Bookstores in San Antonio
Bookstores reward the browsers. San Antonio, Texas has 15 mapped right now. That's 15 bookshops mapped around San Antonio, each with its own shelves and specialties. The used sections are where the real bargains hide.
This guide covers every bookstore we could verify in and around San Antonio (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include University Bookstore and L&M Bookstore, plus SAC Bookstore. If a bookshop's missing from San Antonio's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The San Antonio bookstore lineup
15 in San Antonio, plus 9 more around San Antonio below:
University Bookstore
Bookstore2.3 km from San Antonio
University Bookstore is Bookstore.
L&M Bookstore
Bookstore2.4 km from San Antonio
L&M Bookstore — Bookstore.
SAC Bookstore
Bookstore2.5 km from San Antonio
SAC Bookstore is Bookstore.
The Twig Bookshop
Bookstore2.6 km from San Antonio
The Twig Bookshop is Bookstore.
Antiquarian Book Mart
Bookstore4.2 km from San Antonio
Antiquarian Book Mart — Bookstore, found on 3127 Broadway in San Antonio.
3127 Broadway, San Antonio, 78209
Half Price Books
Bookstore4.2 km from San AntonioRun by Half Price Books (#0010)
Run by Half Price Books (#0010), Half Price Books is Bookstore, found on 3207 Broadway in San Antonio. Also worth knowing about Half Price Books: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
3207 Broadway, San Antonio, 78209
Phone: +1 210-822-4597
Half Price Books
Bookstore4.2 km from San AntonioRun by Half Price Books (store #0010)
Run by Half Price Books (store #0010), Half Price Books is Bookstore, found on 3207 Broadway in San Antonio. Also worth knowing about Half Price Books: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
3207 Broadway, San Antonio, 78209
Phone: +1 210-822-4597
Cheever Books
Bookstore4.7 km from San Antonio
Cheever Books is Bookstore on 3613 Broadway, San Antonio.
3613 Broadway, San Antonio, 78209
Read Free
Bookstore4.8 km from San Antonio
Read Free is Bookstore on 902 Clark Avenue, San Antonio.
902 Clark Avenue, San Antonio, 78210
Nowhere Books
Bookstore6.4 km from San Antonio
Nowhere Books — Bookstore, found on 5162 Broadway in San Antonio.
5162 Broadway, San Antonio, 78209
Collector's Authority
Bookstore8.3 km from San Antonio
Collector's Authority is Bookstore.
Heroes & Fantasies
Bookstore8.8 km from San Antonio
Heroes & Fantasies — Bookstore, found on 2623 Southeast Military Dr in San Antonio.
2623 Southeast Military Dr, San Antonio, 78223
Half Price Books
Bookstore16.0 km from San Antonio
Half Price Books — Bookstore, found on 11255 Huebner Oaks in San Antonio. Also worth knowing about Half Price Books: it has a website with more detail.
11255 Huebner Oaks, San Antonio, 78230
Barnes & Noble
Bookstore20.1 km from San Antonio
Barnes & Noble — Bookstore, found on 18030 San Pedro Avenue in San Antonio.
18030 San Pedro Avenue, San Antonio, 78232
Barnes & Noble
Bookstore22.1 km from San Antonio
Barnes & Noble — Bookstore, found on 5427 West Loop 1604 North in San Antonio. Also worth knowing about Barnes & Noble: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-21:00; Su 11:00-19:00.
5427 West Loop 1604 North, San Antonio, 78253
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-21:00; Su 11:00-19:00
What the map tells us about bookstores in San Antonio
1 of the 15 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
There's a cluster: 2 of them sit on 3207 Broadway, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.
The San Antonio bookstore crawl
The efficient San Antonio bookstore crawl strings these together: University Bookstore, L&M Bookstore, SAC Bookstore, The Twig Bookshop, Antiquarian Book Mart on 3127 Broadway, Half Price Books on 3207 Broadway, Half Price Books on 3207 Broadway, and Cheever Books on 3613 Broadway — 15 stops, one logical order. 7 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for San Antonio
A few things worth knowing before you work through San Antonio's bookstores:
- Poetry lives in bookshops at University Bookstore. Poetry barely exists online as a browsing experience. The poetry shelf in a real shop is a different world.
- Look for local history at L&M Bookstore. The local-interest shelf tells you what a town thinks of itself. Great for visitors, better for new residents.
- Come back seasonally. Stock turns over with the publishing seasons. The shop you browsed in spring is a different shop by autumn.
- Check for a café corner. A bookshop with coffee is a trap in the best way. Plan accordingly; you won't be leaving soon.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around San Antonio — 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 San Antonio can take a while to appear. The 15 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 15 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 San Antonio
9 more within about 40 km of San Antonio, nearest first:
There And Back Again books
Bookstore10.5 km from San Antonio
There And Back Again books is Bookstore on 8418 Broadway.
8418 Broadway, 78209
Half Price Books
Bookstore11.3 km from San Antonio
Half Price Books — Bookstore.
Dragon's Lair Comics & Fantasy
Bookstore12.1 km from San Antonio
Dragon's Lair Comics & Fantasy — Bookstore on #129 Fredericksburg Road. Also worth knowing about Dragon's Lair Comics & Fantasy: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-22:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
#129 Fredericksburg Road, 78229
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-22:00
Phone: +1-210-615-1229
Barnes & Noble
Bookstore12.9 km from San Antonio
Barnes & Noble — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Barnes & Noble: the map lists its hours as Mo-Th 10:00-20:00; Fr,Sa 10:00-21:00; Su 11:00-19:00.
Hours: Mo-Th 10:00-20:00; Fr,Sa 10:00-21:00; Su 11:00-19:00
Pages for Ages
Bookstore20.0 km from San Antonio
Pages for Ages — Bookstore on 10350 Bandera Road. Also worth knowing about Pages for Ages: the map lists its hours as Tu-Fr 12:00-19:00; Sa 10:00-19:00; Su 12:00-18:00; it has a website with more detail.
10350 Bandera Road
Hours: Tu-Fr 12:00-19:00; Sa 10:00-19:00; Su 12:00-18:00
Rowdy Campus Store
Bookstore21.6 km from San Antonio
Rowdy Campus Store is Bookstore.
Barnes & Noble
Bookstore22.0 km from San Antonio
Barnes & Noble — Bookstore.
Half Price Books
Bookstore22.0 km from San Antonio
Half Price Books — Bookstore.
Half Price Books
Bookstore24.2 km from San Antonio
Half Price Books — Bookstore.
Bookstore listings for San Antonio: 15 in San Antonio and 9 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.