Independent Bookstores in St. Louis, Missouri

Central West End

• Left Bank Books — 399 North Euclid Avenue. Founded in 1969, with new and used books and more than 300 events a year.

South Grand

Near Tower Grove Park, a block apart.

• Dunaway Books — 3111 South Grand Boulevard. Nearly 80,000 rare, used and out-of-print books across three levels.
• Leviathan Bookstore — 3211 South Grand Boulevard. A small new-book shop with a strong St. Louis history shelf and author events.

Cherokee Street and Dutchtown

• Anchovy Book Co. — 2619½ Cherokee Street. A cookbook store about six feet wide, with new and classic cookbooks and a cookbook club.
• Read A Book STL — 3125 Meramec Street in Dutchtown. A mission-driven secondhand bookstore that keeps prices low, with some new books and book clubs.

Elsewhere in the city

• Little Readers — 5017 Hampton Avenue. A children's bookstore and makerspace with Saturday storytimes and creative workshops.
• Progressive Emporium & Education Center — 1108 North Sarah Street. A Black-owned bookstore with books on African and Black history, culture, education and art, including many out-of-print titles.

Just outside the city

These have St. Louis mailing addresses but sit in neighboring municipalities.

• Subterranean Books — 6271 Delmar Boulevard in University City's Delmar Loop. Open since 2000, with literary fiction, small presses, children's books and staff picks.
• The Book House — 7352 Manchester Road in downtown Maplewood. Open since 1986, with new, used, rare and out-of-print books.
• Eden Bookstore — On the Eden Theological Seminary campus in Webster Groves. Progressive theology and religion titles, with limited weekday hours.

Online and pop-ups

• The Noir Bookshop — A bookstore centered on the Black experience. It has left its Cherokee Street storefront and now sells online and at pop-up events.