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. The Bookends Review University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 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). Contributing writer for Chicago Review of Books. Bookstores From national bestsellers to regional writers and rare editions, find your own Asheville storyor event meet a favorite authoramong the shelves of a local, independent bookstore. 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. There’s a Country Bookseller in Wolfebore, NH. 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). Here we primarily list the more esoteric and scarce titles. Note: most of our books in the bookstore are not on this website. 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). We are open 12-5 Wednesday-Monday (closed Tuesday). 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). 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). 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?
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