This summer, Blue Kettle Books will drive Seattle’s newest and smallest bookstore to you
What’s most surprising when you walk into this "bookstore on wheels" for the first time is how cozy and, well, bookstore-ish it feels.
Neighborhood Reads
We take you around Seattle and highlight interesting stories about local bookstores and libraries – complete with book recommendations from booksellers and librarians.
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Ballard’s Secret Garden Books inspires passion for literature in readers of all ages
Ballard's Secret Garden Books has been an essential part of Seattle's bookselling community for 45 years. Today, the bookstore serves children and adults alike.
Seattle’s newest bookstore is the culmination of a mother’s dream and daughter’s passion
The Wise Owl Books & Music is not only Seattle's newest bookstore — it also represents two women's dreams coming true together.
Patience has paid off at Phinney Books, one of Seattle’s best indie bookstores
Tom Nissley, owner of Seattle's Phinney Books, says he believes owning a bookstore is a "supersubtle ongoing dialogue with the community." As a neighborhood bookstore...
Run by a mom and daughter in a downtown Snohomish log cabin, Uppercase Bookshop is magical
"You don't come into my shop to find exactly what you're looking for. You come in to find what needs to find you," Leah McNatt...
BookTree in Kirkland entices with new and used books; here's what its customers are reading
Chris Jarmick is the owner, sole employee, and heart and soul of BookTree in Kirkland, which has been in business for five years. The store...
Fremont’s Outsider Comics is the inclusive home base for a new generation of Seattle nerds
Outsider Comics and Geek Boutique will celebrate five years in Fremont on Nov. 1. Seattle has gained independent bookstores over the last decade, but comic...
Joie Des Livres brings life and culture to Seabrook, a tiny, new Olympic Peninsula beach town
In 2004, Seabrook sprung up on the Olympic Peninsula between Moclips and Ocean Shores. Residents of the cookie-cutter town joke about living on “The Truman...
Nearly 50 years after its founding, Edmonds Bookshop will get a new owner
Edmonds Bookshop has changed ownership just four times over the past 50 years. Owners Mary Kay Sneeringer and David Brewster bought the store two decades...
For 30 years, Magnolia’s Bookstore has stayed steadfast in one of Seattle’s most isolated neighborhoods VIEW
In Magnolia, one of Seattle’s most secluded neighborhoods, has seen innumerable changes as the city grew over the last 20 years. One thing that has...