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.
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.
Phinney Books is the neighborhood bookstore for Phinney Ridge/Greenwood in north Seattle, offering a wide selection of new books for adults and kids.
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.
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
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.
Independent book store. Serving the UW community since 1900. Shop independent, be independent.
Amazon Books in University Village, Seattle, is a physical extension of Amazon.com. We’ve applied 20 years of online bookselling experience to build a store that integrates the benefits of offline and online book shopping. The books in our store are selected based on Amazon.com customer ratings, pre-orders, sales, popularity on Goodreads, and our curators’ assessments. These are fantastic books! Most have been rated 4 stars or above, and many are award winners.
Queen Anne Book Company – providing all things books to all readers.
Located in the historic Pike Place Market since 2003, Lamplight is one of the more eclectic independent used bookstores in Seattle.
Located in Seattle’s University District since 1978, Magus is one of the oldest and largest independent used bookstores in the city.
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.
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!
A collection of over 16,000 items focusing on alternative, controversial and mind-opening subjects not normally found in public and academic libraries.
East West Bookshop offers resources for conscious living with books, products and programs on spiritual traditions and insights from around the world.
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.
Seattle’s premier independent bookshop specializing in children’s books since 1977. Reading and recommending books for everyone else, too, since 2000.
Books, toys, crafts and more for both adults and children. Home of Georgian Wood Toys.
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!
Left Bank Books carries over 10,000 new and used books, and has close to 70 sections. We specialize in anti-authoritarian, anarchist, independent, radical and small-press titles. Our interests span the literary & scholarly spectrum. Our stock reflects the diversity in perspective of all the individuals involved in our book project. We feature various sections such as anarchism, fiction, feminist studies, immigration studies, race & culture studies, “dis”ability & Deafness, poetry, graphic novels, parenting, labor history, science fiction, sexuality, environmentalism, native studies and much more.