Boulder Book Store Review

Incredible bookstore in central Boulder. Three floors with great nooks and crannies to discover. This is a place where you can lose yourself for hours.

Great selection, helpful staff, and a beautiful building.
Make sure you visit the entire shop, both up and down stairs. If you have kids, that section is rather large and can keep you busy. Good selection of magnets, chocolate, and stuffed animals as well.

First off, this place is small but plenty of room to walk around and browse. The small space is more than made up for with three floors of books of all types. A truly remarkable collection of books of a great variety that will keep you constantly interested and looking at everything, including the used and bargain book selections. Do yourself a favor and cut out a broad swath of time to look through this place, it is well worth it!
While no place can truly compete with Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver, this place is a resounding and very close second place! I highly recommend both places

Make sure to look at the books on all three leavils. This amazing store has more that you would think.

This place is amazing, 3 floors of books, a girl could get lost in there for days and never come out. Friendly staff, great selection!

If you love book stores, this one is top notch! Three floors to browse with seemingly endless nooks to explore.

Cool spot, place was really crowded. I was visiting Colorado and stopped here to get a crossword puzzle book for the plane home. I thought it would be cheaper than the airport, boy was I wrong. Turns out the airport was less.

Classic independent bookstore, very browseable and passionately staffed.

BBS is a wonderful little bookstore with a huge amount of character and selection.

It's a big old bookstore with an antique feel. I docked them a star though because they asked me to stop telling children that they could reach Diagon Alley by running head first into the book shelf at the back of the second floor.

Massive book store on Pearl Street that has something for everyone. Multiple floors of books on every topic. Lots of fun to check out if you're shopping nearby.

A great place to hear authors discuss their work. A true Boulder landmark.

The Boulder bookstore website only (that I could find in several different locations) listed a very old telephone number that really is a personal number of a person not affiliated with Boulder Bookstore.
Please update your website that google sends one to. Thank you ,

A wonderful local independent bookstore on the mall! Stop in for an enjoyable afternoon

Wow, they have everything. And the staff are super!

Spend an evening, or two or three soaking up the warm and eclectic atmosphere of this literary zone. You will find books here that you can't track down anywhere else, and there are lots of great nooks and crannies to peruse them. The staff goes out of their way to help you, if you can't find what you are looking for. Thank you Kevin McCarthy for helping me find the book I had in mind, even though I didn't know the author or exact title! And don't miss the unique speakers and authors who come here to share their latest projects.

Extensive collection of books. Friendly staff. Great atmosphere.

This place has awesome events and a great selection of books and children's books/toys.

Great selection of books and a really helpful staff. Right now (During COVID) the store is open at a lower capacity. I was worried I'd feel rushed to leave given the lower capacity but didn't and was able to find everything I came in for and more!

Awesome friendly local book store. Prices are a bit more than Amazon but worth keeping the community alive.

This place needs a map & compass to navigate, but not Jack Sparrow's compass as I'll never be able to leave. They have rooms upon rooms of awesome books, anything from used discount section near front entrance to about any section of books you wish to lose yourself in. This store seems more like a library with requirement to purchase instead of just checking them out.

A Boulder landmark, and an excellent mostly new book shop. My favorites are the reviews by local middle schoolers.

Really cool and unique store. It's a great space. Be sure to check out their historic ballroom. It's stunning and even more so when wall to wall with books.

Wow... what an overwhelming amount of books. Three floors filled with multiple rooms, shelves, and tables of books. Truly a remarkably large space that you don't expect from the outside looking in. The classic book store had classical music softly humming in the background and is located in the middle of the chic tourist hub, Pearl St. The books are pricy, but the store offers a large sale section per floor. I found two books from the sale section that I liked along with a book light. I am very disapointed with the book light. It glitches a lotttt. Overall, the place is a relaxing environment that I will probably go back to.

Three entire floors of everything you could ever want to read. Book selections include almost every conceivable topic, ranging from astrophysics to cook books. Great atmosphere, and friendly staff. Being in an outside mall, there is no parking, but the walk to here is worth it.

A gem to visit and explore. Great layout and an enticing selection. A calm respite from the world.

I love this place every time I come here a book speaks to me

I really liked this store. Much more expansive than you would imagine and a lot of sections you wouldn't otherwise see

Fascinating Library! Way bigger than it appears from the outside with multiple floors and separate rooms for all kinds of categories.

I love spending in here and just looking at all the books! I would live here if I could!

The Last of The Mohicans. A REAL BOOKSTORE. A RARE GEM. Tons of selections, from magazines to books to gifts. Housed in a wonderful building on Pearl Street, this bookstore is in the heart of it all, a multi level book playground, easy to spend hours in. Support it or it will vanish!

On the pearl street mall, go to the top floor to see the pretty ceiling.

Local bookstore is a Boulder institution. Recommendations by staff are a great help in selecting a title from the thousands of options. Be sure to check out the extensive children's section.

Fun little book store. Feels like a maze that you explore inside.

Great store, multiple levels, chock-full of good finds. I was also able to take a seat on the second floor and read for several hours undisturbed.

This place is huge and really reasonably priced! I'm a huge bargain shopper and there were tons of books on sale, as well as all the best sellers clearly marked.

I forget about it until I remember it again, and it's wonderful every time.

Love the Boulder Book Store. Was surprised to find that you can buy CBD oils there!

If you like books, prepare to be overwhelmed. 3 while floors

I couldn't believe how huge this place was, and even though we were there on a busy Sunday, once you got past the initial register area the place was actually quite relaxing with plenty of space to browse. Although we didn't buy anything (not much of book readers), we could have probably left with a bag of books just because we found some interesting stuff. I'd definitely come back here.

Best bookstore in Boulder. I can get lost upstairs, any day of the week. And, the staff are always friendly.

Great local bookstore with 3 floors to explore! They are a bit more expensive than you might find elsewhere, but it feels worth slight extra cost to support this Boulder fixture. The also have a really good used and sale section with lower prices books. I like getting holiday and birthday gifts here for their gift wrap station in the basement.

Excellent atmosphere, selection, and layout. Friendly and knowledgeable staff.

Great sell back program. They put the money on a gift card (or cash) so it's a great deal.

Three awesome stories of new and used books. Lots of staff recommendations and a wall of newly acquired used books. Great store.

My favorite book store in Colorado. So cozy and so many options. Knowledgeable staff, great recommendations. Could (and do) get lost here for hours

Very clean and organized. Also in a great location.

Great new and used books. Awesome children's section. 3 stories.

2 different people went out of their way to help me find appropriate children's books. One was a librarian who specializes in children's books! Very knowledgeable. Liked the wrapping station downstairs where you can wrap your own packages with papers and ribbons to choose from.

I saw this store on Pearl and decided to go in to check it out. On my way out of exiting the store(without purchasing anything ) the alarm goes off as I'm walking out and I turn around, the woman at the desk asks to check my bag although I most certainly didn't steal anything. I was very offended didn't feel like that was professional or appropriate. Instead of accusing an innocent person shoplifting maybe you should get store surveillance or more people on the floor to monitor costumers. I feel victimized and I feel like that was a very unprofessional.

A three story bookstore with prices that rival online retailers! I'm in heaven.

This location is very extensive, and the deals are excellent.

Great book clubs, best selection of chocolates, excellent talks

favorite place in boulder! great atmosphere, awesome selection of new and used books.

Fun bookstore with both new and used books. Very helpful staff and surprisingly well rounded selection of books.

Wonderful book store! The BEST local source of every type of book a person would want to read!

Great book store. Quite, Cozy, and a great selection of reading material. Don't know what to get? Then the have many great selections.