Bookstores in Uxbridge

If you judge a town by its bookshops, Uxbridge, Ontario gives you 2 to judge by. That's 2 bookshops mapped around Uxbridge, 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 Uxbridge (within about 15 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Blue Heron Books and Cole's. If a bookshop's missing from Uxbridge's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Uxbridge bookstore lineup

2 in Uxbridge:

What the map tells us about bookstores in Uxbridge

None of the 2 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Bookshops keep fairly standard hours, so a daytime visit is a safe bet.

The Uxbridge bookstore crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Blue Heron Books and Cole's. That's 2 stops on the Uxbridge bookstore crawl.

Bookstore tips for Uxbridge

Browsing in Uxbridge? A little strategy helps:

• Check the events board at Blue Heron Books. Book clubs, writing groups, story times — bookshops are community centres that happen to sell books.
• Ask for the out-of-print hunters at Cole's. Some used shops will hunt down out-of-print titles for you. It takes patience, but the find is worth it.
• Check the cookbook section. Cookbooks are the most browsed and least bought section, which means the used shelf is full of barely-touched gems.
• Read the first page in the shop. The first-page test never lies. If it doesn't grab you standing there, it won't grab you at home.

Good to know

We searched about 15 km around Uxbridge — 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 Uxbridge can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 2 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 2 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.