Bookstores in Kingston
Kingston, ON has 6 bookstores on the map. That's 6 bookshops mapped around Kingston, 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 Kingston (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Wayfarer Books and Novel Idea, plus Bookland. If a bookshop's missing from Kingston's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Kingston bookstore lineup
6 mapped within about 40 km:
Wayfarer Books
Bookstore
Wayfarer Books — Bookstore, found on 85 Princess Street in Kingston.
85 Princess Street, Kingston
Novel Idea
Bookstore
Novel Idea — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Novel Idea: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:30-21:00, Sa 09:30-18:00, Su 10:30-17:00.
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:30-21:00, Sa 09:30-18:00, Su 10:30-17:00
Bookland
Bookstore
Bookland — Bookstore.
Beggar's Banquet Books
BookstoreRun by Alison Dunn;Tom Stormonth
Run by Alison Dunn;Tom Stormonth, Beggar's Banquet Books is Bookstore, found on 126 King Street East in Gananoque. Also worth knowing about Beggar's Banquet Books: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
126 King Street East, Gananoque, K7G 1G2
Phone: +1-613-463-8998

Campus Bookstore
BookstoreRun by Queen's University Engineering Society Services Inc.
Run by Queen's University Engineering Society Services Inc., Campus Bookstore is Bookstore, found on 30 Fifth Field Company Lane in Kingston. Also worth knowing about Campus Bookstore: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:00-17:00; it has a website with more detail.
30 Fifth Field Company Lane, Kingston
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:00-17:00
Indigo
Bookstore
Indigo — Bookstore on 945 Gardiners Road.
945 Gardiners Road

What the map tells us about bookstores in Kingston
2 of the 6 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 Kingston bookstore crawl
Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Wayfarer Books on 85 Princess Street, Novel Idea, Bookland, Beggar's Banquet Books on 126 King Street East, Campus Bookstore on 30 Fifth Field Company Lane, and Indigo on 945 Gardiners Road. That's 6 stops on the Kingston bookstore crawl.
Bookstore tips for Kingston
A few things worth knowing before you work through Kingston's bookstores:
- Ask about ordering at Wayfarer Books. Independent shops will order anything in print, often in a day or two. No need to default to the big online retailer.
- Don't judge by the window display at Novel Idea. The front table is marketing. The back shelves are the shop's real taste. Walk the whole floor.
- Ask the booksellers. A good bookseller lives for the question 'what should I read next?' Give them three books you loved and watch them work.
- Ask about the book club discount. Many shops discount book-club orders. If your club buys local, everyone wins.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Kingston — 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 Kingston can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 6 that's closed, or a great bookstore we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.
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 6 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 Kingston: 6 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.