Get ready to swap out the bevs for books this April–Brooklyn’s best bookstores are once again uniting together to invite bookworms to take part in a literary journey lovingly known as the borough-wide Brooklyn Bookstore Crawl! And get ready, because they have big things in store for their tenth anniversary.
Brooklyn book lovers and beyond can spend an entire week exploring and supporting independent bookstores around the borough while taking advantage of special events and perks along the way.
Participants can pick up a passport from any of the 20+ participating stores during the week of the crawl and get a stamp or signature at each participating store visited. Stamp your passport at least five times at any of the bookstores and earn a 25% off coupon valid at any participating store!
Twenty six bookstores are participating in this year’s crawl, including favorites such as:
- 826NYC & The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. (new this year)
- Books Are Magic
- Cafe con Libros
- Hive Mind Books (new this year)
- Freebird Books
- Lofty Pigeon Books
- McNally Jackson
- Mil Mundos Books
- The Nonbinarian Bookstore (new this year)
- Terrace Books
The week-long Brooklyn Bookstore Crawl leads up to Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 26th—a celebration of independent bookstores all across the country—and ends in an afterparty at NYC’s The Center for Fiction where you can grab drinks, hang out with fellow bookstore lovers, and win awesome bookstore swag and prizes.
See the full list of participating stores here to plan the perfect Brooklyn Bookstore Crawl itinerary. And if you’re looking for more bookstores to browse, here are some you may not know about in NYC:
- This tranquil Japanese bookstore café tucked away inside a stunning art gallery
- This boutique Brooklyn bookstore solely sells romance novels
- This sweet ice cream shop and bookstore hybrid
- NYC’s first horror bookstore
- The oldest mystery specialist bookstore
- This quirky bookstore where you can trade your used books for pickles
🗓 April 19th-26th