NYC Diverse-Owned Bookstores
AAPIA-owned Bookstores
- Eastern Bookstore (New York, NY)
- Yu and Me Books (New York, NY)
Black-owned Bookstores
- The Bronx is Reading (Bronx, NY)*
- Cafe Con Libros (Brooklyn, NY)*
- The Lit Bar (Bronx, NY)
- Revolution Books (New York, NY)
- Sister’s Uptown Bookstore (New York, NY)*
Disabled-owned Bookstores
- Bluestockings Collective (New York, NY)
Jewish-owned Bookstores
- Eichlers (Brooklyn, NY)
- Mekor Judaica (Brooklyn, NY)
Latinx-owned Bookstores
- Bronx Bound Books (Bronx, NY)
- The Bronx is Reading (Bronx, NY)*
- Cafe con Libros (Brooklyn, NY)*
- Chau Luna (Brooklyn, NY)
- The Lit Bar (Bronx, NY)
- Word Up Community Bookshop/Libreria Communitaria (Washington Heights/Inwood, NY)*
LGBTQIA+-owned Bookstores
- Bluestockings Bookstore, Cafe & Activist Center (New York, NY)
- Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (New York, NY)
Diverse Book Subscription Boxes
- BlackLIT
- Jambo Book Club
- Just Like Me Box
- Little Feminist
- marginsbox
- OurShelves
- Shift Book Box
- The Equal Opportunity Book Box
Free, Non-Pirated eBook Websites
- Baen Free Library
- Bibliomania
- Bookboon
- BookBub*
- GetFreeEbooks
- Google Books*
- Google Play Books (Free Section)
- HathiTrust Digital Library
- Hoopla*
- International Children’s Digital Library
- Internet Archive*
- Libby*
- LibriVox
- Literature.org
- ManyBooks
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- Open Library
- Open Textbook Library
- PDF Books World
- Planet eBook
- Project Gutenberg*
- Sacred Texts
- Smashwords
- Standard Ebooks
- Wikibooks
- Wikijunior
Notable Resources*
- American Library Association
- Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE
- Black Creators HQ
- Disability in Kidlit
- KidLit in Color
- National Council of Teachers of English
- PB22 Peekaboo
- The New York Public Library: Best Books of 2020
- We Need Diverse Books
*favorite resources
