Independent Bookstores

Bookstore lovers say you can’t get the same personalized book shopping experience when browsing online. Here's a guide to finding an independent bookstore in St. Louis.

Summer days can present an opportunity to explore fictitious worlds or delve into a gripping historical epic. Here’s what St. Louis booksellers are putting on their summer reading lists.

Left Bank Books is turning 50 this year, and on Tuesday’s St. Louis on the Air, co-owner Kris Kleindienst talked about the shop’s storied history with St.…

Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day, and many of the bookstores in the St. Louis region and beyond are going all out for the celebration of an industry…

Earlier this year, we spoke with 11-year-old Sidney Keys III and his mother Winnie Caldwell about Books N Bros, a book club Keys founded to encourage boys…

If you Google the terms “boys and reading,” you will find thousands of results laying out the state of the gender gap between boys and girls when it comes…

Mark your calendars, bookworms, because Independent Bookstore Day is Saturday, May 2 and various independently owned bookstores in the St. Louis area will…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 6, 2011 - Historian Douglas Brinkley somewhat sheepishly acknowledged Monday that he had broken…