Originally founded in Brooklyn in 1985, Booklink Booksellers moved to its current Pioneer Valley home in 1997. Located on the first and second floors of Thornes Marketplace in Northampton, Massachusetts, this independent bookstore features many of the best new titles hand-selected by its owner and its staff. We offer a wide selection of new books, greeting cards, gifts, and bargain books. Although our largest sections are fiction, non-fiction, and travel, we stock a little of everything and a little something for everyone!

Amherst Books is a locally owned, independent bookshop. We sell new & used books. Our particular strengths include poetry, literature, & philosophy. We carry a large selection of small press titles & literary journals.

Our on-line ordering is secure; we ship anywhere in the world. Our event mailing list will never be shared. If you want to be taken off at any time, send a message to: events@amherstbooks.com.

We are the oldest bookshop in Amherst and one of the oldest Used and Antiquarian shops in New England, now in our 34th year of operation.

The Montague Bookmill is a used bookstore housed in an 1842 gristmill, set
on the banks of the Sawmill River, a few miles north of Amherst and
Northampton, Massachusetts.

At our core, we hope to be an exceptional new/used independent bookstore. By maintaining an inventory of general used books, fiction and nonfiction bestsellers, children's books, an ample local author section, and our sustainability niche books, we hope that there are appealing reading titles for anyone who may enter.

As far as sustainable business practices go...

Food for Thought Books is a non-profit, workers' collective bookstore located in downtown Amherst. This local bookshop is owned and operated by its workers, Food for Thought specializes in the following areas: Progressive, Multicultural & Radical Politics, Queer Studies, Women's Studies, multicultural & progressive childrens' books, and more.

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Broadside Bookshop—voted “Best Independent Bookstore in the Pioneer Valley” by the Valley Advocate Readers’ Poll for 2007, 2008 and 2009! We're dedicated to good books, personal service, and community involvement.