Independent bookstores are small bookselling businesses, usually with one or a small number of locations in a limited geographic area. They contrast with corporate or chain bookstores, operated by a larger company, often with many stores across a large area.
Australia
Foreign Language Bookshop, Melbourne
Canada
Aqua Books in Winnipeg, Manitoba (defunct)
Attic Books in London, Ontario
Bakka-Phoenix in Toronto, Ontario
Bison Books in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Book City in Toronto, Ontario
The Book Room in Halifax, Nova Scotia was, at the time of its 2008 closing, the oldest bookstore in Canada (defunct)
Camas Bookstore and Infoshop in Victoria, British Columbia
Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto, Ontario
Highway Book Shop near Cobalt, Ontario (defunct)
Hyman's Book and Art Shoppe, independent Jewish bookstore in Toronto, Ontario (defunct)
Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium in Vancouver, British Columbia
McNally Robinson, small independently run chain of stores across Canada
Mondragon Bookstore & Coffeehouse in Winnipeg, Manitoba (defunct)
The Monkey's Paw in Toronto, Ontario
Munro's Books in Victoria, British Columbia
Spartacus Books in Vancouver, British Columbia
This Ain't the Rosedale Library in Toronto, Ontario (defunct)
Toronto Women's Bookstore in Toronto, Ontario (defunct)
The Word Bookstore in Montreal
France
José Corti in Paris
Shakespeare and Company in Paris
Germany
BuchGourmet in Cologne
Greenland
Atuagkat Bookstore in Nuuk
India
Champaca Bookstore, Bangalore and Goa
Ireland
An Ceathrú Póilí in Belfast
No Alibis (bookshop) in Belfast
Kenny's Bookshop, in Liosban, Galway
Israel
Sefer ve Sefel, Jerusalem
Jordan
Al-Jahith's Treasury
Norway
Bokshop.no in Oslo
Philippines
Solidaridad book shop in the Ermita district of Manila