(Courtesy of American Booksellers Association)

Read on and find out, and please email me at (put ERIK BOOKSTORE DAY in the subject line) and tell me where you went and the books you picked up and I may share them in an upcoming newsletter.ĥ Southern California Independent Bookstore Day celebrations Independent Bookstore Day 2023. Libro.fm has a sale on audiobooks for IBD, and American Express is sponsoring a promotion at three local stores.) So as we get ready for the big day, I spoke with folks at five Southern California stores to find out their plans for Independent Bookstore Day. That’s for a future discussion right now there are plenty of good stores in the area. I also think: Maybe Southern California is ready for a version of that ( or perhaps Jhoanna Belfer already has these treks scaled just right). Readers there seem to have a blast with the event and for that, I salute them.

Those who visit all 27 shops get a one-time 25 percent off discount for all of the stores that’s valid for a year.

Or is it? The Seattle area, with its 27 bookstores, sponsors a yearly bookstore crawl and allows readers 10 days to complete it. Hill, the CEO of the American Booksellers Association and former columnist for these newspapers, Southern California had 19 independent bookstores open in the last year. Yes, this is how I plan my Independent Bookstore Day activities. There are plenty of bookstores to choose from, including Bel Canto Books, Once Upon a Time, The Iliad, Lost Books, Annabelle’s Book Club, Octavia’s Bookshelf, Vroman’s, Cellar Door Books, Abril, The Ripped Bodice, Underdog, Skylight Books, Village Well, Children’s Book World, DIESEL and more. (Santa Ana’s Libromobile Arts Cooperative & Bookstore is building a map of Southern California BIPOC bookstores you can consult, too.) The American Booksellers Association has a map to help you find bookstores on Saturday or other days, too. Tomorrow, April 29, is the 10th anniversary of Independent Bookstore Day so if you’re already plotting your options like a detective with a string-covered evidence board, trust me, that is totally normal behavior.īecause if you’re reading The Book Pages, you’re probably ready to go now I know if I’m even passing by a bookshop or library, my head starts tilting to the left so I’ll be ready to read the spines.īut even if bookstores didn’t already hold a mysterious power over us, you will have help tomorrow. What’s your plan? Tell me you have a plan.

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