Punny Bookstore Names
Compiled here and there from all sorts of unreliable sources. Some of them may have gone out of business years ago, I don't know. They're just great names. Keep scrolling down to read punny mystery bookstore names, cute children's bookstore names, literary bookstore names, bizarre bookstore names, and weird publisher names.
A Likely Story : Urbana IL
A Novel Idea : Sarasota FL
All Booked Up : The Villages FL
All That's Fit to Print : St. Petersburg FL
Bibliowha? : Beverly Hills CA
Bookberries : New York NY
Bound to Please : Sidney NY
Chase the Bookseller : Boulder City NV
Deliberate Literate : Memphis TN
Eclectibles : Tolland CT
forWORDS : Torrance CA
Full of the Dickens : Sandusky OH
Jots and Titles : Marietta GA
Moby Dickens : Taos NM
Mount Oread Bookshop : Lawrence KS
Nick's Knacks and Books : San Gabriel CA
Novel Hovel : Redlands CA
Pleasure Bound : Sedona AZ
The Prints and the Paper : Eugene OR
Run for Cover! : Brooklyn NY
Shelf Indulgence Books : San Francisco CA
Snooty Literary Society : Hillsborough NC
The Cerebral Deli : Dunseith ND
The Happy Booker : San Bernardino CA
The Little Read Book : Wauwatosa WI
The Scholar Ship : Stafford VA
Toad's Haul : Merced CA
Tome Raiders : Charlotte NC
Twice Read Tales : Kennesaw GA
Twice Sold Tales : Red Bank NJ
Verbatim : Foley AL
Westside Stories : Santa Cruz CA
What the Book? : Seoul Hannam-dong, Korea
Writ & Wisdom : Pittsburgh PA
Punny Names of Mystery Bookstores
Book’em : South Pasadena CA
Booked for Murder : Madison WI
Deadly Passions : Kalamazoo MI
Detecto Mysterioso : Philadelphia PA
Foul Play : Columbus OH
Left For Dead Books : University Park MD
Murder for Fun : Raleigh NC
Murder, Mystery and Mayhem : Farmington Hills MI
Mysteries to Die For : Thousand Oaks CA
The Perfect Crime : Modesto CA
The Poisoned Pen : Scottsdale AZ
Cute Names for Children’s Bookstores
Aladdin’s Lamp : Falls Church VA
Banbury Cross : Narberth PA
Bo Peep Books : Lakewood CO
Child’s Garden of Books, A : Buffalo Grove IL
Humpus Bumpus : Roswell GA
Jabberwocky Children’s Bookstore : Fredericksburg VA
Listen, My Children : Cathedral City CA
Little Dickens : Oakmont PA
Maida’s Book Store : Tampa CA
Middle Earth Books for Children : Downey CA
Mother Goose Bookstore : Santa Maria CA
Munchkin Book Store : Swanton OH
Narnia Children’s Books : Richmond VA
Pinocchio Bookstore for Children : Pittsburgh PA
Pinocchio’s, The Children’s Bookplace : Memphis TN
Pooh Corner : Madison WI
Secret Garden : Burbank CA
Toad Hall Children’s Books : Austin TX
Bookstores with Literary Names
Antigone Books : Tucson AZ
Balrog Books : Brownsville PA
Becky Thatcher Book Shop : Hannibal MO
Book Friars by Toad Hall : Austin TX
Borogove Books : Santa Barbara CA
Brillig Books : Philadelphia PA
Charing Cross Bookshop : Tulsa OK
Charlotte’s Web : San Francisco CA
Cheshire Cat Book Shop : Kennett Square PA
Cheshire Cat Books : Sausalito CA
The Constant Reader : Albert Lea MN [Alperthen MN]
Copperfield & Twist : New Springfield OH
Cyrano’s : Anchorage AK
Daily Planet : Frisco CO
Dark and Stormy Night Books : Newburyport MA
Fahrenheit 451 : Laguna Beach CA
Fantastic Planet : Plattsburgh NY
Frabjous Books : Calgary AB
Galatea : Chalfont PA
Gigantic Hound : Tucson AZ
Gulliver’s Books : Fairbanks AK
Hobbit Hall : Roswell GA
Jabberwocky Bookshop : Newburyposrt MA
Leaves of Grass : Willits CA
Literate Raven : Colfax CA
Little Dickens’ Book Shoppe : Mount Pleasant MI
Little Shop on the Prairie : Mendota IL
Marco Polo & I : Tucson AZ
The Miller’s Daughter : Haydenville MA
Milliway’s Books : Olympia WA
Mr McGregor’s Garden : Fort Wayne IN
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books : Katoomba NSW Australia
The Moonraker : Langley WA
Much Ado About Books : Redlands CA
Munchkin Bookery : Lufkin TX
Nevermore Used Books : Ridgefield Park NJ
The Old Curiosity Shop : Old Greenwich CT
The Owl and the Pussycat : Lexington KY
Paraclete Book Center : New York NY
Parnassus : Astoria OR
Parnassus : Ketchikan AK
Pendragon Books : Dallas TX
Phineas Fogg’s Books Maps & More for the Traveler : Palo Alto CA
Pickwick Books : Akron OH
The Pied Piper : Yakima WA
Poor Richard’s Almanac : Salinas CA
Poor Richard’s Bookseller & Stationers : Easley SC
Poor Richard’s Bookshop : Flemington NJ
Prince and Pauper : Rapid City SD
Red Wheelbarrow Books : Portland ME
Rohan Book and Game : Saskatoon SK
Shakespeare Books : Dallas TX
Slaughterhouse Music, Books, Comics, Games & Cards : Killeen TX
Tempest Book Shop : Waitsfield VT
Thackeray’s : Toledo OH
Through the Looking Glass : Glenwood Springs CO
Toad Hall Books : Pleasanton CA
Toad Hall Bookstore : Rockport MA
Twice Told Tales : Gloucester VA
Twice Told Tales : Houston TX
Upstart Crow : San Diego CA
Walden Pond : Oakland CA
Waiting for Godot Books : Hadley MA
What the Dickens : Auckland, New Zealand
White Rabbot, The : La Jolla CA
Worm, The : Sedona AZ
Yellow Book Road, The : La Mesa CA
Bizarre and Unusual Names for Bookstores
Bananafish Books : New Holland PA
Bookworm & Silverfish : Wytheville VA
Chapter Eleven Discount Bookstore : Atlanta GA
The Dancing Goat Bookshop : Norfolk UK
Frozen Lava Lamp : Brooklyn NY
Glued to the Tube Books : Minneapolis MN
Happyfish Books : London UK
House of Unruly Fish : USA
Klunky Monkey Coffee, Books and More : Colorado
Loup Garou Books : Micanopy FL (means skin-shifter or werewolf)
Onychomys Torridus Books : Palm Springs CA (means grasshopper mouse)
Purplefishbooks : Evanston IL
Sapsucker Books : Grafton VT (natural history)
Scuzzydog Books : Houston TX
Squid Ink Books : Tucson AZ
stevethefish : Leeds UK
Oh So Dull Bookstore Names
(Places are not listed for these names because unfortunately they are all over the map. Ugh!)
Book Barn
Book Bin
Book Case
Book Cellar
Book Center
Book Connection
Book Corner
Book End(s)
Book Loft
Book Mark
Book Market
Book Mart
Book Nook
Book Rack
Book Shelf
Book Shop
Book Stall
Book Stop
Book Store
Book Worm
Books Etc
Books Galore
Books Plus
Publishers with Weird Names
Clothespin Fever Press : La Mesa CA
Cow Puddle Press : Sunset TX
Elastic Press : UK
Half Halt Press : Boonsboro MD
Hanging Loose Press : San Francisco CA
Kitchen Sink Press : Princeton WI
Klutz Press : Palo Alto CA
Laffing Cow Press : Saratoga WY
Loompanics : Port Townsend WA
Mad Cow Press : Eugene OR
Madwoman Press : Northborough MA
MonkeyBrain Books : Austin TX
Mud Puddle Inc : NYC
No Starch Press : San Francisco CA
Out of Your Mind and Into the Marketplace : Tustin CA
Peanut Butter Publishing : Seattle WA
Plutonium : Pyrmont, Australia
Pookatales Press : Meridian ID
Rubberstampede : Berkeley CA
Runcible Spoon Press : Sacramento CA
Soft Skull Press : NYC
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