Bookstores in Camden
Camden, Maine has 3 bookstores on the map. That's 3 bookshops mapped around Camden, 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 Camden (within about 45 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Sherman's Books and Stationery and Stone Soup Books, plus Owl & Turtle Bookshop Cafe. If a bookshop's missing from Camden's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Camden bookstore lineup
3 in Camden, plus 10 more around Camden below:
Sherman's Books and Stationery
Bookstore0.1 km from Camden
Sherman's Books and Stationery — Bookstore.
Stone Soup Books
Bookstore0.1 km from Camden
Stone Soup Books is Bookstore.
Owl & Turtle Bookshop Cafe
Bookstore0.1 km from Camden
Owl & Turtle Bookshop Cafe — Bookstore on 33 Bay View Street.
33 Bay View Street, 04843
What the map tells us about bookstores in Camden
None of the 3 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Bookshops keep fairly standard hours, so a daytime visit is a safe bet.
The one mapped bookstore sits on 33 Bay View Street — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.
The Camden bookstore crawl
Making a day of it in Camden? Work this order: Sherman's Books and Stationery, Stone Soup Books, and Owl & Turtle Bookshop Cafe on 33 Bay View Street. That's the bookstore crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking.
Bookstore tips for Camden
Browsing in Camden? A little strategy helps:
- Buy the signed copy at Sherman's Books and Stationery. Signed stock costs the same as unsigned and only goes up in charm. Ask at the till; shops often have signed copies behind the counter.
- Don't overlook the classics wall at Stone Soup Books. Every shop has one. Cheap editions of the books everyone claims to have read — your chance to actually read them.
- Check the cookbook section. Cookbooks are the most browsed and least bought section, which means the used shelf is full of barely-touched gems.
- 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 45 km around Camden — 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 Camden can take a while to appear. The 3 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 3 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 Camden
10 more within about 45 km of Camden, nearest first:
Sherman's Maine Coast Book Shop
Bookstore10.9 km from Camden
Sherman's Maine Coast Book Shop — Bookstore, found on 47 Maverick Street in Rockland. Also worth knowing about Sherman's Maine Coast Book Shop: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 09:00-18:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
47 Maverick Street, Rockland, 04841
Hours: Mo-Su 09:00-18:00
Phone: +1-207-420-8210
hello hello books
Bookstore12.4 km from Camden
hello hello books — Bookstore, found on 316 Main Street in Rockland. Also worth knowing about hello hello books: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
316 Main Street, Rockland, 04841
Phone: +1-207-593-7780
Left Bank Books
Bookstore24.4 km from Camden
Left Bank Books — Bookstore on 109 Church Street. Also worth knowing about Left Bank Books: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:30-17:30, 09:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-17:00; Su 11:00-16:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
109 Church Street
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:30-17:30, 09:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-17:00; Su 11:00-16:00
Phone: +1-207-338-9009
Craig Olson Books
Bookstore24.5 km from Camden
Craig Olson Books is Bookstore on 99 Main Street, Belfast. Craig Olson Books also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-16:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
99 Main Street, Belfast, 04915
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-16:00
Phone: +1-207-338-2006
anodyne book shop
Bookstore28.2 km from Camden
anodyne book shop is Bookstore on 175 West Main Street, Searsport. anodyne book shop also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
175 West Main Street, Searsport
Academy Bookstore
Bookstore28.7 km from CamdenRun by Maine Maritime Academy
Run by Maine Maritime Academy, Academy Bookstore is Bookstore, found on 54 Pleasant Street in Castine.
54 Pleasant Street, Castine, 04421
Skidompha Secondhand Books
Bookstore42.0 km from Camden
Skidompha Secondhand Books is Bookstore. Skidompha Secondhand Books also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 09:00-18:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
04543
Hours: Mo-Su 09:00-18:00
Phone: +1 207 5637808
Sherman's Maine Coast Book Shop
Bookstore42.1 km from Camden
Sherman's Maine Coast Book Shop — Bookstore on 158 Main Street. Also worth knowing about Sherman's Maine Coast Book Shop: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 09:00-18:00; it has a website with more detail.
158 Main Street, 04543
Hours: Mo-Su 09:00-18:00
Blue Hill Books
Bookstore44.3 km from Camden
Blue Hill Books — Bookstore.
Boxcar Books
Bookstore44.3 km from Camden
Boxcar Books is Bookstore on 29 Gordon Hill Road, Thorndike.
29 Gordon Hill Road, Thorndike, 04986
Bookstore listings for Camden: 3 in Camden and 10 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.