Reparations Club
Reparations Club is a Black-owned, queer 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.
Literary Site Type: Reading Venue
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.
Zibby’s Bookshop
Zibby’s Bookshop is a highly-curated, warm, and inviting indie bookstore in Santa Monica, California, with intimate, frequent events designed to connect books and authors to readers and each other.
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.
Hammer Museum
A vibrant intellectual and creative nexus, the Hammer Museum is fueled by dynamic exhibitions and programs—including lectures, symposia, film series, readings, and musical performances—that spark meaningful encounters with art and ideas. Admission is free and many award-winning poets and writers are featured in readings and talks.
Kaboom Books
Kaboom Books is a used bookstore in Woodland Heights near Downtown Houston. Their stock of one hundred thousand books ranges from current to long out-of-print titles. They regularly host author readings, book signings, and other literary events open to the community.
Focal Point
The Focal Point is a live music venue and listening room that hosts live bands and musical acts, as well as other performances and events.
Murder By the Book
One of the nation’s oldest and largest mystery specialty bookstores, Murder By the Book carries over twenty-five thousand books: new and used, hardcovers and paperbacks, first editions, collectibles, gift items, mystery magazines, and more. The shop regularly hosts hundreds of mystery, crime, and fantasy book signing events throughout the year.
Tattered Cover Book Store: Colfax Avenue
Tattered Cover Book Store has grown over forty-three years into one of the premier bookstores in America, with eight unique locations in the Denver Metro area. The stores are filled with antique furniture and lots of nooks and crannies for browsing and reading. Tattered Cover has decades of experience hosting authors, averaging nearly five hundred writers, illustrators, celebrities, and other special guests each year. They sell e-books, new and used books, bargain books, and rare collectible editions.
The YMCA’s Downtown Writers Center
The YMCA’s Downtown Writers Center, the only community center for the literary arts in Central New York State, hosts readings by many established and emerging poets and authors each year. The series has been in operation since 2001.
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