Following the first store in San Francisco in 1969, the New York City store in Rockefeller Center opened in 1981. It was replaced by its current location near Bryant Park on 6th Avenue in 2007. The New York store became the headquarters of Kinokuniya Book Stores of America. The company now has seven store locations in the United States, including New York City, San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, Costa Mesa, Seattle, and Portland. Each store offers a large range of books in English, Japanese and Chinese, as well as CDs, DVDs, and high quality stationary. In addition to bookstores, Kinokuniya operates sales offices which provide services to business and academic institutions.
We are an independent general bookstore serving the local community since 1992. We offer a thoughtfully chosen selection of books for all ages, and a surprising depth of inventory that will keep you interested but never overwhelmed.
Book Larder opened on October 12, 2011, offering a carefully selected collection of new, collectible, and imported cookbooks to lovers of food and cooking in Seattle and beyond. We are also a spot to gather for author events, cooking classes, demonstrations and other food related discussions, both formal and informal. When you visit, we hope you’ll linger over titles that catch your fancy, and make yourself at home around our big kitchen counter.
Located in the historic Pike Place Market since 2003, Lamplight is one of the more eclectic independent used bookstores in Seattle.
Located in the heart of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, The Elliott Bay Book Company is a full-service bookstore, home to over 150,000 titles, set on cedar shelves in a multi-level, inviting unique atmosphere.
We offer one of the region’s best selection of new books, as well as a large collection of bargain editions. Elliott Bay presents an unparalleled schedule of author readings and events throughout the year.
The Quest Bookshop is a service of the Theosophical Society in Seattle, located in the Capital Hill neighborhood of Seattle, offering thousands of titles, including books, CDs and DVDs.
Classic cocktails, high end whisk(e)y, craft brew and comfort food.
Welcome to Arundel Books, offering rare, antiquarian and fine books for readers and collectors. Our Seattle store is located in historic Pioneer Square (between Washington and Main). Our store has an independent mindset, and a select, diverse stock that is constantly changing and growing. In addition to the books displayed in our retail store, we have well over 100,000 books available for sale from our internet bookstore. No matter where you order from, we can assure you that your order will be handled promptly and professionally, and that we pack and ship every order with care.
The nation’s largest retail bookseller and a leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products.
Queen Anne Book Company – providing all things books to all readers.
Collins Books specializes in out-of-print, hard to find scholarly books in all fields, with special emphasis on history, art and anthropology of the world.
We’ve got hundreds of titles all related to just one all-time best-seller: The Bible.
A collection of over 16,000 items focusing on alternative, controversial and mind-opening subjects not normally found in public and academic libraries.
Ada’s Technical Books & Café is where the technical mind finds what it craves.
And where a bookstore becomes a community.
Our store sits in Capitol Hill, Seattle. And is home to the kinds of books, gifts, workshops and events, that beckon to the geek {and the geek in all of us.}
Because we believe in never-ending learning, evolving, and collaboration, {and hanging out while doing it.}
So you can find the knowledge you seek, feed your curiosity among friends, and always feel in your element.
– Danielle & David Hulton, forever geeks and founders
Independent book store. Serving the UW community since 1900. Shop independent, be independent.
We are a local, independent Used and New Bookstore,Cafe, and a Performance and Community Gathering Space: New and Used Books, Homemade Baked Food, Coffee,Drinks–including Beer and Wine. Visual Art, and Open Mics, Poetry and Book Reading, Live Acoustic Music featuring original and traditional music from local musicians, and Meetings, and More!
Our 500-square-foot shop is brimming with over 10,000 new, used, and out-of-print poetry books, as well as a selection of titles about poetry. You’ll find a broad range of volumes on our shelves, from the experimental work of Bhanu Kapil to the fragments of Sappho (in several translations), from the latest Tony Hoagland collection to the writings of John Clare. We order from publishers huge, tiny, and in between and select worthwhile used books to maintain what we hope is a continually varied and interesting stock.
Pegasus is a family-owned used and new bookstore in West Seattle, under its current ownership since 1983. We have large selections of mystery, science fiction/fantasy, horror, literature/classics, children’s, young adult, romance, poetry, history, gardening, crafts, spirituality, psychology, philosophy, cookbooks, health, travel and tons of other things!
Seattle’s premier independent bookshop specializing in children’s books since 1977. Reading and recommending books for everyone else, too, since 2000.
Episcopal Bookstore offers books, lectionary and liturgy resources, gifts, church supplies, calendars, rosaries and prayer beads, and more. We are a family-owned independent bookstore located in Seattle. We specialize in meeting the needs of the liturgical Christian book reader, from many religious denominations.