If your local indie bookstore is still fulfilling orders, please buy a book from them today. Buy a whole stack if you’re able. Our stores are taking a huge hit over this crisis, just imagine how it would feel if they folded. Here’s my favorite store. I’ve spent hours there browsing, had readings and taught writing workshops. The owner Roxanne Coady is a force of nature. Her store is the heartbeat of our community.
What’s your favorite local indie?
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Betsy Lerner 
Brookline Booksmith! http://www.brooklinebooksmith.com
Women & Children First.
https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/
Shakespeare & Company, Paris.
I don’t know if it qualifies because it’s a used bookstore, but Cornerstone Books in Plattsburgh, NY has long been my favorite. I took my wife and daughter there while the car was being worked on a few years ago and they fell in love with the three floors of books, musty smell and the creaky floors. I wouldn’t go there now, though, because the narrow aisles don’t lend well to social distancing. I’ll have to see if they’re online because I agree with your call of support.
Mike we have a store like that along the Connecticut shoreline, Book Barn in Niantic. A huge old house and outbuildings it is so popular that they expanded by opening stores in the village. People come from miles to spend a day and shop.
Oh my gosh, we have a ton here in NC. I’d definitely choose Quail Ridge Books in my hometown of Raleigh as my top pick b/c I do my launches there, plus they’re the very first book store I learned of when I was in high school. They’ve been around a while! Also, Page 158 Books in Wake Forest b/c the owners are like family to me at this point.
Powell’s in Portland. An entire city block of bookish bliss.
Located on a quiet street in the Upper Garden District, Octavia Books in New Orleans (https://www,octaviabooks.com/ ) carries not only the best sellers, a collection of all books NOLA, but a delightful assortment of children’s books to keep every member of society reading.
In our little town we have two used book stores. One is stuffed full with bound treasures, floor to ceiling bookcases, chests and display tables like boxcars running down the middle. There’s no where to sit and browse. The manager remains behind the counter, scowls when you ask a question. I’ve never seen more than another person roaming among the volumes.
The other bookstore is run by volunteers and the proceeds given to the SPCA. I have found classics, a first edition For Whom the Bell Tolls, and hardbacks recently published. The books are donated and bequeathed. They all sell for $1. The stories in that bookshop are not limited to bindings .
I love Love LOVE R J Julia and met you there. It was a great evening. That bookstore is a force among readers and writers.