 2025 Nov 06
Indies Combat Hunger
A number of independent bookstores across the country are working to ensure their communities have food amid the government shutdown’s effects on SNAP benefits.
North Carolina Gets a New Bookstore
Bound and Vine, a bookshop–wine bar with “a slight romantasy emphasis,” is set to open in Fayetteville later this month.
Romance Bookshop Lands in Georgia
Morally Gray opened last month in downtown Newnan.
- 2025 Nov 05
Boozy Bookshop Sails into Tennessee
The Raven will open in Brentwood later this year, serving up wine and books.
New Bookstore Comes to Florida
The Book Lounge will open in St. Petersburg this weekend.
D.C.’s Only Queer Bookshop Levels Up
Little District Books relocated into a larger space last month.
- 2025 Nov 04
New Bookshop Lands in South Carolina
Ladybird Books has opened in Charleston.
Texas Bookstore Expands
Talking Animal Books has opened a second location in Grapevine.
Massachusetts Bookstore Feels the Love
Locals formed a human chain to move 8,000 books for Ten Trees Books as it relocated to its new storefront in Natick.
- 2025 Nov 03
Washington’s Newest Bookshop
Seekers Bookshop hosted its soft opening this past weekend in Colville.
Ohio Bookstore Moves
Nature + Nurture in Salem will relocate into a space double the size in the coming months.
Oregon Bookshop Prepares to Shutter
The Nye Beach Book House, the only bookstore in Newport, is set to close later this month.
- 2025 Oct 31
Bookshop to Bloom in Wisconsin
The Flora Shelves will open in Appleton in early 2026, combining a bookstore and a floral studio.
South Carolina Feels the Love
Love Spell Books has opened in Charleston.
Romance Bookstore Lands in Florida
Steamy Lit has landed in Fort Lauderdale.
- 2025 Oct 30
California Bookshop Goes to Market
Industry veterans John Evans and Alison Reid are selling Camino Books in Del Mar after 36 years.
Nebraska Bookstore Rebuilds
Following extensive damage from a summer storm, Chapters Books and Gifts in Seward is now breaking ground on its rebuild.
Philadelphia Gets Spooky
Thrillerdelphia will host its soft opening in the city’s Manayunk neighborhood on Halloween.
Seattle’s Newest Romance Bookstore
Swoon City will open in the city’s Ballard neighborhood this weekend.
- 2025 Oct 29
Nebraska Bookstore Lends a Hand
Sower Books in Lincoln is currently accepting donations of food and personal care items to distribute to community members amid the government shutdown.
Memphis Bookshop Toasts to 150 Years
Burke’s Book Store celebrated its 150th anniversary with champagne, two sheet cakes, and a crowd of locals.
- 2025 Oct 28
Musical Bookshop Opens in Massachusetts
Indie Readery & Records opened its doors in Pittsfield last week.
Cafe-Bookstore to Land in Virginia
Daydrift Books & Cafe is opening in Arlington’s Crystal City neighborhood next week.
North Dakota Bookstore Reinvents
Ferguson Books in Fargo has been rebranded as Fergie’s Bookshop following its move into a local grocery store.
- 2025 Oct 27
L.A. Bookshop Teams With Local News Site
Chevalier’s Books, the city’s oldest indie bookstore, has joined forces with the Larchmont Buzz to increase community engagement.
Alabama Bookshop to Expand
Thank You Books in Birmingham is set to relocate to a bigger space in 2026.
Pennsylvania Bookshop to Close
The Wandering Soul in Sharon is slated to shutter next month.
- 2025 Oct 24
Latino Bookstore to Land in Texas
Dreamers Books and Culture will open in Houston this weekend.
- 2025 Oct 23
San Francisco Bookshop Stands Tall
City Lights Bookstore has raised banners decrying authoritarianism in response to the Trump administration announcing that federal agents were being sent to the Bay Area.
- 2025 Oct 22
Pasadena Bookshop Signs Long-Term Lease
Vroman’s Bookstore, the oldest bookstore in Southern California, has signed a new lease after selling the site of its Playhouse Village location.



