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Independent Bookstores in Hawaii

NewPages.com guide to the best Hawaii indie bookstores

Independent bookstores in Hawaii are sorted by City as you scroll through. If your favorite indie bookstore is missing, please contact us.

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Basically Books
  • Basically Books
  • 334 Kilauea Ave.
  • City: Hilo
  • Phone: (808) 961-0144
  • Type: Primarily new with some used books
  • Specialty: Academic, Children's, Educational, Regional, YA
  • Sidelines: Gifts, Greeting Cards/Postcards, Puzzles, Stationery, Toys/Games
  • Events: Author Signings
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Basically Books specializes in books, maps and gifts with a Hawaiian theme. Our children’s section includes books, plush, toys, puppets. Bath and body products and local crafts are made in Hawai’i. Since first opening in 1985, we have grown and evolved into a gathering place in Hilo for authors. Special events at the store help us connect members of our community.

  • Big Island BookBuyers
  • 14 Waianuenue Ave.
  • City: Hilo
  • Phone: (808) 315-5335
  • Type: Primarily used with some new books
  • Specialty: Children's, Regional
  • Sidelines: Artwork, Greeting Cards/Postcards
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Big Island BookBuyers is a great source for gently used and out of print used books and DVDs. And we also carry a selection of new materials including books of the Hawaiiana, tour guide and local author genres, as well as maps, calendars and locally produced greeting cards. Our bookstore is located in downtown Hilo and offers a great selection of pocket (mass market) paperbacks – Science Fiction, Fantasy, Thrillers, Mysteries, Horror, and more. Included in our thousands of book titles are topics in spirituality, self-help, gardening, cooking, history, science, art, poetry, Hawaiiana, voyaging, children’s, and more. Several hundred new titles are added to our shelves every week.

  • Turn the Page
  • 224 Kamehameha Ave. Sute #106
  • City: Hilo
  • Phone: (808) 731-7200
  • Type: Used books
  • Specialty: General Interest
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  • da Shop
  • 3565 Harding Ave.
  • City: Honolulu
  • Phone: (808) 421-9460
  • Type: New books
  • Specialty: General Interest, Children's
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da Shop is a community bookstore and events space carrying bestseller books, Hawaiiana literature, cookbooks and literature, youth books K-12, gifts, and more.

Welina mai nei! We are a community resource focused on distributing the best books, music, and DVDs on Hawai’i and the Pacific. Also featuring made in Hawaii products by Hawaiian and local artisans: wood, lauhala, Ni’ihau shells, clothing, and more.

  • Native Books
  • 1164 Nuʻuanu Ave.
  • City: Honolulu
  • Suburb of: Chinatown
  • Phone: (808) 548-5554
  • Type: Primarily new with some used books, Rare books, Out-of-print books
  • Specialty: Regional
  • Sidelines: Artwork, Calendars, Greeting Cards/Postcards, Puzzles, Stationery
  • Events: Author Signings, Book Clubs, Readings, Storytime
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Native Books is a place with pride and respect for Hawaiians and Hawaiian culture. Because of this pride and respect, we want to share information about culture, language, and traditions with those who are interested in learning. We include ourselves in this learning process. Native Books is a tool to assist all who want to acquire those relationships and deepen existing relationships to place, and to the essence of indigenous thinking as articulated by kanaka ‘ōiwi.

  • Skull-Face Bookstore
  • 1148 Bethel St
  • City: Honolulu
  • Suburb of: Chinatown
  • Type: New books, Used books, Primarily new with some used books
  • Specialty: Art, Comics/Graphic Novels, Science Fiction/Fantasy
  • Sidelines: Vinyl
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All things deep, dark, weird, or hard!  New and used books, DVDs, and vinyl.  Horror, crime, counterculture, sci-fi/fantasy, graphic novels, rock, punk, metal, art, design, photography, literature, philosophy, religion, history, kids books, and more!

  • BookEnds
  • 600 Kailua Rd. #126
  • City: Kailua
  • Phone: (808) 261-1996
  • Type: Primarily new with some used books
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BookEnds in Kailua is an independent neighborhood bookstore, with an extensive selection of new and used books and an excellent staff of helpful people.

Kona Stories

  • Kona Stories
  • 78-6831 Ali'i Drive #142 
  • City: Kailua-Kona
  • Phone: (808) 324-0350
  • Type: New books
  • Specialty: General Interest, Children's, Regional
  • Sidelines: Gifts, Magazines
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Bookshop featuring all genres of new and used books, as well as magazines and gifts. We carry a large selection of Hawaiiana and children’s books.

  • Talk Story Bookstore
  • 1-2600 Kaumualii Hwy, #3B
  • City: Kaumakani
  • Phone: (808) 335-6469
  • Type: Primarily used with some new books
  • Specialty: General Interest, Regional
  • Sidelines: Gifts
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We specialize in a diverse selection of over 100,000 fine secondhand, new, and out-of-print books, as well as locally-made gifts, LPs and Hawaiian records, Hawaiian Slack Key & Ukulele lesson courses, and much more!

We are the largest used bookstore in Hawaii, featuring over two miles of books.