Nothing says summer time greater than a visit to the seaside. And for many individuals, that features the right summer time learn.
When you’re searching for a page-turner, right here’s some excellent news: After a decade of downsizing, partly resulting from Amazon’s rise mixed with modifications in client conduct, bookstores are again—with Barnes & Noble main the renaissance with a significant enlargement. The New York Metropolis-based firm is on monitor to open greater than 60 new bookstores in 2025 alone, based on a spokesperson for the bookseller. The retailer at present runs roughly 600 bookstores nationwide, in addition to BN.com on-line.
Midway via the yr, Barnes & Noble instructed Quick Firm it has already opened 23 bookstores in 2025. “[We] are having fun with a interval of super development because the technique handy management of every bookstore to its native booksellers has confirmed so profitable,” an organization spokesperson mentioned. “We’re experiencing robust gross sales in present shops and have been opening many new shops consequently.”
Within the early 2000s, Barnes & Noble opened 30 shops or extra a yr, however concurrently closed about half that quantity too, based on The Wall Road Journal. By 2013, a decade later, it was on monitor to shut a few third of its brick-and-mortar retail shops, and would proceed shrinking over the following 10 years. However by 2023, client demand was again, and the bookseller began ramping up once more.
As Quick Firm beforehand reported, the resurgence is thanks largely to social media, particularly by TikTok’s #BookTok. However some credit score additionally goes to an increase in so-called third areas—locations persons are flocking to post-pandemic which are neither dwelling nor work, as People search actual connection amid an epidemic of loneliness now plaguing our nation (particularly amongst Gen Z).
As People spend extra time at dwelling and on their units, many now have fewer associates (significantly males) and fewer social shops. However many new bookstores are opening with a café or perhaps a bar to permit for extra interplay, like New York Metropolis’s Guide Membership Bar and Bibliotheque, or (my private favourite) Boston’s romance novel bookstore, Lovestruck Books.
“Bookstores are a social spot to collect and supply that third area that on-line purchasing can’t present,” Barnes & Noble instructed Quick Firm. “Our booksellers are educated and may present a devoted customer support to the in-store shopper.”
Right here’s a listing of places the place Barnes & Noble has already opened new shops, in addition to a listing of states the place will probably be opening new places in 2025.
New Barnes & Noble places opened in 2025
- Pennsylvania: 2935 Harmony Rd., York, PA 17402
- 720 W Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
- Virginia: 9840 Brook Rd., Glen Allen, VA 23059
- 1961 Chain Bridge Rd., Tysons, VA 22102
- 8139 Stonewall Retailers Sq., Gainesville, VA 20155
- Arizona: 2011 E. Camelback Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85016
- Connecticut: 775 Major St. S., Southbury, CT 06488
- 1145 Excessive Ridge Rd., Stamford, CT 06905
- Washington: 10330 59th Ave. SW, Lakewood, WA 98499
- 775 NW Gilman Blvd., Issaquah, WA 98027
- 1140 Bellevue Sq., Bellevue, WA 98004
- Ohio: 3708 W. Dublin-Granville Rd., Columbus, OH 43235
- 5501 Dressler Rd. NW, North Canton, OH 44720
- Illinois: 9 Jackson Ave., Naperville, IL 60540
- Florida: 13123 N. Dale Mabry Hwy., Tampa FL 33618
- 151 N US Freeway 1, Tequesta, FL 33469
- 4149 Tamiami Path N., Naples, FL 34103
- New York: 301 Walt Whitman Rd., Huntington Station, NY 11746
- Nebraska: 7949 Towne Heart Pkwy., Papillion, NE 68046
- Michigan: 2236 E. Beltline Ave. NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49525
- Texas: 12850 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77024
- California: 2475 Sand Creek Rd., Brentwood, CA 94513
- Colorado: 550 Marshall Rd., Superior, CO 80027
Barnes & Noble places anticipated to open within the second half of 2025
A spokesperson for Barnes & Noble instructed Quick Firm that the corporate has signed leases to open further shops within the following states:
- Pennsylvania
- New Hampshire
- Washington
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Massachusetts
- Tennessee
- New Jersey
- Kansas
- Minnesota
- Maryland
- California
- Louisiana
- Florida
- Idaho
- Michigan
- Colorado
- Ohio
- District of Columbia
