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 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!
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.
Phinney Books is the neighborhood bookstore for Phinney Ridge/Greenwood in north Seattle, offering a wide selection of new books for adults and kids.
East West Bookshop offers resources for conscious living with books, products and programs on spiritual traditions and insights from around the world.
Publisher of the World’s Greatest Cartoonists since 1976.
Fantagraphics publishes a wide variety of classic, independent, alternative, underground, and lesser known comics, as well as retrospectives and prose fiction.
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
Seattle’s premier independent bookshop specializing in children’s books since 1977. Reading and recommending books for everyone else, too, since 2000.
Classic cocktails, high end whisk(e)y, craft brew and comfort food.
Independent book store. Serving the UW community since 1900. Shop independent, be independent.
Serving Lower Queen Anne/Seattle as an independent, general stock, used bookstore.
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.
Need a new hobby? Head on over to Lion Heart Book Store in Seattle and try out reading.
If you are visiting Lion Heart Book Store, you can take advantage of the nearby parking options during your stay. Lion Heart Book Store makes bikers feel at ease with the multiple storage racks outside. New books are exciting and filled with adventure so pick one up today from Lion Heart Book Store in Seattle and start reading.
The Globe offers books of good value, new and used, in the arts and sciences. Strengths include literature, history, children’s titles, and cooking. Owned and operated by Carolyn and John Siscoe since 1979, the Globe is open from ten to six, seven days a week.
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.
For Mystery Lovers Who Know What They Want, And For Those Who Haven’t A Clue.
We are a local company specializing in recovery literature, as well as fun jewelry and accessories in celebration of recovery!
We specialize in children’s books and have an espresso café. Additionally, we carry an assortment of books for young adult to adult readers. Our café is typically stocked with cookies, cold beverages, and all the necessary ingredients for a good espresso.
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.
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.
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.