Bookstores in Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV has 18 bookstores on the map. That's 18 bookshops mapped around Las Vegas, 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 Las Vegas (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Book Boutique and Evolve by Hudson, plus COSMIC COMICS!. If a bookshop's missing from Las Vegas's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Las Vegas bookstore lineup
18 mapped within about 40 km:
Book Boutique
Bookstore
Book Boutique — Bookstore on 19 West Pacific Avenue.
19 West Pacific Avenue
Evolve by Hudson
Bookstore
Evolve by Hudson — Bookstore.
COSMIC COMICS!
Bookstore
COSMIC COMICS! — Bookstore.
Canyon Echo Bookstore
Bookstore
Canyon Echo Bookstore is Bookstore.
Maximum Comics
Bookstore
Maximum Comics — Bookstore.
Bauman Rare Books
Bookstore
Bauman Rare Books — Bookstore, found on 3327 South Las Vegas Boulevard in Las Vegas. Also worth knowing about Bauman Rare Books: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
3327 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, 89109
Phone: +1 702-948-1617
Avantpop Bookstore
Bookstore
Avantpop Bookstore is Bookstore on 900 Liberace Avenue, Las Vegas. Avantpop Bookstore also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Su-Mo 12:00-16:00; We, Fr, Sa 12:00-18:00; it has a website with more detail.
900 Liberace Avenue, Las Vegas, 89109
Hours: Su-Mo 12:00-16:00; We, Fr, Sa 12:00-18:00
Psychic Eye Book Shops
Bookstore
Psychic Eye Book Shops is Bookstore.
Mad Red Books
Bookstore
Mad Red Books is Bookstore on 9480 South Eastern Avenue, Las Vegas. Mad Red Books also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
9480 South Eastern Avenue, Las Vegas, 89123
Las Vegas Books
Bookstore
Las Vegas Books — Bookstore, found on 4790 South Eastern Avenue in Las Vegas.
4790 South Eastern Avenue, Las Vegas, 89119
Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Bookstore
Barnes & Noble Booksellers — Bookstore on 8915 West Charleston Boulevard. Also worth knowing about Barnes & Noble Booksellers: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 09:00-21:00; it has a website with more detail.
8915 West Charleston Boulevard, 89117
Hours: Mo-Su 09:00-21:00
Buffy's Book Boutique
Bookstore
Buffy's Book Boutique — Bookstore on 3585 South Durango Drive. Also worth knowing about Buffy's Book Boutique: the map lists its hours as Mo-Tu 10:00-19:00; Th-Sa 10:00-20:00; Su 11:00-18:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
3585 South Durango Drive, 89147
Hours: Mo-Tu 10:00-19:00; Th-Sa 10:00-20:00; Su 11:00-18:00
Phone: +1 725-204-9621
UNLV Bookstore
Bookstore
UNLV Bookstore — Bookstore.
Barnes & Noble
Bookstore
Barnes & Noble — Bookstore, found on 2191 Purple Heart Highway in Las Vegas. Also worth knowing about Barnes & Noble: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:00-21:00; Su 10:00-20:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
2191 Purple Heart Highway, Las Vegas, 89108
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:00-21:00; Su 10:00-20:00
Phone: +1 702-631-1775
Barnes & Noble
Bookstore
Barnes & Noble — Bookstore, found on 567 North Stephanie Street in Henderson. Also worth knowing about Barnes & Noble: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
567 North Stephanie Street, Henderson, 89014
Phone: +1 702-434-1533
Copper Cat Books
Bookstore
Copper Cat Books — Bookstore, found on 1570 West Horizon Ridge Parkway in Henderson. Also worth knowing about Copper Cat Books: the map lists its hours as Mo,Su 11:00-17:00; Tu-Sa 10:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
1570 West Horizon Ridge Parkway, Henderson, 89012
Hours: Mo,Su 11:00-17:00; Tu-Sa 10:00-19:00
Phone: +1-702-567-2666
Writer's Block
Bookstore
Writer's Block is Bookstore on 519 South 6th Street, Las Vegas. Writer's Block also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-18:00; Su 11:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
519 South 6th Street, Las Vegas, 89101
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-18:00; Su 11:00-17:00
Phone: +1 702-550-6399
RentText
Bookstore
RentText — Bookstore, found on 6250 West Charleston Boulevard in Las Vegas.
6250 West Charleston Boulevard, Las Vegas, 89146
What the map tells us about bookstores in Las Vegas
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.
7 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.
The Las Vegas bookstore crawl
Making a day of it in Las Vegas? Work this order: Book Boutique on 19 West Pacific Avenue, Evolve by Hudson, COSMIC COMICS!, Canyon Echo Bookstore, Maximum Comics, Bauman Rare Books on 3327 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Avantpop Bookstore on 900 Liberace Avenue, and Psychic Eye Book Shops. That's the bookstore crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 10 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Las Vegas
A few things worth knowing before you work through Las Vegas's bookstores:
- Come back seasonally at Book Boutique. Stock turns over with the publishing seasons. The shop you browsed in spring is a different shop by autumn.
- Kids' sections are goldmines at Evolve by Hudson. Even without kids. The picture-book art alone is worth the browse, and the middle-grade shelves hold genuine classics.
- Magazines and journals matter. The little-magazine rack is where new writers appear first. Cheap, weird, and full of discoveries.
- Learn your editions. A first edition, first printing is the collectible one. Booksellers will show you how to check the copyright page.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Las Vegas — 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 Las Vegas can take a while to appear. The 18 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 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 Las Vegas: 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.