Bookstores in Albuquerque
If you judge a town by its bookshops, Albuquerque, New Mexico gives you 17 to judge by. That's 17 bookshops mapped around Albuquerque, each with its own shelves and specialties. The used sections are where the real bargains hide. Staff picks shelves are the fastest way to read a shop's personality.
This guide covers every bookstore we could verify in and around Albuquerque (within about 25 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Downtown Books & Beans and Central New Mexico Community College Bookstore, plus Treasure House. If a bookshop's missing from Albuquerque's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Albuquerque bookstore lineup
17 in Albuquerque, plus 1 more around Albuquerque below:
Downtown Books & Beans
Bookstore0.6 km from Albuquerque
Downtown Books & Beans is Bookstore on 109 8th Street Southwest, Albuquerque.
109 8th Street Southwest, Albuquerque
Central New Mexico Community College Bookstore
Bookstore2.2 km from Albuquerque
Central New Mexico Community College Bookstore is Bookstore on 723 University Boulevard Southeast, Albuquerque.
723 University Boulevard Southeast, Albuquerque, 87106
Treasure House
Bookstore2.2 km from Albuquerque
Treasure House is Bookstore.
University of New Mexico Bookstore
Bookstore2.8 km from AlbuquerqueRun by UNM
University of New Mexico Bookstore is Bookstore run by UNM on 2301 Central Avenue Northeast, Albuquerque. University of New Mexico Bookstore also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
2301 Central Avenue Northeast, Albuquerque, 87106
Phone: +1-505-277-5451
UNM Bookstore
Bookstore2.8 km from Albuquerque
UNM Bookstore — Bookstore.
Bookcase
Bookstore2.8 km from Albuquerque
Bookcase is Bookstore.
UNM Medical Legal Bookstore
Bookstore3.0 km from AlbuquerqueRun by UNM
Run by UNM, UNM Medical Legal Bookstore is Bookstore, found on 1001 Stanford Drive Northeast in Albuquerque.
1001 Stanford Drive Northeast, Albuquerque, 87106
Christian Science Reading Room
Bookstore3.7 km from Albuquerque
Christian Science Reading Room is Bookstore on 114 Richmond Drive Southeast, Albuquerque. Christian Science Reading Room also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-17:00; Sa 10:00-15:00; Su closed; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
114 Richmond Drive Southeast, Albuquerque, 87106
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-17:00; Sa 10:00-15:00; Su closed
Phone: +1-505-255-7244
Organic Books
Bookstore4.2 km from Albuquerque
Organic Books — Bookstore, found on 111 Carlisle Boulevard Southeast in Albuquerque.
111 Carlisle Boulevard Southeast, Albuquerque, 87106
Bird Song Used Books
Bookstore5.0 km from Albuquerque
Bird Song Used Books is Bookstore.
Bookworks
Bookstore6.2 km from Albuquerque
Bookworks — Bookstore, found on 4022 Rio Grande Boulevard Northwest in Albuquerque. Also worth knowing about Bookworks: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-18:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
4022 Rio Grande Boulevard Northwest, Albuquerque, 87107-3100
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-18:00
Phone: +1-505-344-8139
Barnes & Noble
Bookstore7.7 km from Albuquerque
Barnes & Noble — Bookstore, found on 6600 Menaul Boulevard Northeast in Albuquerque. Also worth knowing about Barnes & Noble: the map lists its hours as Su 11:00-18:00; Mo-Sa 09:00-20:00; PH off; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
6600 Menaul Boulevard Northeast, Albuquerque, 87110
Hours: Su 11:00-18:00; Mo-Sa 09:00-20:00; PH off
Phone: +1-505-883-8200
Books on the Bosque
Bookstore8.4 km from Albuquerque
Books on the Bosque is Bookstore on 6261 Riverside Plaza Lane Northwest. Books on the Bosque also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:00-19:00; Su 09:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
6261 Riverside Plaza Lane Northwest, 87120
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:00-19:00; Su 09:00-17:00
Phone: +1 505 525 9114
Title Wave Books
Bookstore9.4 km from Albuquerque
Title Wave Books — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Title Wave Books: the map lists its hours as Tu-Fr 10:00-18:00; Sa 09:00-18:00.
Hours: Tu-Fr 10:00-18:00; Sa 09:00-18:00
Bibles Plus Books & Gifts
Bookstore9.9 km from Albuquerque
Bibles Plus Books & Gifts is Bookstore. Bibles Plus Books & Gifts also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:30-18:00.
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:30-18:00
Page 1 Books
Used bookstore13.2 km from Albuquerque
Page 1 Books — Used bookstore, found on 5850 Eubank Boulevard Northeast in Albuquerque. Also worth knowing about Page 1 Books: the map lists its hours as Mo-Th, Su 10:00-18:00; Fr, Sa 10:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
5850 Eubank Boulevard Northeast, Albuquerque, 87111
Hours: Mo-Th, Su 10:00-18:00; Fr, Sa 10:00-19:00
Phone: +1-505-294-2026
Barnes & Noble
Bookstore13.8 km from Albuquerque
Barnes & Noble — Bookstore, found on 3701 Ellison Road Northwest in Albuquerque.
3701 Ellison Road Northwest, Albuquerque, 87114
What the map tells us about bookstores in Albuquerque
7 of the 17 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
6 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.
The Albuquerque bookstore crawl
The efficient Albuquerque bookstore crawl strings these together: Downtown Books & Beans on 109 8th Street Southwest, Central New Mexico Community College Bookstore on 723 University Boulevard Southeast, Treasure House, University of New Mexico Bookstore on 2301 Central Avenue Northeast, UNM Bookstore, Bookcase, UNM Medical Legal Bookstore on 1001 Stanford Drive Northeast, and Christian Science Reading Room on 114 Richmond Drive Southeast — 17 stops, one logical order. 9 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Albuquerque
The regulars' playbook for Albuquerque's bookshops:
- Magazines and journals matter at Downtown Books & Beans. The little-magazine rack is where new writers appear first. Cheap, weird, and full of discoveries.
- Visit during author events at Central New Mexico Community College Bookstore. Readings and signings are usually free and turn a bookshop into the best evening out in town.
- Ask about the book club discount. Many shops discount book-club orders. If your club buys local, everyone wins.
- Don't overlook the classics wall. Every shop has one. Cheap editions of the books everyone claims to have read — your chance to actually read them.
Good to know
We searched about 25 km around Albuquerque — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new bookstore in Albuquerque can take a while to appear. The 17 above are only as current as the community map. A bookstore that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.
We don't list prices — they change constantly and vary by edition. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers, in alphabetical order with no favourites.
If you run one of the 17 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.
Worth the trip: more bookstores around Albuquerque
1 more within about 25 km of Albuquerque, nearest first:
Believer's Christian Gifts
Bookstore18.1 km from Albuquerque
Believer's Christian Gifts — Bookstore, found on 2003 Southern Boulevard Southeast in Rio Rancho.
2003 Southern Boulevard Southeast, Rio Rancho, 87124
Bookstore listings for Albuquerque: 17 in Albuquerque and 1 more nearby mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.