Links & Philly Bookstores

Back in the late 90s, before there were search engines, like-minded websites banded together under an organizing structure called a webring. Each website in the ring linked to a fellow ring website, and sometimes there was main directory website for the ring itself (RIP Anime Turnpike). We don’t really do that anymore, but I often wish we did. Please find some like-minded links below.

local area networks
METROPOLARITY
Black Quantum Futurism
Deep Space Mind 215
Alexoteric [broken]
Rasheedah.net
brownstargirl.org

easy listening

presses & self-publishers
Contagion Press
Rivers Furnace [fka The Booklet Series]
House of Future Sciences

healers & mages
Vetiver Healing Arts
Alice Sparkly Kat
Jessica Dore
The Astrology Podcast


Philly bookstores

Atomic City Comics (comics & manga specialty)
638 South St, 19147

Avril 50 (magazine specialty)
3406 Sansom St, 19104

Bindlestiff Books (kids specialty)
4530 Baltimore Ave, 19143

Bookhaven (used specialty – my fave in the city)
2202 Fairmount Ave, 19130

Brickbat Books (rare used specialty)
704 S 4th St, 19147

Giovanni’s Room (queer specialty)
345 S 12th St, 19107

Hakim’s Bookstore (historical! Black Philly specialty)
210 S. 52nd Street, 19139

Harriets Bookshop (Black womanist specialty)
258 E. Girard Ave, 1912

Iffy Books (hacker specialty) *has my books!
404 S. 20th St, 19103

Lot 49 (used books & zines specialty)
408 E Girard Ave, 19125

Multiverse (BIPOC nerd, comics specialty)
8026 Germantown Ave, 19118

A Novel Idea (cozy vibe speciality)
1726 E Passyunk Ave, 19148

Partners & Son (indie comics specialty)
618 S 6th St, 19147

Tree House Books (kids & community specialty)
1430 W Susquehanna Ave, 19121

ULISES (art book specialty)
1525 N American Street, Studio 104, 19122

Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books (Black Philly specialty)
5445 Germantown Ave, 19144

Wooden Shoe Books (infoshop/anarchist specialty)
704 South St, 19147

Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center (NYC satellite of Common Notions press)
210 S. 45th Street, 19104

Used Book Stores cont’d
The Book Trader – 7 N 2nd St, 19106
Mostly Books – 529 Bainbridge St, 19147
Neighborhood Books – 1906 South St, 19146
Book Corner – 311 N 20th St, 19103
House of Our Own – 3920 Spruce St, 19104
The Last Word – 220 S 40th St, 19104

Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse (BIPOC specialty)
2578 Frankford Ave, 19125

People’s Books & Culture (fka Penn Book Center)
130 S 34th St, 19104