Austin Texas Book Trail 2025

April 12 + 13, 2025 ✽ EXPLORE THE MAP

Thanks for joining us on the 2025 Book Trail!

The Austin Texas Book Trail is an annual bookstore crawl dedicated to celebrating the literary spirit and supporting local independent bookshops in the greater Austin area. Each year, we gather bookstores in Austin and surrounding areas for a one-weekend “Book Trail,” with participating stores offering exclusive discounts, prizes, and/or activations to serve and build community. Our mission is to uplift newer bookstores, cherish the old, and energize the local literary community — readers, booksellers, and bookstore owners alike.

The 2025 Book Trail featured 29 local, independent bookstores across Austin and neighboring areas:

  • Alienated Majesty Books

  • Austin Books & Comics

  • Best Little Wine & Books

  • Birdhouse Books and Gifts

  • Black Pearl Books

  • BookPeople

  • BookWoman

  • Colossus Books

  • Curio Mrvosa Books and More

  • Dragon's Lair Comics & Fantasy Austin

  • First Light Books

  • Flutter Romance Bookstore

  • Haunt Happy Books

  • Keep Looking

    (feat. Austin Used Book Collective on 4/12 only)

  • Lark and Owl Booksellers

  • Lioness Books

  • Livra Books

  • Magnolia Bookery and Gifts

  • Monkeywrench Books

  • Paper Bark Birch

  • Recycled Reads, Austin Public Library's Used Bookstore

  • Resistencia Bookstore

  • Reverie Books

  • Sunday Bookshop

  • The Book Burrow

  • The Little Gay Shop

  • Time Being Books

  • Tribe Comics and Games

  • Vintage Bookstore & Wine Bar

READ THE 2025 RECAP →

Check out the official 2025 poster, designed by local printmaker Strawberry Milkweed:

*Special thanks to Ashley Robin Franklin, our 2024 poster artist, for help with the bookstore lettering and poster printing!

“For this poster, we wanted to feature some fun and whimsical Austin animals on the move.

The Austin Texas Book Trail is called a bookstore crawl, but crawling’s not the only way to participate — the critters on this poster are swimming, flying, slithering and bounding between our featured local shops.”
— Strawberry Milkweed

Strawberry Milkweed Prints is an Austin-based printmaking shop. She specializes in linocut block prints and carves each stamp herself out of rubber. She’s inspired by creatures both real and mythological, and her style is influenced by folk art, especially medieval woodcuts.

Returning April 4 & 5, 2026.

Discover 37 locally-owned, independent bookshops in Austin, Texas.

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