Bookpeople Book Store

BookPeople, located in Austin, Texas, offers a wide range of books and educational resources to communities. The library has a collection of various items for children, teens and adults, including books, videos and DVDs. It provides various services that include online access to library accounts, career resources, a children s section, newspapers, encyclopedias, biographies, genealogy...

Find sale books on the front tables and throughout the store. For easy, inexpensive gifts go to the "mini-book" section on the first floor.

Parking is available in the lot across from the store and in the garage on Henderson Street.

This is one of the largest and best independent bookstores you're likely to find these days. Expanded in the mid-1990s from its New Age roots, but remaining stubbornly quirky and independent, this BookPeople stocks more than 250,000 titles ranging over a wide variety of subjects. It also sells technical videos, books on tape, and gift items (the KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD T-shirt is their bestseller)....

It’s astonishing enough that BookPeople has managed to remain in business and independent for nearly 40 years; most promising little bookstores are bought out by national chains long before they reach such critical mass. Even more surprising is the fact that BookPeople can back up its claim to be “a refuge for the contemplative,” a three-story monument to intellectual growth. Their university...

In Short
A literary mover and shaker, BookPeople has books and magazines for all, and sells gifts and jewelry. It also serves as a popular stop-off for author tours. Austin's New Age bent...

BookPeople has been Texas' leading independent bookstore since 1970. Located in the heart of downtown, BookPeople has been voted best bookstore in Austin for over 15 years. The rest of the country has caught on too; BookPeople was voted Bookstore of the Year by Publisher's Weekly in 2005. With visits from some of the most interesting and important authors of the past 35 years, as well as by...