Bookstores in Boston: list of 23 free CSV

How many bookstores are in Boston?

OpenStreetMap lists 23 named bookstores inside the Boston city boundary (246 km²), extract of 11 Nov 2026. 43% of the records list a website and 22% a phone number; 13 named bookstores have no website on the public record.

Examples on the list: Beacon Hill Books & Cafe, Berklee Books + Music, Bodega.

Bookstores in Boston at a glance: most are in East Boston (5), Back Bay (4), Chinatown (2); records were last edited between Jul 2013 and Oct 2026; Beacon Hill Books & Cafe and Bromer Booksellers list a business phone.

Edited on the map in the 90 days before the extract: 2 records, including Papercuts Bookshop, Emerson College Bookstore.

23named bookstores
43%list a website
13no website listed
14neighbourhoods
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Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, extract of 11 Nov 2026. The CSV is under the same licence.

All 23 bookstores, A to Z

on the map recordmissing from the record

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Bookstores in Boston, OpenStreetMap extract of 11 Nov 2026.
Business Street and area Website Phone Hours
Beacon Hill Books & Cafe 71 Charles Street, Beacon Hill bhbooks.com +1-617-945-4713
Berklee Books + Music 1088;1094;1090 Boylston Street, Fenway-Kenmore berklee.bncollege.com
Bodega 6 Clearway Street, Back Bay
BookLink East Boston, no street on record
Brattle Book Shop Chinatown, no street on record
Bromer Booksellersnot edited since 2020 607 Boylston Street, Back Bay bromer.com +1-617-247-2818
Christian Science Reading Room 184 Massachusetts Avenue, Back Bay
Commonwealth Books 9 Spring Lane, Downtown commonwealthbooks.blackwidowpress.com
Emerson College Bookstore 114 Boylston Street, Chinatown
Harvard Medical Center Coopnot edited since 2013 Longwood, no street on record
Hudson News East Boston, no street on record
Hudsy Booksellers East Boston, no street on record
Ink by Hudson East Boston, no street on record
Just Book-ish 1463 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester justbook-ish.com +1 617-819-9902
Lucy Parsons Center 358 Centre Street, Mission Hill lucyparsonscenter.org
More Than Wordsnot edited since 2020 242 East Berkeley Street, Bay Village mtwyouth.org +1-781-788-0035
Museum of Fine Arts Bookstore & Shop Landsdown, no street on record
NewsLink East Boston, no street on record
Northeastern University Bookstorenot edited since 2019 Roxbury, no street on record
Papercuts Bookshop 60 South Street, Jamaica Plain papercutsjp.com +1-617-522-3404
Posman Books 127 Newbury Street, Back Bay posmanbooks.com
Roxbury Community College Bookstorenot edited since 2020 Mission Hill, no street on record
Rozzie Bound Co-op Roslindale, no street on record rozziebound.com

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Bookstores in Boston with no website listed

8 of 22 named non-chain bookstores; 5 below, the rest in the filter or the CSV.

  • Bodega6 Clearway Street, Back Bay
  • BookLinkEast Boston
  • Brattle Book ShopChinatown
  • Hudson NewsEast Boston
  • Museum of Fine Arts Bookstore & ShopLandsdown

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Where they are

Map of the 23 bookstores inside the Boston boundary; most sit around East Boston, Back Bay, Chinatown.
website listedno website, or social page only

By neighbourhood

Black: website listed.

2 more neighbourhoods in the filter above.

By ZIP code

  • 021163
  • 022153
  • 021302

Chains and non-chain businesses

4% of the records are branches of a chain or brand; 22 are not.

What the records hold

23 map records.
FieldRecordsShare
Street address1252%
Website (own site)1043%
Phone on file522%
Email on file (not shown)417%
Opening hours1252%
Chain or brand branch14%
Edited since January 20241043%

Half the records were last edited in Oct 2023 or later.

Why other sites show a different number

  • Coverage. 23 mapped; Google Maps holds more.
  • Boundary. 246 km² (map); metro searches count more.
  • Names. 1 branches each count once.

Get the complete list with emails, phones and ratings

Businesses to contact, not customer enquiries ("leads" for your own business are a different product).

Suggested source for this list

Google Maps Business Lead & Email Finder

It searches Google Maps for the same category and city and can add emails from each business website.

  • Emails
  • Phone numbers
  • Websites
  • Star ratings
  • Review counts
  • Social profiles
  • no opening hours

One run: about $0.42 to $0.64 for 23 to 240 rows ($0.99 per 1,000 + $0.40 start fee (4 GB run)), plus platform usage ($0.80/hour).

Free plan prices; it includes $5 a month (Apify pricing).

How to run it, step by step

  1. Open Google Maps Business Lead & Email Finder on the Apify Store and sign in or create a free Apify account.
  2. Paste these 2 searches into Search phrases, one per line; the neighbourhood searches catch businesses a citywide search misses.
    1. bookstores in Boston, MA
    2. bookstores in East Boston, Boston, MA
  3. Set Country: United States; US state: Massachusetts.
  4. Set Maximum leads to 300.
  5. Start it and download the results as CSV or Excel.

Open on the Apify Store What this source returns

Or search by ZIP code (3 searches)
  1. bookstores in 02116, Boston, MA
  2. bookstores in 02215, Boston, MA
  3. bookstores in 02130, Boston, MA

Other ways to build or enrich it

Prices on the Free plan: per 1,000 results plus a start fee per GB of run memory, plus Apify platform usage.
SourceWhat it addsPrice
Google Maps Business Lead Finder with Email & Social Links a second Google Maps route with a different set of columns $0.99 per 1,000 + $0.10/GB start
Yelp Business Search & Review Scraper Yelp listings with ratings and review counts $0.99 per 1,000 + $0.10/GB start
Website Contact Page Email & Phone Crawler reads the websites in the free CSV and returns the emails and phone numbers published there $0.99 per 1,000 + $0.10/GB start
Facebook Business Page Finder by Keyword & City finds the Facebook pages of businesses that have no website $0.99 per 1,000 + $0.10/GB start

Bookstores in other cities

CityNamedWebsite listed
Bookstores in New York City15768%
Bookstores in Chicago6854%
Bookstores in San Francisco6454%
Bookstores in Los Angeles6241%
Bookstores in Seattle5879%
Bookstores in Portland4454%
Bookstores in Washington, DC3866%
Bookstores in San Diego3542%
Bookstores in Denver3053%
Bookstores in Philadelphia3061%

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Questions

How many bookstores are there in Boston?

At least 23: that is how many OpenStreetMap has inside the Boston city boundary, 23 with a name (extract of 11 Nov 2026). 1 are chain branches. Google Maps usually lists more, because more owners add themselves there.

Which part of Boston has the most bookstores?

East Boston (5), then Back Bay (4) and Chinatown (2). 14 neighbourhoods have at least one.

How many bookstores in Boston have no website?

13 of the 23 named bookstores have no website on their map record; 8 of them are not chain branches.

How do I get phone numbers and emails for bookstores in Boston?

Run Google Maps Business Lead & Email Finder with the search "bookstores in Boston, MA" plus 1 neighbourhood searches such as "bookstores in East Boston, Boston, MA". One run costs about $0.42 to $0.64 ($0.40 start fee (4 GB run) included), plus platform usage, for 23 to 240 rows.

Sources

Using the list: credit OpenStreetMap contributors and keep changed copies under the ODbL; follow the outreach rules where you send. Licence and limits.

Map extract 11 Nov 2026Next refresh after 6 Dec 2026Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL