The Elephant’s Trunk Children’s Bookshop (Lexington, MA)ĩ. Those are all fine establishments-and we at the Why Not 100 say support your local independent bookstore, whatever the name! But the following happen to be our 89 favorite names for indie outlets:Ĥ. Or you just combine the color and the creature: Blue Manatee (Cincinnati, OH)

Colors, too, are popular-the more incongruous the better. There’s a Nightbird Books (Denver, CO), Mockingbird Books (Seattle, WA), The Raven Book Store (Lawrence, NY), Toadstool Bookshop (Milford, NH), Turtle Town Books (Nisswa, MN), Beagle Books (Park Rapids, MN), even Pegasus Books (Oakland, CA). Animal references are a common source, particularly for children’s bookstores. If practicality or reading references aren’t the aim, proprietors of the published often hope to convey a certain charm, a sense of whimsy. And a Country Bookshop in charming Southern Pines, NC. Located just inside Pack Memorial Library in downtown Asheville, it’s open during regular library hours. There’s a Country Bookseller in Wolfebore, NH. Bookends is a used bookstore managed by Friends of Pack Library volunteers. There’s a Reader’s Loft (Green Way, WI), a Reader’s Corner (Louisville, KY) and a Literary Bookpost (Salisbury, NC). You’ll come across Chapter One (in both Ketchum, ID and Hamilton, MT), The Second Story (Laramie, WY), The Golden Notebook (Woodstock, NY) and Summer’s Stories (Kendallville, IN).

Of course, you’ll also find references like Page One Bookstore (Albuequerque, NM), Turning Pages (Natchez, MS), The Next Page (Frisco, CO), and Back Pages Books (Waltham, MA). Oh, and Books and Cookies (Santa Monica, CA). Not to mention Bookin’ It (Little Falls, N) and Books to be Red (Ocracoke, NC) and Bookends (Ridgewood, NJ) and BookNest (Blairtown, NJ). See more of Bookends Used Book Store at Pack Library - Asheville, NC on Facebook. There are stores out there-or least at last check in these volatile times, there were stores out there-named The Book Barn (Leavenworth, KS), Book Stop (Hood River, OR), Book Cove (Pawling, NY), Book Mine (Leadville, CO), Book Vine (Cherokee, IA), Book Parlor (Burns, OR), Book Vault (Oskaloosa, AL), Book Shelf (Winona, MN), Book Bin (Onley, VA), and Book Nook (Brenham, TX). See more of Bookends Used Book Store at Pack Library - Asheville. Never judge a book by its cover, but how about a bookstore? Shouldn’t a repository of creativity boast a creative name of its own? Our searchable map of indie bookstores participating in Indie Bookstore Day.

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