Reparations Club

Reparations Club is a Black-owned, woman-owned concept bookshop and creative space in Los Angeles. The independent bookshop sells a variety of books and home goods, and frequently hosts events.

Reparations Club interior with open space and wide bookshelf.

The Salt Eaters Bookshop

The Salt Eaters Bookshop is an independent bookstore in Inglewood, California prioritizing books, comics, and zines by and about Black women, girls, femmes, and gender expansive people. ​Inspired by The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara, the shop is working to create a resting ground for all, a place to come home.

The Salt Eaters interior with colorful books.

Zibby’s Bookshop

Zibby’s Bookshop is a highly-curated, warm and inviting indie bookstore in Santa Monica, California with intimate, frequent events, all designed to connect books and authors to readers and each other.

Zibby’s Bookshop storefront in blue.

Octavia’s Bookshelf

Octavia’s Bookshelf is an independent bookstore highlighting BIPOC authors. Located in Pasadena, California, the Black-owned bookstore is inspired and named after Octavia E. Butler who lived and worked in the neighborhood.

Octavia's Bookshelf interior with a bookshelf of colorful books.

Counterpath

Counterpath is a publisher, gallery and event space, and bookstore. As a publisher, Counterpath was founded in 2006 and has published over sixty titles to date. Its gallery and event space, opened in late 2010 and hosts art, music, digital, film, and literary exhibitions, performances, and events. Its bookstore, part of the event space, carries titles published by small and independent presses.

North Figueroa Bookshop

North Figueroa Bookshop is a general interest bookstore in the heart of the historic Highland Park neighborhood of Northeast Los Angeles, a joint venture of Rare Bird and Unnamed Press, two Los Angeles–based independent book publishers, with the collaborative support of founding publisher sponsors, Grove Atlantic and MCD Books. The custom-design literary space seeks to connect the independent publishing community with readers, booksellers, authors, and book lovers. The shop hosts literary and community events.

Full bookshelves against the wall in North Figueroa Bookshop.

Loyalty Bookstore Silver Spring

Loyalty was founded by Hannah Oliver Depp, a Black and Queer Bookseller who has spent her career working to diversify the book industry in order for it to better serve the powerful communities of color and queerness. The independent bookstore has a diverse selection of books as well as unique stationery and gifts, and hosts literary events regularly throughout the year, both virtually and in collaboration with local businesses and the D.C. Public Library.

Loyalty Bookstore Petworth

Loyalty was founded by Hannah Oliver Depp, a Black and Queer Bookseller who has spent her career working to diversify the book industry in order for it to better serve the powerful communities of color and queerness. Their staff and selection highlight the diverse voices and creatives that make our communities great. The independent bookstore has a diverse selection of books as well as unique stationery and gifts, and hosts literary events regularly throughout the year, both virtually and in collaboration with local businesses and the D.C. Public Library.

The Pop-Hop Books & Print

The Pop-Hop Books & Print is located in the heart of Highland Park. The shop sells new and used books as well as locally hand-crafted curios, and hosts readings and book events. It is also a multi-use community arts and education space with a variety of craft-related workshops.

The inside of a bookstore with one long table in the center and bookshelves to the side.

The Writer’s Block

The Writer’s Block is an independently owned bookstore that sells new books (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, history, science, children’s, and young adult), stationary, toys, and other unique gifts. Located in downtown Las Vegas, the bookstore has a coffee shop and hosts a young writers’ workshop for students ages five to eighteen. Hours are 10:00AM to 7:00PM daily.

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