Bookstores in Santa Fe
If you judge a town by its bookshops, Santa Fe, New Mexico gives you 18 to judge by. That's 18 bookshops mapped around Santa Fe, each with its own shelves and specialties. The used sections are where the real bargains hide. Staff picks shelves are the fastest way to read a shop's personality.
This guide covers every bookstore we could verify in and around Santa Fe (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Garcia Street Books and Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse, plus SFCC Bookstore & Copy Center. If a bookshop's missing from Santa Fe's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Santa Fe bookstore lineup
18 mapped within about 40 km:
Garcia Street Books
Bookstore
Garcia Street Books — Bookstore, found on 376 Garcia Street in Santa Fe. Also worth knowing about Garcia Street Books: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:00-18:00; Su 09:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
376 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, 87501
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:00-18:00; Su 09:00-17:00
Phone: +1-505-986-0151
Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse
Bookstore
Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse — Bookstore, found on 202 Galisteo Street in Santa Fe. Also worth knowing about Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 09:00-17:00; it has a website with more detail.
202 Galisteo Street, Santa Fe, 87501
Hours: Mo-Su 09:00-17:00
SFCC Bookstore & Copy Center
BookstoreRun by Barnes & Noble
Run by Barnes & Noble, SFCC Bookstore & Copy Center is Bookstore.
Gunstock Hill Books
Bookstore
Gunstock Hill Books — Bookstore, found on 239 Johnson Street in Santa Fe. Also worth knowing about Gunstock Hill Books: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 11:00-17:30 || "by appointment"; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
239 Johnson Street, Santa Fe, 87501
Hours: Mo-Sa 11:00-17:30 || "by appointment"
Phone: +1-505-983-0088
op cit books Santa Fe
Bookstore
op cit books Santa Fe — Bookstore, found on 157 Paseo de Peralta in Santa Fe. Also worth knowing about op cit books Santa Fe: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
157 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, 87501
Phone: +1-505-428-0321
Big Adventure Comics
Bookstore
Big Adventure Comics is Bookstore on 328 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe.
328 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, 87501
The Ark
Bookstore
The Ark is Bookstore on 133 Romero Street. The Ark also notes on the map: 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.
133 Romero Street
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-18:00
Phone: +1-505-988-3709
St. John's Bookstore
Bookstore
St. John's Bookstore is Bookstore on Camino Cruz Blanca, Santa Fe.
Camino Cruz Blanca, Santa Fe
Palace Avenue Books
Bookstore
Palace Avenue Books is Bookstore.
Barnes & Noble
Bookstore
Barnes & Noble — Bookstore, found on 4250 Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe. Also worth knowing about Barnes & Noble: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-20:00; Su 11:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
4250 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, 87507
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-20:00; Su 11:00-19:00
Phone: +1 505 531 9751
Beastly Books
Bookstore
Beastly Books is Bookstore on 418 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe. Beastly Books also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as We, Th 12:00-19:00; Fr, Sa 11:00-19:00; Su 12:00-16:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
418 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, 87501
Hours: We, Th 12:00-19:00; Fr, Sa 11:00-19:00; Su 12:00-16:00
Phone: +1 505 395 2628
Books of Interest
BookstoreRun by Leo and Elizabeth
Books of Interest is Bookstore run by Leo and Elizabeth on 1333 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe.
1333 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe
2nd & Charles
Bookstore
2nd & Charles — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about 2nd & Charles: it has a website with more detail.
Alla
Bookstore
Alla — Bookstore on 102 West San Francisco Street.
102 West San Francisco Street
Big Star
Bookstore
Big Star — Bookstore, found on 329 Garfield Street in Santa Fe.
329 Garfield Street, Santa Fe
Book Mountain
Bookstore
Book Mountain — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Book Mountain: the map lists its hours as Tu-Fr 11:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-18:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Santa Fe
Hours: Tu-Fr 11:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-18:00
Phone: +1-505-471-2625
photo-eye Gallery
BookstoreRun by Blake Andrews;Brian Arnold;Kim Beil;Odette England;Christopher J. Johnson;Anne Kelly;Owen Kobasz;George Slade;Zach Stieneker;Shannon Taggart;Cheryl Van Hooven;Kyler Zeleny;Brad Zellar
Run by Blake Andrews;Brian Arnold;Kim Beil;Odette England;Christopher J. Johnson;Anne Kelly;Owen Kobasz;George Slade;Zach Stieneker;Shannon Taggart;Cheryl Van Hooven;Kyler Zeleny;Brad Zellar, photo-eye Gallery is Bookstore, found on 541 South Guadalupe Street in Santa Fe. Also worth knowing about photo-eye Gallery: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 10:00-17:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
541 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, 87501
Hours: Tu-Sa 10:00-17:30
Phone: +1-505-988-5152
Samizdat
Bookstore
Samizdat — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Samizdat: it has a website with more detail.
What the map tells us about bookstores in Santa Fe
8 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.
10 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.
The Santa Fe bookstore crawl
Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Garcia Street Books on 376 Garcia Street, Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse on 202 Galisteo Street, SFCC Bookstore & Copy Center, Gunstock Hill Books on 239 Johnson Street, op cit books Santa Fe on 157 Paseo de Peralta, Big Adventure Comics on 328 South Guadalupe Street, The Ark on 133 Romero Street, and St. John's Bookstore on Camino Cruz Blanca. That's 18 stops on the Santa Fe bookstore crawl. 10 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Santa Fe
A few things worth knowing before you work through Santa Fe's bookstores:
- Read the first page in the shop at Garcia Street Books. The first-page test never lies. If it doesn't grab you standing there, it won't grab you at home.
- Ask about the book club discount at Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse. Many shops discount book-club orders. If your club buys local, everyone wins.
- Ask about ordering. Independent shops will order anything in print, often in a day or two. No need to default to the big online retailer.
- Browse by serendipity, buy by list. Keep a want-list on your phone for the hunt, but let the shelves surprise you too. The best finds are never the planned ones.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Santa Fe — 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 Santa Fe can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 18 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 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 Santa Fe: 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.