Amatoria Fine Art Books

Amatoria Fine Art Books is the Sacramento region’s only bookstore specializing in the arts. We are a woman-artist-owned brick & mortar in the heart of Midtown, with over 10,000 high-quality fine art books, prints, ephemera, and original art. curated to ignite your imagination.

Sales Table: A1, Inner Courtyard

Avid Reader Davis

Since 1987 in Davis, California, The Avid Reader has been slinging books around the greater Yolo area for more than 30 years. Long walks on the beach and glasses of sparkling wine at midday are lovely, but we prefer curling up in the corner of a couch with a few books, some tea, and maybe a warm dog at our feet.

Sales Table: Outer Lobby

Avid Reader Sacramento

The Avid Reader on Broadway has promoted independent thinking through reading for 38 years. Our literature section has a broad selection of classic and new titles, and we have genre sections for mystery/thriller and sci-fi/fantasy books. We have a variety of carefully curated nonfiction sections, including history, politics, travel, biography, and the sciences. Our large section of new and bestselling hardcover books covers a wide range of fiction and nonfiction subjects. We’re proud of our huge children’s and young readers sections, including graphic novels, educational materials, activity kits, and traditional toys. Our magazine selection is the largest in Sacramento and many customers visit us daily for our selection of major newspapers. We also have the largest selection of jigsaw puzzles and single and boxed greeting cards, as well as a variety of games and reading accessories.

Sales Table: A5, Inner Courtyard

Bloodstone Books

Bloodstone Books is an independently-owned bookstore based in Sacramento, California.

We specialize in speculative fiction – from cosmic horror to epic fantasy to weird lit and everything in-between. We want to help you find your next favorite story.

Sales Table: A4, Inner Courtyard

Capital Books

Capital Books owners Ross and Heidi Rojek started a book review business in 2008, when most of the arts sections in local newspapers were either scaling back or closing altogether. We expanded our book business over the last 15 years, rather than shrink. It is our love of — first and foremost — the Sacramento community, as well as books and the acknowledgment no new bookstore in downtown that called to us.

Since opening Capital Books just before a global pandemic, political unrest, and riots from 2019 to 2021, we have become a beacon in a downtown that has been shrinking instead of growing. We didn’t close our doors during the pandemic, instead offering curbside pickup and book delivery (still in place today) to a community sheltering in place. Since 2021, we doubled down by expanding onto two more floors of our building and hosted several successful author events — from local authors at our bookstore to best-selling authors who commanded a larger audience at The Crest Theater or larger nearby venues, such as the Crocker Museum. We believe that, together, we rise, and employ that mindset with partnering with businesses around us to bring our community literary events that rival those found in the Bay Area.

Capital Books occupies the main floor of the building, Another Universe, our Sci Fi, Fantasy, Horror bookstore is in the basement, along with Toys, board and card games, and role-playing games. Our second floor is now Knotty Novels, a dedicated space for all forms of romance books.

As we say, Capital Books is three floors and a million stories.

Sales Table: A3, Inner Courtyard

Crawford’s Books

Crawford’s Books, an independent, used bookstore nestled in the Hollywood Park neighborhood of Sacramento, has been a community space since 1983. Original owners Jim and Joyce Crawford wanted their bookstore to house all book genres but with an emphasis on mysteries, westerns, romance, and military history. When current owners, Sue and Greg Richards assumed the helm in 2018, their vision was to transform Crawford’s Books into a community hub. As long-time customers of the store, they knew there was something special that kept drawing them back to Crawford’s Books, and were excited to continue building the magic.

Sales Table: A6, Inner Courtyard

A Seat at the Table

A Seat at the Table is Sacramento’s only bookstore, cafe, and third space just off 99 in Elk Grove.

Sales Table: A2, Inner Courtyard

Underground Books

Underground Books opened in the summer of 2003 under the direction of St. HOPE (Nonprofit 501c3) and is part of the 40 Acres Cultural Center in Oak Park.

Sales Table: Kid’s Zone (Bruno Room)