What are the best presents ~ especially for yourself? Books! And this year, be sure to buy from book stores

Ben McNally Books, Toronto

April 24 is Independent Book Store Day. Here's a few of the book stores in Ontario, and if you're under lockdown, they do deliver or provide curbside pickup:

ALMONTE: Mill Street Books

ARNPRIOR: Arnprior Book Shop

A Different Drummer Books, Burlington

BAYFIELD: The Village Bookshop

BOLTON: Forsters Book Garden

BRACEBRIDGE: The Owl Books

BRIGHTON: Lighthouse Books

BURLINGTON: A Different Drummer Books

COBALT: White Mountain Publishing

COBURG: Let's Talk Books

ELORA: Magic Pebble

GANANOQUE: Beggars Banquet Books

GODERICH: Fincher's

Want some ideas on what books to buy? Check out this post, and for more books and 70+ other gifts for writers, check out this post.  

GUELPH: BookShelf

HALIBURTON: Master's Bookstore

HAMILTON: The City and The City Books;  Epic Books;  Mixed Media

Indigo/Chapters has branches all over the place. 

KINCARDINE: Fincher's

KINGSTON: Novel Idea

Bookshelf, Guelph

LAKEFIELD: Happenstance Books and Yarns

LONDON: Oxford Book Shop

MISSISSAUGA: The Book Wardrobe (curbside pickup only)

NEW LISKEARD: Chat Noir

NORTH BAY: Allison The Bookman

ORANGEVILLE: BookLore

ORILLIA: Manticore Books

OTTAWA: Books on Beechwood;  Perfect Books

PARRY SOUND:Parry Sound Books

PETEROROUGH: Hunter Street Books

PORT HOPE: Furby House Books Inc.

SARNIA: The Book Keeper

Novel Idea, Kingston

STRATFORD: Fanfare Books;  Fundamentals Books & Toys;  Theatre Store

ST. CATHARINES: Someday Books

SUDBURY: Bay Used Books

THORNHILL: The Batner Bookstore

TORONTO: Another Story; Bakka Phoenix (online only): The Beguiling; Ben McNally Books; Book City; Caversham Books; A Different Booklist; Ella Minnow; Flying Books; Moonbeam Books; Novel Spot; Parentbooks; Queen Books; Sleuth of Baker Street Ltd.; Squibb's Stationers; Type Books

UXBRIDGE: Blue Heron Books

WATERLOO: Words Worth Books

WINDSOR: Biblioasis

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