Listings for independent bookshops in the UK, some with online ordering

The Guardian’s list of Best UK Bookshops

Listings for independent bookshops in the US, some with online ordering. Also try BookSense.

Some favourites:


U.K.

London Review Bookshop — Bloomsbury, London

Foyles — Charing Cross, London (Not exactly a quaint village shop, but a booklovers cabinet of wonders, and a London institution)

The Bookseller Crow on the Hill — Crystal Palace, London

The Owl Bookshop — Kentish Town, London
(no website, but worth a trip, and I don’t say that just because I gave my first reading there.)
209 Kentish Town Road, NW5 2JU
020 7485 7793

Kew Bookshop — Kew, London

Daunt Books — Marylebone, London (also the Hampstead branch)

QI Bookshop — Oxford


U.S.

Malaprops Bookstore & Café — Asheville, NC

Bookpeople — Austin, TX

The Concord Bookshop — Concord, MA

Just Books — Greenwich, CT

Shakespeare & Co. Booksellers — New York, NY

Four Seasons Books — Shepherdstown, West Virginia

Politics and Prose Bookstore & Coffehouse — Washington, DC