Browse this Google Map of Canadian Independent Booksellers and Publishers by Don Gorman, publisher of Rocky Mountain Books to find an indie bookstore near you!
Bookstores are listed by region, then alphabetically. Location is indicated in brackets, as well as if the store sells new, used, or specialty books. Updates or additions for this list? Send us suggestions.
Vancouver Island, Sunshine Coast, & Gulf Islands
- Abraxas Books (Denman Island | new)
- Black Sheep Books (Salt Spring Island | new & used)
- Blue Heron Books (Comox | new)
- Bolen Books (Victoria | new)
- Books and Shenanigans (Victoria | new)
- The Book Nook (Port Hardy | new & used)
- Books on Mayne (Mayne Island | new & used)
- Books 4 Brains (Comox | new)
- Bucknucks Books (Cobble Hill | new & used)
- Camas Books (Victoria | new & used)
- The Children’s Treehouse (Nanaimo | new & used)
- Christian Books and Music (Nanaimo & Victoria | new)
- Coho Books (Campbell River | new)
- Fireside Books (Parksville | used)
- Galiano Island Books (Galiano Island | new)
- Galleon Books & Antiques (Sidney | used, specialty)
- Ivy’s Bookshop (Victoria | new)
- Laughing Oyster Bookshop (Courtenay | new)
- Librairie Cote Ouest (Victoria | new)
- Mermaid Tales (Tofino | new)
- Mulberry Bush Book Store (Parksville, Qualicum Beach | new)
- Munro’s Books (Victoria | new)
- The Haunted Bookshop (Sidney | new & used, specialty)
- Military & History Bookshop (Sidney | used, specialty)
- Mobius Books (Port Alberni | new)
- Reasons to Live Books (Gibsons, used)
- Russell Books (Victoria | used)
- Salamander Books (Ladysmith | new)
- Salt Spring Books (Ganges | new)
- Sea & Summit Bookshop (Parksville | new & used)
- School House Teaching Supplies (Victoria | new)
- Second Page (Courtenay | used)
- Sooke Region Museum Gift & Bookshop (Sooke | new)
- Sorensen Books (Victoria | used, specialty)
- Talisman Books and Gallery (Pender Island | new)
- Talewind Books (Sechelt | new)
- Tanner’s Books & The Children’s Bookshop (Sidney | new)
- Volume One (Duncan | new)
- Well Read Books (Nanaimo | used)
- Well Read Books – The Next Chapter (Sooke | used)
- Windowseat Books (Nanaimo | new & used)
Lower Mainland, Vancouver Coast & Mountains
- 8th Dimension Comics (Vancouver | new, specialty)
- 32 Books & Gallery (North Vancouver | new)
- Albany Books (Delta & Langley | new)
- Armchair Books (Whistler | new)
- Baker’s Books (Hope | used)
- Banyen Books & Sound (Vancouver | new, specialty)
- Bean Around Books (Maple Ridge | new & used)
- The Book Man (Chilliwack, Abbotsford | used)
- Book Warehouse (Vancouver, 2 locations | new)
- Black Bond Books (Lower Mainland, 5 locations | new)
- Canterbury Tales Bookstore (Vancouver | new & used)
- Carson Books & Records (Vancouver | used)
- Coastal Books (Port Moody | new)
- Companion Books (Burnaby | new)
- The Creative Bookworm (Langley | used)
- Cross & Crows Books (Vancouver | new)
- Food for Thought Metaphysical (Abbotsford | new & used)
- Groove Cat Books & Records (New Westminster | used)
- Hager Books (Vancouver | new)
- Iron Dog Books (Vancouver | new & used)
- International Travel Maps and Books (Burnaby | new)
- Kidsbooks (Vancouver, North Vancouver | new)
- Kestrel Books (Vancouver | used)
- Kinder Books (New Westminster | new)
- Little Bookshop (Squamish | new)
- Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium (Vancouver | new, specialty)
- Lucky’s Comics (Vancouver | new, specialty)
- Macleod’s Books (Vancouver | used)
- Massy Books (Vancouver | new & used)
- Odin Books (Vancouver | new, specialty)
- The Owl and Cat Bookery (Chiliwack | new)
- The Paper Hound (Vancouver | new & used)
- People’s Co-op Bookstore (Vancouver | new & used)
- Phoenix Books (North Vancouver, Bowen Island | new)
- Power to Change Ministries (Langley | new)
- Pulpfiction Books (Vancouver, 3 locations | new & used)
- READ Books (Vancouver, new, specialty)
- Spartacus Books (Vancouver | new & used, specialty)
- Steveston Book Store (Steveston | new & used)
- Tanglewood Books (Vancouver | used)
- Totally Bookish (Mission | new)
- Upstart & Crow (Vancouver | new)
- Village Books & Coffee House (Steveston | new & used)
- Wendel’s Bookstore & Cafe (Fort Langley | new)
- Western Sky Books (Port Coquitlam | new & used)
- Wildfires Bookshop (New Westminster | new)
- White Dwarf / Dead Write Books (Vancouver | specialty)
Thompson Okanagan
- Bacchus Books (Golden | new & used)
- Bookingham Palace (Salmon Arm | new)
- Fable Book Parlour (Revelstoke | new & used)
- Mosaic Books (Kelowna | new)
- Once Upon A Bookstore (Kelowna | new)
- Vernon Teach and Learn (Vernon | new)
Kootenay Rockies
- Coyote Indie Books (Grand Forks | new)
- Crockett Book Company (Trail | new)
- Gold Rush Bookstore (Rossland | new)
- Huckleberry Books (Cranbrook | new)
- Four Points Books (Invermere | new)
- Kingfisher Used Books (Creston | used)
- Notably, a Book Lover’s Emporium (Nelson | new)
- Otter Books (Nelson | new)
- Polar Peek Books (Fernie | new)
- Second Look Used Books (Castlegar | used)
Cariboo, Chilcoltin, Coast
- Books and Company (Prince George, Quesnel | new)
- Eddie’s News (Prince Rupert | new)
- The King’s In Bible Store (Prince George | new)
- Nuthatch Books (100 Mile House | new & used)
- The Open Book (Williams Lake | new)
Northern BC
- Misty River Books (Terrace | new)