API-Owned Bookstores to Support

This directory is regularly updated to reflect new stores. Last update: 5/9/2022


In celebration of Asian American Heritage Month and Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we’ve put together this directory of API-owned bookstores based in the US, Canada, and online. Check each listing for the store’s website, as well as links for following them on social media.

Looking for more? You can also browse our collection of audiobooks by AAPI authors, take a quiz to find an AAPI-authored audiobook, and use our Bookstore Finder to locate a store near you.

Stores listed with Libro.fm Storefronts below are Libro.fm partner stores, meaning that when you purchase audiobooks from their Libro.fm Storefront, it directly supports their bookstore.

Bookstores: Want to become a Libro.fm partner store? Email bookstores@libro.fm, and we’ll take care of the rest.


United States

California

A Good Used Book
Los Angeles, CA

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Arkipelago Books
San Francisco, CA

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Bel Canto Books
Long Beach, CA

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East Village Bookshop
Sacramento, CA

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Eastwind Books
Berkeley, CA

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Face in a Book
El Dorado Hills, CA

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Giant Robot Store
Los Angeles, CA

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Now Serving
Los Angeles, CA

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Orphan Books
Los Angeles, CA

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Philippine Expressions Bookshop
Los Angeles, CA

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PostalWorks SilverLake
Los Angeles, CA

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Reasonable Books
Lafayette, CA

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Shop@PAM (USC Pacific Asia Museum)
Los Angeles, CA

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Colorado

Townie Books
Crested Butte, CO

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Georgia

Maomi Bookstore
Chamblee, GA

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Hawaii

Native Books
Honolulu, HI

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Iowa

Reading in Public Bookstore + Cafe
West Des Moines, IA

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Maryland

Atomic Books
Baltimore, MD

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Michigan

27th Letter Books
Detroit, MI

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New York

Eastern Bookstore
New York, NY

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Hudson Valley Books for Humanity
Ossining, NY

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Yu and Me Books
New York, NY

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Oregon

Green Bean Books
Portland, OR

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Waucoma Books
Hood River, OR

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Pennsylvania

Making Worlds Bookstore and Social Center
Philadelphia, PA

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Washington

Wing Luke Museum
Seattle, WA

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Canada


Annab’s Bookstore
Victoria, BC

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Appetite for Books
Montréal, QC

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The Book Wardrobe
Mississauga, ON

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Humpty Dumpty Books & Music
Vancouver, BC

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Little Kozzi
Toronto, ON & Vancouver, BC

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Sonsuh Educational Supplies
Toronto, ON

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Online + Pop-up


Belonging Books
Pop-up in Cape Cod, MA

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Femme Fire Books
Online

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The Lev (on hiatus)
Online

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narrated objects
Online

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Tahanan Books
Online (Shipping from Seattle, WA)

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The Gentle Bookshop
Online

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Looking for more?

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See any AAPI-owned bookstores we’ve missed? Let us know in the comments below!