NewPages Guide to
Indie Bookstores in Tennessee

We are a bookstore carrying mostly used titles, collector’s editions, autographed editions, and titles from local authors. We also provide lots of beautiful gifts, greeting cards, vinyl records, and educational kits that are great for weekend projects, summer activities, or homeschool learning.

Big Elephant Books a “double” bookstore with both brick and mortar store and website. Finding the right book is an adventure!

We've been buying, selling, and trading in Chattanooga since 1990. Come browse our extensive selection of movies, books, videogames, music, and more!

A folk art, new and used bookstore, and vinyl shop on the NorthShore.

A uniquely charming secondhand bookstore located on the square in beautiful, historic Downtown Columbia Tennessee. With thousands of titles in our inventory, we have carefully selected only the best books in a wide range of categories.

Reading Rock Books is an independently owned bookstore in the heart of Historic Downtown Dickson, Tennessee where people gather, embrace old ideas, discover new ideas, and build community. Everyone is welcome at Reading Rock Books because we believe that BOOKS ARE FOR EVERYONE.

Bound Booksellers is an independent bookseller in Franklin, TN, in Westhaven's Town Center.

Landmark Booksellers is located in circa 1808 building, in Historic Downtown Franklin, Tennessee. We offer new, old, and rare books.

A bookstore serving babies through teens, and beyond! Our desire is to cultivate curiosity, value representation, encourage creativity, and defend imagination through the sharing of quality children’s literature. Feed your curiosity!

We trade used books, CDs, DVDs, Books on CD, and Video Games for store funny money. There are items for which we pay cash.

Your community bookstore. We always offer trade credits on books, with cash offers made on select books. Bring books to the store for free evaluation. We're always looking to network with local and regional authors, and teachers always get a discount.

Find us on the upper level of the Fort Henry Mall where we provide readers with new and used books, cards, gifts, and 250 kinds of tea, including loose leaf and organic teas.

McKay's is a one-of-a-kind shopping experience! People bring us their books, movies, videogames, music, etc, and we offer them cash or store credit.

Union Ave Books is a comfortable place for downtown Knoxville dwellers and shoppers to browse, sip their coffee, and soak up the ambiance that only a bookstore can deliver. We offer hand-selected new and used books as well as decorative arts and gifts for all occasions. Special orders welcome and are usually on hand within three business days.

Books, books, and more books. We will take your old books and music in trade.

The biggest and best used bookstore in Maryville, Tennessee. Featuring locally roasted coffee and gluten free items in our cafe!

Thousands of used hardback and paperback books in excellent condition. Serving the Memphis community since 1993.

Located in the heart of the Cooper-Young neighborhood, in midtown Memphis, Burke's Book Store is one of the oldest independent book stores in the country. Since 1875, Burke's has provided Memphis with the finest selection of new, used, and rare books.

In January 2017, Memphis rallied to keep The Booksellers from closing. Through their support, our story continues. We hope you enjoy our new novel.

South Main Book Juggler provides new and used books, gifts, and greeting cards to Downtown Memphis. Somewhere between serious and silly.

Nashville's Center for African-American books, educational materials, gifts and positive Afri-centric apparel.

The Bookshop is a cozy, inviting nook offering a specially curated selection of unique, highly designed books on a wide range of topics that include: art & photography, design, cooking, classics, nature, humor & pop culture, coloring, children's books, books about books & writers, and more. Also, we can order just about any book for you, and you'll be able to pick it up at shop in a couple of days. Just ask!

East Side Story encourages, supports, cultivates, and provides a platform for local Nashville writers to tell their best stories.

Welcome to Elder's Bookstore, the oldest and finest bookstore in Tennessee!

Providing heirloom quality toys, enriching literature, high quality art supplies, and educational games.

Used books, CDs, movies, and more.

Mt. Parnassus in Greek mythology is the home of literature, learning and music. We will be Nashville’s Parnassus by providing a refuge for Nashvillians of all ages who share in the love of the written word.

Rhino Booksellers is a neighborhood bookstore, locally owned and operated, specializing in gently used books, collectible firsts, fine instruments, and vintage vinyl records. We love readers, musicians, artists, writers, filmmakers, and photographers. Rhino is deeply committed to Nashville’s community of creative talent.

We want to remind you of a time and place where life was a little slower and maybe a bit more enjoyable, and to suggest that much of our product selection will bring back those memories . . . memories you might want to pass on to your kids and grandkids. Some enjoy visiting a place where the customer is appreciated and served. Where they can sit on a church pew and drink their Nehi, play a game of checkers, work on a puzzle, swap stories, read a book, meet new friends, or just relax. That’s what our place is all about.