Bookstores in Halifax
Halifax, NS has 18 bookstores on the map. That's 18 bookshops mapped around Halifax, 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 Halifax (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Indigo and Woozles Children's Bookstore, plus Strange Adventures. If a bookshop's missing from Halifax's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Halifax bookstore lineup
18 mapped within about 40 km:
Indigo
Bookstore
Indigo — Bookstore, found on 41 Micmac Boulevard in Dartmouth. Also worth knowing about Indigo: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
41 Micmac Boulevard, Dartmouth, B3A 4Y8
Phone: +1 902-466-1640
Woozles Children's Bookstore
Bookstore
Woozles Children's Bookstore is Bookstore on 1533 Birmingham Street, Halifax. Woozles Children's 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.
1533 Birmingham Street, Halifax
Phone: +1-902-423-7626
Strange Adventures
Bookstore
Strange Adventures is Bookstore on 101 Portland Street, Dartmouth. Strange Adventures also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
101 Portland Street, Dartmouth, B2Y 1H7
Phone: +1 902-444-2140
Strange Adventures
Bookstore
Strange Adventures is Bookstore on 5110 Prince Street, Halifax. Strange Adventures also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
5110 Prince Street, Halifax, B3J 1L3
Phone: +1-902-425-2140
Bookmark
Bookstore
Bookmark is Bookstore on 5686 Spring Garden Road, Halifax. Bookmark also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:00-21:00; Sa 10:00-18:00; Su 11:00-18:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
5686 Spring Garden Road, Halifax
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:00-21:00; Sa 10:00-18:00; Su 11:00-18:00
Phone: +1 902-423-0419
Monster Comic Lounge
Bookstore
Monster Comic Lounge is Bookstore on 2089 Gottingen Street, Halifax. Monster Comic Lounge also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as We-Fr 10:00-21:00; Mo 11:00-18:00; Tu 10:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-17:00; Su 12:00-17:00; it has a website with more detail.
2089 Gottingen Street, Halifax
Hours: We-Fr 10:00-21:00; Mo 11:00-18:00; Tu 10:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-17:00; Su 12:00-17:00
Art
Bookstore
Art — Bookstore, found on 1274 Hollis Street in Halifax.
1274 Hollis Street, Halifax
Dalhousie Bookstore
Bookstore
Dalhousie Bookstore is Bookstore. Dalhousie Bookstore also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
John W. Doull, Bookseller
Used bookstore
John W. Doull, Bookseller — Used bookstore, found on 122 Main Street in Dartmouth. Also worth knowing about John W. Doull, Bookseller: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
122 Main Street, Dartmouth, B2X 1R9
Phone: +1 902-429-1652
Indigo
Bookstore
Indigo — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Indigo: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Phone: +1-902-450-1023
Indigo
Bookstore
Indigo — Bookstore, found on 1595 Bedford Highway in Bedford. Also worth knowing about Indigo: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-19:00; Sa 10:00-18:00; Su 12:00-17:00.
1595 Bedford Highway, Bedford, B4A 3Y4
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-19:00; Sa 10:00-18:00; Su 12:00-17:00
Quality Used Books
Bookstore
Quality Used Books — Bookstore, found on 211 Pleasant Street in Dartmouth.
211 Pleasant Street, Dartmouth, B2Y 3R5
King's Co-op Bookstore
Bookstore
King's Co-op Bookstore — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about King's Co-op Bookstore: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:00-16:00; Sa 10:00-16:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:00-16:00; Sa 10:00-16:00
Phone: +1 902-422-1271
Maps & More
Bookstore
Maps & More — Bookstore, found on 1601 Lower Water Street in Halifax. Also worth knowing about Maps & More: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-18:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
1601 Lower Water Street, Halifax, B3J 3P6
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-18:00
Phone: +1 902 422-7106
Otis & Clementine's
Bookstore
Otis & Clementine's is Bookstore on 5209 St Margarets Bay Road, Upper Tantallon. Otis & Clementine's also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
5209 St Margarets Bay Road, Upper Tantallon, B3Z 1E3
Agricola Street Books
Bookstore
Agricola Street Books — Bookstore, found on 2684 Agricola Street in Halifax. Also worth knowing about Agricola Street Books: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-18:00; Su 10:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
2684 Agricola Street, Halifax, B3K 4C9
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-18:00; Su 10:00-17:00
Phone: +1 902-453-7993
Pages and Pieces
Used bookstore
Pages and Pieces — Used bookstore, found on 589 Highway 2 in Elmsdale. Also worth knowing about Pages and Pieces: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
589 Highway 2, Elmsdale, B2S 1A4
Phone: +1 902-259-2590
Coles
Bookstore
Coles is Bookstore on 7001 Mumford Road, Halifax.
7001 Mumford Road, Halifax
What the map tells us about bookstores in Halifax
6 of the 18 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
11 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.
Most of the bookstores in Halifax list a phone number. Useful for checking whether a specific title is in stock before you visit.
2 of the shops are tagged as selling used books — the second-hand shelves are where out-of-print gems and first editions turn up for pocket change.
The Halifax bookstore crawl
Making a day of it in Halifax? Work this order: Indigo on 41 Micmac Boulevard, Woozles Children's Bookstore on 1533 Birmingham Street, Strange Adventures on 101 Portland Street, Strange Adventures on 5110 Prince Street, Bookmark on 5686 Spring Garden Road, Monster Comic Lounge on 2089 Gottingen Street, Art on 1274 Hollis Street, and Dalhousie Bookstore. That's the bookstore crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 10 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Halifax
A few things worth knowing before you work through Halifax's bookstores:
- Learn the remainders table at Indigo. Publisher overstocks sold cheap. Great for gift buying — new books at used prices.
- Check the staff picks shelf first at Woozles Children's Bookstore. It's the fastest read of a shop's personality. If the picks excite you, the rest of the store will too.
- Check the sale shelf rhythm. Shops clear shelves on cycles. Ask when the next cull happens — that's when the bargains land.
- Don't judge by the window display. The front table is marketing. The back shelves are the shop's real taste. Walk the whole floor.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Halifax — 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 Halifax can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 18, 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 18 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.
Bookstore listings for Halifax: 18 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.