Bookstores in Belleville

Belleville, ON has 13 bookstores on the map. That's 13 bookshops mapped around Belleville, each with its own shelves and specialties. The used sections are where the real bargains hide. Give yourself an hour minimum — bookshops are the one errand that always takes longer than planned.

This guide covers every bookstore we could verify in and around Belleville (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Books & Company and Kerr's Corner Books, plus Lighthouse Books. If a bookshop's missing from Belleville's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Belleville bookstore lineup

13 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about bookstores in Belleville

2 of the 13 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.

2 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.

The Belleville bookstore crawl

Making a day of it in Belleville? Work this order: Books & Company on 289 Main Street, Kerr's Corner Books on 39 Bridge Street East, Lighthouse Books, Read and Green Bookstore, Chapters, The Book Store, Need a Hero? Comics, and The Tweed News on 242 Victoria Street North. That's the bookstore crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 5 more are listed below.

Bookstore tips for Belleville

The regulars' playbook for Belleville's bookshops:

• Check the sale shelf rhythm at Books & Company. Shops clear shelves on cycles. Ask when the next cull happens — that's when the bargains land.
• Visit during author events at Kerr's Corner Books. Readings and signings are usually free and turn a bookshop into the best evening out in town.
• Ask for the out-of-print hunters. Some used shops will hunt down out-of-print titles for you. It takes patience, but the find is worth it.
• Kids' sections are goldmines. Even without kids. The picture-book art alone is worth the browse, and the middle-grade shelves hold genuine classics.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Belleville — 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 Belleville can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 13, 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 13 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.