Local Bookstores
Some of our favorite local bookstores! Check out their offerings in-store or online (or via IndieBound), but especially their calendar of events for speakers and special events!
Changing Hands Bookstore
Changing Hands is Arizona's leading independent bookstore, offering new and used books, unique gifts, toys, and more than 300 author events every year. The Phoenix location is just up the street on Camelback, including First Drafts Bar.
Half Price Books
HPB's founders founders coined the phrase, “We buy and sell everything ever printed or recorded (except yesterday’s newspaper).” And if you’ve been to one of their stores, you know that’s true.
Palabras Bilingual Bookstore
Palabras is a local community and cultural hub with a specially curated diverse collection of books, an art gallery, a workshop and event space and small mutual aid garden. The store is just down 7th Avenue on Roosevelt.
The Poisoned Pen
Located in Old Town Scottsdale’s Art District, The Poisoned Pen is an independent bookstore specializing in fiction. Discover current and classic works of mystery, thrillers, historical and literary fiction, and literature of the American Southwest, much of it offered in Autographed First Editions and imports.
Wasted Ink Zine Distro
Next door to Palabras, Wasted Ink stocks independent and self-published works by more than 300 creators of diverse backgrounds, including LGBTQIA+, disabled, chronically ill, and Arizona authors and illustrators. The shop is developing a reading library that will make more than 1,000 titles more accessible to the community.