Concord Bookshop

Just visited after a trip to Walden Pond. Great selection of New England history and literature plus many wonderful books on cooking, decorating and philosophy. Also have British magazines. And staff is very friendly and helpful. Huge children’s section too. Excellent experience.

Love this local place. They will order anything they don’t have in stock and call you when it arrives. They also have a nice selection of magazines and gift books. I have been going in there for years and have never had a bad experience only good ones.
Also they make excellent recommendations for kids books.

After moving to Virginia I can say I look forward to visiting this store every time I come home. Something about this store feels like where books are meant to be found. The employees are wonderful and have always provided excellent suggestions when I feel like deviating from my usual. As far as local businesses go, this store deserves all the patronage it drums up.

Great book store! It was very best and organized with a great selection. It was easy to find things in display or on the shelves that would be interesting. My kids loved the children’s section. I only wish I had had more time there!

Very quaint and extensive bookstore! Amazing history section, which is in line with its historical location in Concord. I appreciated the staff picks throughout the store and the numerous displays including the author of the month. My only complaint is the rather distant store clerks. It was around closing time though so perhaps they were ready to close up and go home. Regardless, it is a fun stop after visiting the north bridge and other historical sites in Concord!

Classic and welcoming bookstore.

Sometimes I think I’m one of the only people left who isn’t reading books via a Kindle or iPad or listening to books through Audible. I just love holding a book in my hands and turning its pages. I also love that no flight attendant has ever told me to switch off and put away a novel (important because I ride on a lot of airplanes).
A couple weeks ago at the beginning of a trip I bought two books and promptly forgot them on my bedside table so when I spotted the Concord Bookshop I came in hoping for a literary fix.
I quite enjoyed The Elephant Vanishes by Japanese author Haruki Murakami and had freshly finished another short story of his from the New Yorker fiction issue so I was happy to find After the Quake without much searching.
During my short time in the shop people kept coming in looking for lost family members (the place is pretty cavernous) and the staff told me that the bookshop is quite the meeting place in this small, historic Massachusetts town.
I’m glad places like the Concord Bookshop still exist.

I was so excited to visit the Concord Bookshop… a real bookstore! I left extremely disappointed and empty handed.
There is a sign at the entrance requesting customers to buy items they see in the store (as opposed to finding something there and then going home and buying it on Amazon) so that they can stay in business. I would have been happy to do that had I walked in to a welcoming, clean and comfortable environment where I wanted to spend some time — but pretty much the opposite is what I experienced.
The first thing I noticed when I walked in was all of the stains on the carpet. Everywhere. It was gross. I would not have wanted to get on the floor to browse lower shelves.
The second thing… not only was I *not* greeted in any way when I entered, I instead got to listen to two ladies (an employee and a customer) discussing how victims should be glorified and lifted up while criminals/​offenders are ignored and not given their 15 minutes (which I happen to agree with, but not what I wanted to listen to while browsing books), followed by the problems for women in modern society and the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision.
I stopped in the middle of the store to check my phone for a minute and noticed I had no cell phone service. At all. And no WiFi available. I guess that’s one way to keep people from buying online while in your store.
Made to the back part of the store, where I was finally greeted by an employee. Briefly. At the same time I noticed that all of the books on the top shelves of «Drama» and «Theater» were COVERED in spider webs.
Note to owners or management: if you want people to buy in your store instead of online, maybe you should clean the carpets and dust your shelves so people will want to stay and browse awhile.

An amazing book shop. The employees are very knowledgeable, very helpful without being on top of you and seem to love the shop. These kinds of shops are now few and far between. They have a great selection of local books as well as best sellers. The children’s area is well stocked and easy for kids to browse. Please support this store.

I LOVE this store. I enjoy giving just the right book as a present and when I need to ask the staff in the children’s/YA section for advice I know the recipient is going to love their choice. I cannot imagine trying to do this at a a big store or Amazon, I’d just end up with whatever they’re pushing.
They have a great selection and always-​changing displays to inspire you, again chosen by actual readers not some publisher’s algorithm.
Of course if you know what you want and they don’t have it they’ll order it for you, chat with you about it when it comes in (if you are so inclined) and wrap it in beautiful paper if you want – so with the free shipping and wrapping it ends up being the same price as Amazon or the big box store (if the latter even carried the book) and you get to come to Concord center and browse and chat with nice people.

Nice bookstore with a very friendly, helpful staff.

The Concord Bookshop is one of the finest Indie Bookstores in the counter. The staff is friendly and helpful. Thet hold many great events and have a larhe number of books signed by authors.

Walk your kid to the back of this place and enjoy sitting down to read. They have some large stuffed animals in the back for the kid to play with. I really like this place but like any independent book shop in this age, prices are higher here than online or at a discount book seller. I would love to get coffee and come in here and read. They have a nice local section for the tourist to stop in and read as well.

This is a great independent bookstore. I went here for a book reading by Erin Morgenstern’s of her book «The Night Circus». They had good sized area set-​up for the reading, and carefully thought out red, black, and white snacks which was a fun touch.
Nice selection of books, great location in a beautiful town. Keep an eye out for their special events — it’s a nice experience to shop here!

I’d be hard pressed to find a bookstore I didn’t like. Especially when it’s not a cheap-​o discount chain that gets books free & then sells them.
This store is cute & well organized. We just did a quick walk through because if I buy any more books, my house could be defined as a book store.

Good selection, including some foreign books and some gifts. The staff can be a bit too «can I help you?» which can be helpful or it can make you feel like they want you to get in and out. Often has some pretty good authors come for signings or talks.

Expensive, but a nice enough cutesy bookstore to browse around in. You’ll find new books and some antiquated novels as well. I make it a point to stop by when I’m in town.

This is a really nice book store. There’s a great Horticultural and Gardening section. The Kid’s Section is enormous. The layout is good, and the staff is friendly. There’s some discount tables set up, and I usually find something I want on them.
The magazine section tends to be skewed to the sort of magazines you’d find in Concord. You aren’t going to find Outlaw Biker, for instance.
What’s not to like?