Bookstores in Bangor

Bookstores reward the browsers. Bangor, Maine has 2 mapped right now. That's 2 bookshops mapped around Bangor, each with its own shelves and specialties. The used sections are where the real bargains hide.

This guide covers every bookstore we could verify in and around Bangor (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Pro Libris Bookshop and Books-A-Million. If a bookshop's missing from Bangor's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Bangor bookstore lineup

2 in Bangor, plus 1 more around Bangor below:

What the map tells us about bookstores in Bangor

1 of the 2 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.

The two mapped bookstores sit on 10 Third Street and 116 Bangor Mall Boulevard — close enough to make a single outing of it.

The Bangor bookstore crawl

The efficient Bangor bookstore crawl strings these together: Pro Libris Bookshop on 10 Third Street and Books-A-Million on 116 Bangor Mall Boulevard — 2 stops, one logical order.

Bookstore tips for Bangor

Browsing in Bangor? A little strategy helps:

• Check the bargain carts outside at Pro Libris Bookshop. Sidewalk carts are the shop's clearance rack. A dollar a book, and the turnover is fast.
• Ask for the out-of-print hunters at Books-A-Million. Some used shops will hunt down out-of-print titles for you. It takes patience, but the find is worth it.
• Look for local history. The local-interest shelf tells you what a town thinks of itself. Great for visitors, better for new residents.
• Note the shop's specialties. Sci-fi, travel, art books, philosophy — every good shop leans somewhere. Find the lean that matches yours.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Bangor — 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 Bangor can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 2, or a bookstore we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

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 2 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 Bangor

1 more within about 40 km of Bangor, nearest first: