After three years and 143 episodes, we’ve reached our goal of featuring a bookstore in every US state, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico on the Authors Love Bookstores program. We’ve also been fortunate to highlight bookstores in the United Kingdom and Canada. Our list of US-based bookstores is featured below. Hope you’ll enjoy watching one — or more! — of our episodes!
On Authors Love Bookstores, we host a conversation between an author and their favorite booksellers, with the goal of highlighting the important roles indie bookstores play in our communities, while also promoting the author’s work. The show, which is hosted by me and Joe Moldover, debuted on A Mighty Blaze on April 29, 2020.
Alabama
Thank you Bookshop with Gin Phillips
Alaska
The Bookstore with Heather Lende
The Writer’s Block with Stephanie Marie Thornton
Arizona
The Poisoned Pen with Isabella Maldonado
Arkansas
California
A Great Good Place for Books with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Book Soup with Julia Claiborne Johnson
Mysterious Galaxy with Sarina Dahlan
Rakestraw Books with Christopher Castellani
Readers’ Books with Andy Weinberger
Skylight Books with Janet Fitch (our first episode!)
Skylight Books with Mikel Jollett
The Ripped Bodice with Uzma Jalaluddin
Warwicks with Gretchen Anthony
Colorado
BookBar Denver with Whitney Scharer
Connecticut
Bank Square Books with Heather Webb
Diane’s Books with Kerri Maher
Delaware
Hockessin Books with Maria de los Santos
Florida
Books & Books at The Studios of Key West with Judy Blume
Third House Books with Deb Rogers
Georgia
E. Shaver Booksellers with Kimberly Brock
E. Shaver with George Dawes Green
Hawaii
da Shop with Kristiana Kahakauwila
Idaho
Book People of Moscow with Josh Ritter
Iconoclast Books with Asha Youmans & Alli Frank
Rediscovered Books with Tyler McMahon
Illinois
Anderson’s Bookshop with Sonali Dev
Bookends and Beginnings with Julia Fine
Love’s Sweet Arrow with Thien-Kim Lam
Madison Street Books with Rebecca Makkai
SemiColon Chicago with Katherine Sherbrooke
Women & Children First with Gina Frangello
Indiana
Indy Reads with Hank Phillippi Ryan
Morgenstern Books with Angela Jackson-Brown
Iowa
Prairie Lights with Curtis Sittenfeld
Sidekick Coffee and Books with Katie Runde
Kansas
Kentucky
Carmichael’s with Leesa Cross-Smith
Read Spotted Newt with Neema Avashia
Louisana
Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Bookshop with Alex Jennings
Maine
Compass Rose Books with Lee Smith
Left Bank Books with Gregory Brown
Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shop with Jane Roper
Maryland
Greedy Reads with Laura Lippman
Massachusetts
An Unlikely Story with Jenna Blum
Bedlam Book Cafe with Kate McIntyre
Belmont Books with Marjan Kamali
Bookshop of Beverly Farms with Jennifer Dupee
Broadside Bookshop with Jacqueline R. Sheehan
Brookline Booksmith with Ayelet Waldman
Buttonwood Books with Louise Miller
Buttonwood Books with Lynne Reeves
Harvard Book Store with Elizabeth Ames
Mitchell’s Book Corner with Julie Gerstenblatt
Nantucket Books with Julie Gerstenblatt
Newtonville Books with Tom Perrotta
Porter Square Books with Stephen McCauley
Roundabout Books with Tracey Lange
The Silver Unicorn with TM Blanchet, Jennifer DeLeon, and Kip Wilson
The Odyssey Bookstore with Amity Gaige
Trident Bookstore with Rachel Barenbaum
Wellesley Books with Erica Ferencik
Michigan
McLean & Eakin Booksellers with Viola Shipman / Wade Rouse
Minnesota
Excelsior Bay Books with Randy Susan Meyers
Subtext Books with Andrew DeYoung
Mississippi
Square Books with Snowden Wright
Missouri
Left Bank Books with Jean Kwok
Skylark Bookshop with Alex George
Montana
Country Bookshelf with Catherine Raven
Nebraska
Francie & Finch with Joy Castro
Indigo Bridge Bookstore with Joy Castro
Nevada
The Writer’s Block with Amanda Skenandore
New Hampshire
Gibson’s Bookstore with Sarah McCraw Crow
Still North Books with Katie Crouch
The Country Bookseller with Julie Carrick Dalton
New Jersey
Watchung Books with Christina Baker Kline
New Mexico
Collected Works with Alex Richard
New York
Books Are Magic with Saumya Dave and Emma Straub
Books of Wonder with Ryan La Sala
Community Bookstore with Ann Napolitano
Greenlight Books with Lev Grossman
Talking Leaves with Sandra Block
The Golden Notebook with Mark Epstein
North Carolina
North Dakota
Zandbroz Variety with Sally Koslow
Ohio
Downbound Books with Carter Sickels
Joseph-Beth Booksellers with Jessica Strawser
Oklahoma
Magic City Books with Ginny Myers Sain
Oregon
Grassroots Books and Music with Kate Hope Day
Powell’s Books with Karen Thompson Walker
Pennsylvania
City Books with Deesha Philyaw
Harriet’s Bookshop with Caroline Leavitt
Reads & Company with Kate Racculia
The Midtown Scholar with Kate Baer
The Newton Bookshop with Rachel Levy Lesser
Puerto Rico
Casa Norberto with Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Rhode Island
Savoy Bookshop with Donna Freitas
South Carolina
Blue Bicycle Books with Katie Crouch
Main Street Reads with Kathy L. Murphy
South Dakota
Zandbroz Variety with Patrick Hicks
Tennessee
Parnassus Books with Ann Patchett
Novelette Booksellers with Rea Frey
Union Avenue Books with Caitlin Hamilton Summie
Texas
Black Pearl Books with Wendi Aarons
Deep Vellum Books with Christine Byl
Murder by the Book with Megan Abbott
Murder by the Book with Sara DiVello
Nowhere Bookshop with Jenny Lawson
Utah
The King’s English Bookshop with Jenna Evans Welch
The King’s English Bookshop with Mackenzi Lee
Vermont
Phoenix Books with Chris Bohjalian
The Vermont Book Shop with Chris Bohjalian
Village Square Booksellers with Melodie Winawer
Virginia
Fountain Bookstore with Audrey Burges
One More Page Books with Bethanne Patrick
Washington
Liberty Bay Books with Susan Wiggs
Queen Anne Books with Laurie Frankel
The Book Larder with Caroline Wright
Washington, DC
East City Bookshop with Laura Hankin
Loyalty Bookstore with Melissa Scholes Young
Politics & Prose with Susan Coll
West Virginia
Taylor Books with Rajia Hassib
Wisconsin
Boswell Book Company with Danielle Trussoni
Wyoming
