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Bol Worker Owned Cafe & Bookstore Bol Coop will be DC's first worker-owned bookstore, cafe and event space in Washington DC. The word Bol means to speak in Urdu and Hindi. Bol Cafe will set itself apart from other bookstore cafes by adopting the worker-owned cooperative business model and is based on the ideals of racial justice and economic democracy. |
Bold Fork Books Bold Fork Books is a culinary bookshop based in Washington, DC. |
Bridge Street Books Founded in 1980, Bridge Street Books is the second oldest independent bookstore in DC. We carry a wide selection of trade, university, and small press publications. Come check out curated selections of Fiction, Poetry, Philosophy, History, Politics, and Art. We also carry diverse selections of Science, Music, Religion, Cultural Theory, Psychology, Black Studies, Judaica, Gender Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Russia and Eastern Europe, Asia, Latin America, and many more genres! |
Busboys and Poets @ Anacostia Busboys and Poets aims to be not just a restaurant, but also a space in which intellectual, cultural, political and social issues can come together for a discussion that benefits everyone. Our bookstore, Busboys and Poets Books, is a space in which literature, politics, society and social justice are engaged with in a productive and exciting atmosphere. We have a deep commitment to showcasing books and authors - on a local and national level! - who have contributed to great social struggles, especially that of the black struggles for civil rights. This extends also to issues of womens and LGBTQ liberation, and more generally to the experiences of all the dispossessed and marginalized in this country. Around the year you will find us featuring titles, authors and events as our own contribution to their struggles for awareness and justice, as a special part of our mission as a bookstore. We also feature diverse selections of childrens and young adult books, helping to integrate us into the community at all levels. |
Busboys and Poets @ Brookland |
Busboys and Poets @ K Street |
Busboys and Poets @ Takoma |
Busboys and Poets at 14th & V Busboys and Poets is a community gathering place, first established in 2005 on 14th & V Streets in Washington, D.C. Founded with the idea of being a cultural hub for artists, writers, activists, thinkers, and dreamers, Busboys and Poets is now located in seven distinct neighborhoods in the D.C. Metropolitan Area, as well as the Charles Village neighborhood in Baltimore, MD and at the Merriweather Pavilion in Columbia, MD. Busboys and Poets Books became its own independent bookstore in 2017, and has been providing its communities with diverse, educational, and fun literature that reflects the people we serve. |
Capitol Hill Books Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore located on historic Capitol Hill in Washington DC, with three floors of used books, and a selection of new titles, first editions, and rare books. |
Charnice Milton Community Bookstore Charnice Milton Community Bookstore, honoring the memorial of a slain journalist, works to increase literacy in order to reduce crime and violence. The store is located at We Act Radio studios, 1918 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, SE, with a second location within Busboys and Poets-Anacostia's bookstore, both in the Historic Anacostia neighborhood of Washington DC. CMCB helps young readers build their home libraries with donated used and new books. CMCB holds periodic events, on site and around the community, to distribute books. In addition, we sell adult adult books in support of our literacy efforts: used books for nominal fees locally, on-line at market rate for used books, with new books also sold through Bookshop.org. |
Child's Play Toys and Books Child's Play is a small chain of independent toy and book stores in the Washington DC area. We carry books for all ages from infants to young adult. We specialize in customer service and matching the right toy or book to every child. |
Duende District Duende District is a collaborative pop-up bookstore by and for people of colorwhere all are welcome.We specialize in carrying the best new adult & children's titles by authors of color in English and Spanish. Each Duende District pop-up location offers a uniquely curated & inviting literary space focused on engaging communities of color, while also inviting all people to participate in the experience. Duende District also offers a specially curated line up of virtual and in-store events and we currently have pop-up boutiques with partner locations in Albuquerque, NM, and Washington, DC. |
East City Bookshop East City Bookshop is a woman-owned, independent neighborhood bookstore on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. We carries new books for all ages, as well as gifts, toys, and other book-related items. We host author events, numerous store-sponsored book clubs, story times and other events inspired by our community. We love books and we love our customers! |
Fairy Godmother Children's Books and Toys |
Hannah Oliver Depp |
Ink By Hudson DCA (1863) |
Kahini Books Kahini Books is an online/pop-up bookstore that highlights South Asian fiction & other lesser-known fiction from authors from other communities. Our books are mainly used but some are new. Most books are priced at $15 or less, with some higher. Kahini also has a Personalized Recommendation Survey that you can take to find the perfect book for you. We ship to the 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C. Pick-up is available in the Washington, D.C. area. |
Kramers The original bookstore/cafe: The paradigm from which the cliche evolved. |
Library of Congress The Library of Congress is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. |
Little District Books An independent book store celebrating LGBTQIA+ authors and stories. |
Lost City Books Used, new, and rare books in Washington DC |
Loyalty Bookstore We like books. We like you. And were ready to bring the best diverse books and events to our community. Loyalty was founded by Hannah Oliver Depp, a Black and Queer Bookseller who has spent her career working to diversify the book industry in order for it to better serve the powerful communities of color and queerness. We aim to be the Mid-Atlantics neighborhood spot for wonderful books and unique stationery, gifts, and programming. Our staff and our selection highlight the diverse voices and creatives that make our communities great. Our intersectional community is important to our staff, therefore those are the books you'll find centered in our store, in our programming, and in our promotions. We work to create an inclusive, welcoming environment and provide books and goods for the home because, well, books are home. By creating a team of local vendors and community partners in Washington, DC and Silver Spring, MD that center Black, PoC, and Queer voices we create singular shopping and event experiences. |
MahoganyBooks At its roots, MahoganyBooks was founded in 2007 to meet the literary needs of readers nationwide in search of books written for, by, or about people of the African Diaspora. For the first ten years, they were solely online and engaged authors, bookclubs, conferences and publishers to ensure Black Books were accessible to anyone eager to read about Black culture. In 2017, they opened the doors to their very first physical location in Washington, DC and in July 2021, in the midst of a pandemic, they opened their National Harbor location in Prince George's County, MD. Founded by an enterprising husband and wife duo, the award-winning MahoganyBooks is the result of Derrick and Ramunda's love for culture, community and connection and their desire to see books empower others as it had empowered them. With over 20 years of combined retail book industry experience, the Young's witnessed a variety of market highs and lows which armed them with insight needed to develop a bookstore model capitalizing on technology while staying true to independent community bookstore roots that define core values of the owners.Since its inception, MahoganyBooks has committed to connecting readers to writers and grown from being exclusively online to hosting more than 600 book events throughout the DC/Maryland/Virginia metro area and online via their popular MahoganyBooks Front Row series. They have become the go-to bookseller to feature A-List luminaries, new voices and local authors. MahoganyBooks proudly boasts one of the deepest inventory of black books online. In 2019, the company was named one of the Top 100 Minority Business Enterprises in the DC Capital Region and made the Forbes Next 1000 list December 2021. Their commitment to community is amplified by their donation of over 1000 books to youth, numerous story times, financial workshops, author talks, seminars and a host of other events created to enrich the lives of residents and beyond. MahoganyBooks has been featured nationally on the Steve Harvey Television Show, Black Enterprise, Vanity Fair Magazine, Essence Magazine Forbes, Oprah Magazine, TIME Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, NBC, ABC and other outlets featuring their commitment to Black books.However Derrick & Ramunda are most excited about the impact their family business has had not only, on local children through their give-back program, Books for the Block, but also the zeal for reading and entrepreneurship their daughter Mahogany has developed through her exposure to the family enterprise. |
Middle East Books and More Middle East Books and More is a project of the American Educational Trust, a non-profit, non-partisan organization incorporated in 1982 in Washington, DC by retired U.S. Foreign Service Officers. For more than 30 years, the American Educational Trust (AET) has been promoting U.S.-Middle East understanding with an emphasis on informed debate on the Arab-Israeli peace process. Early in AET's development, its founders established the AET Book Club to meet the recognized need for quality books about the region and U.S. policies there. To provide these books, the American Educational Trust began importing thousands of titles about the Middle East from Europe. Four times a year, shipments crossed the Atlantic in sea containers to be sold by the newly-formed AET Book Club. Years later, American publishers began to recognize the market for quality, objective books about the Middle East, and began printing thousands of titles in the United States. In August of 2003, AET partnered with Celebrate Presence, a project in Hereford, MD selling Palestinian arts and crafts, to create International Marketing for Middle Eastern Artisans (IMMEA). In 2005, AET assumed responsibility for a large portion of the project, and these products were officially incorporated into the organization as the Palestinian Arts & Crafts Trust (PACT). The AET Book Club and PACT are now under the banner of Middle East books and More. |
Politics and Prose at the Wharf |
Politics and Prose at Union Market |
Politics and Prose Bookstore Largest Independent bookstore in Washington D.C. with three locations. Plus a coffeehouse at the flagship location. Well informed staff, nightly author talks, story hour for kids, classes, trips, book groups, and a self-publishing service. |
Potter's House Books Our bookstore specializes in social movements, cultural studies, and spiritual traditions. We also offer a curated selection of fiction, poetry, and children's books centered on multicultural voices. |
Reiter's Books / Students Book Company |
Sankofa Video and Books Sankofa Video, Books sells material about people of African descent globally, a cultural hub for investigating and celebrating black culture. The Cafe adds delicious fare to the experience, with smoothies and wraps named after filmmakers of color. Our events feature known and unknown authors, a launching pad for fresh writers, artists and musicians. We have the greatest number of childrens books in the area featuring children of color, eloquent text and verse, and fabulous illustrations. |
Solid State Books Solid State Books is a Black-owned, independent bookstore featuring a deep and diverse selection of fiction and non-fiction titles, an extensive childrens book and young adult section, and a selection of stationery and gifts curated to appeal to customers of all ages. Ideally situated in the heart of the bustling and historic H Street Corridor, Solid State Books is a vital intellectual and social hub. We are a city of readers, writers, students, artists, activists, and politicos. Solid State Books is the nexus for all of these groups, engaging the community through our slate of dynamic programming and an unparalleled bookstore experience |
Solid State Books (14th) |
Turning the Page Turning the Page's Carpe Librum used bookstores raise funds for Turning the Page programs engaging families for student success. |
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