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Pittsburgh Bookstores

  • BookWeb: Booksellers in Pittsburgh
    Listings from the American Booksellers Association. Check also the neighboring towns.

  • Barnes and Noble
    http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
    This is the national site. You can search for stores by zip code and they will give you addresses, hours, map, and events. Stores are in Cranberry, Greensburg, Monroeville, North Fayette, South Hills Village, Squirrel Hill, Waterfront, and Waterworks.

  • Borders Book Stores
    http://www.bordersstores.com/
    Borders has 4 stores in the Pittsburgh Region and the links below will tell you what they have on their events calendar. Their online sales are through Amazon. Click on the locations below to view their events.
  • Monroeville
  • North Hills
  • Bethel Park
  • The Mills

  • Caliban Bookshop
    http://www.calibanbooks.com/
    A used book store on South Craig Street in Oakland that specializes in Literary First Editions, Fine Arts, Poetry, Exploration & Travel, Americana, Philosophy, General Scholarly, Fine Press, and Leatherbound Editions

  • Carnegie Mellon University Bookstore
    http://bookstore.web.cmu.edu/
    Offers special orders, textbooks, CMU memorabilia.

  • Jay's Bookstall
    An independent bookstore located on Fifth in Oakland near the University of Pittsburgh.

  • Joseph-Beth Booksellers
    http://www.josephbeth.com/
    Joseph-Beth's new Pittsburgh store is located in the new South Side Works shopping area on the South Side near Hot Metal Bridge.

  • Mystery Lovers Bookshop
    http://www.mysterylovers.com/
    an Oakmont store selling paperback and hardback mysteries of all kinds.

  • Phantom of the Attic
    http://ww3.telerama.com/~phantom/
    Comic books

  • Pinskers Bookstore (1-800-JUDAISM)
    http://www.judaism.com/books/
    Offers the widest and most informed selection of Jewish interest Books on the internet. Located on Murray Avenue, Squirrel Hill.

  • Pittsburgh Used Books
    http://www.pittsburghusedbooks.com/
    Margie Spenser has been compiling and disseminating a guide to Used Book Sales and Stores in and around Allegheny County since early 2001 and put it online in 2005. Included are sales at libraries.

  • Townsend Booksellers
    http://www.townsendbooksellers.com/
    Located off of South Craig Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Townsend's offers fine used, rare, out-of-print, scholarly and unusual books in all fields bought & sold. Over 30,000 volumes.

  • University of Pittsburgh Book Center
    http://www.pitt.edu/~bookctr/
    Almost 90,000 general reading titles and over 18,000 classroom textbooks, as well as the largest calendar collection in the US.