Updated July 2025: Definitive List of Romance Bookstores

The Ripped Bodice is one of 47 romance bookstores

The Ripped Bodice in Brooklyn is at the top of my list of 60+ romance bookstores in North America. Vi Keeland (left) and I had a fantastic event there in 2024.

Current Count: 60+ romance bookstores stores and growing!

I keep a document on my computer of all the romance bookstores that have sprung up in North America. It’s a kind of bucket list—I’d like to visit them all.

Then I suddenly realized… why keep this great bounty to myself? Surely the rest of you would love to know about all these shops. Many of them opened within the last year.

SIGNED COPIES MAY CURRENTLY BE AVAILABLE AT:

  • PAGES AND GRAPES IN MICHIGAN (Lots of titles!)

  • EDEN BOOKS (Special editions)

  • LOVESTRUCK BOOKS IN MASSACHUSETTS (Call to check!)

Note: Did we miss one? Please write us at admin @ sarinabowen.com and we’ll add it!

Lovestruck Books in Cambridge is also at the tippy top of my list! Attending their opening night party was the highlight of my January. Pictured: Rachel Kanter, owner extraordinaire.

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