Doylestown Bookshop

Great bookstore! About 5,000 sq ft of books! Large selection of new books, children’s, and a small selection of bargain books! Fabulous events as well, with well known authors!

This is such a quaint and adorable bookstore. The staff is friendly and the selection is pretty good considering the size of the store. I have been able to find harder to find hardcover books here that I can’t find at bigger chains such as B&N.

We’ve been going to this bookstore for more than 15 years. Have never had any big issues – other than the normal bucks county retail experience – not helpful, not friendly, not knowledgable. I spend my money here and not the big box stores (or Amazon) for a reason, being a business owner I believe it’s important to support small business owners. I spoke to a manager recently about an issue and was surprised by their lack of caring and professionalism. Next time, I’ll order from Amazon.

This is always a place I stop by when visiting my parents. Growing up in Dtown and going to a CB school, it was easy to get my summer reading books each year – they were always stacked right in the main area, ready to be ransacked by teens and tweens of the like. I was even here at Midnight Madness, awaiting with most of my family for the last Harry Potter book to come out so we could buy our copy. I’ve seen this place changed around over the years, but I do think that it has been all for the better. Sure, they will not have all the books that a B&N has (but do B&Ns even have everything you want? No.), but I would rather support a local bookstore than the larger chains, without a doubt.
Even if you were unable to find the book that you were looking for, take the time and walk around. Check out the staff picks, look in the poetry section, the fiction section, or what have you. I still sleep in an Atlas Shrugged t-​shirt once bought there many moons ago…

Exactly what you would hope for in a small town bookstore. Pleasant, knowledgable staff in a friendly, comfortable atmosphere. The only issue I have is that due to their size they do not have a huge selection. They can order anything, but I usually need the book immediately, or I’m not sure what book I want. I want to browse first, and they have limited inventory. None the less, my husband and I stop in around once a month and find something interesting to buy probably half of the time. Books sell for list price.

I love this place!!! I love the smell and the vibe of paperbacks, hardcovers and knowledge!!! It is soul soothing and quite restoring! It’s a mom and pop store so I am a HUGE supporter of them! It’s large size store with a tin ceiling, carpet and sofas, of which I am sitting on currently. It’s a must go when in Bucks county!!!

Terrible service. Never felt so uncomfortable. I asked they did book exchanges and she answered like she was annoyed with me. I felt like a bother and the whole time i was browsing she let out frustrated sighs. Sorry you’re having a bad day but I never want to go back to that store. I was having a nice day until I walked in there.

Awesome local book shop — I found it 18 years ago when I moved to Bucks County and it’s my go-​to place for buying and browsing.

I go to this bookshop often, I have been more impressed with the service lately. I like their kid’s section, bargain books, new releases, staff picks and magazine section. I also like that they can order a book with no obligation to buy, I like the reader’s rewards, its great to get a $ 10 gift certificate once having spent a certain amount. I am going to try a book club, they have many there which is nice. I went to a writer’s group which had autographed copies available, I also went to a great book signing which was great. Overall, I think it is a nice bookshop.

Nice small town bookstore. Store is nicely organized, clean and comfortable. There is a couch and some other seats and tables near the front window. I personally don’t read a lot of books but my nephew does. We picked up a few books for him. This store has two entrances, there’s the main entrance off of Main Street and you can also enter through the back.

Great kids section! My two young ones love this store. As for me, I often read using the Kindle app for iPhone, but sometimes you need to pick up the real thing. It’s great having a family-​owned bookstore in town and I’ve never had a bad experience there.

Gotta love Doylestown Bookshop for all it brings to the community, offers readers and children, and supports local authors! Discovering a great read, new gifts, book clubs, even great events! It’s all there at the Doylestown Bookshop!

I stop in this indie book shop every time I visit Doylestown for one main reason: the Staff Picks. I am a serious bibliophile and B&N and other chain book stores just don’t do staff picks anymore! I don’t want the NY Times to tell me what I book I should be reading — I would much rather have another bibliophile suggest something I may have never heard of before. On my recent trip to this place, I picked three titles from the staff picks section. When I went to pay for them, the person who rang me up commented one of my books (it was his pick) and let me know I was really in for a treat. I love this stuff. You can’t get this interaction on amazon or B&N. That’s why this place is amazing.

Superb selection of magazines. I find mags here I would have to go into a major city to find, and even then maybe not! This is the best feature of the store.
Big plus: they have a restroom, but you need to get the key.
The staff is friendly and helpful, always. I have always been impressed by the staff.
They do have a childrens section, as well. Good selection of teaching yourself foriegn languages books.
As for the hardcover books, they need to get a better stuff in. I agree with the 2 posters that brought this up. They seemed to have changed the depth and breadth of what they offer in the past few years. Esp. bad was the gardening, collectibles and antiques section. The store needs to live up to it’s potential a bit more.
I am glad D’town has an indy bookseller. They have a program where if you buy a certain dollar amount of books, you then get a certain dollar amount credit towards a book. A good idea.

I agree with those who say DB has room for improvement. I’ve been in a number of times and on at least three of them, I’ve asked for a long list of books and they’ve had none of them in stock! Not a single one.
It seems the owners can’t decide if DB should cater to the small town, interesting vibe that an indy should, or to the Barnes & Noble crowd. Perhaps they should have a few standard bestsellers, a number of NY Times’ picks, then fill the rest with areas of specialization (for example, they already do well on cook-​books, children’s, and magazines). It really is disappointing to ask for a book that the NY Times has listed as a top seller/​reviewed it, and not have it in stock, but then have plenty of, sorry to say it, absolute tripe.
What saves this bookstore from only getting 3 stars is the fact that it’s a great sized independent bookshop with wonderful events that at least offers to special order anything.
Really, DB, live up to your potential!

When shopping here remember that you’re in Doylestown so you will pay more. When I first walked in I was greeted kindly but not asked what I was looking for. I looked about for a about 10 minutes before asking the cashier if they have postcards. They did in a little makeshift café area.
This is the place to go if you want Bucks County postcards. Very beautiful photos. They have a nice stationary selection as well.
On that visit I wasn’t looking for a book but it has a nice selection of gifts.

This is the cutest small-​town bookstore I have come across in a long while.
That being said, I wish the selection was geared toward a few more classics, and there was more in the way of hard-​backed books. Upon speaking to the owners or employees I have found they will accommodate such needs by way of a special order, but I just wish they were in stock. Also on my wish-​list is a cozier place to sit and peruse the books you intend the purchase– right now it is a few sets of tables and chairs– when a cushy couch would be much more inviting.
Highlights of the store include a vast repository of Bucks County writers, and Bucks County topics (examples include the works of James A. Michener as well as a coffee-​table book on Bucks County Gardens), tons of modern fiction, a cute children’s literature section, and a great stationary, wrapping paper and gift card selection.
As previously mentioned, the staff is knowledgeable and helpful. There is also a frequent customer reward program which is nice. If you live near or around Doylestown, I recommend stopping in to support this local gem, but unfortunately you might need to go to a Barnes and Noble or
for nonfiction or classic books– especially if you are a book snob like me and prefer hardcover.

I feel that this store has some room for improvement. Their selection of modern fiction is reasonable, but beyond that there isn’t much to look at.
It is a pretty big store, and yet, it feels like they don’t have a lot of non-​fiction. For example, their politics/​current events section was crammed into a few shelves on the wall. If there’s one thing I feel should be expanded.
Still, there are positives. I had a specific book in mind that I wanted to get as a gift and they had it. They also have a wall of recommendations, and a good number of them.
All in all, I’d recommend going here, especially if you know what you’re looking for. Also, their inventory is well complimented by the used bookstore around the corner.

Wonderful place. My mom and sisters go there frequently, mainly to purchase their school-​required reading books from a local, small business. I go there because they seemingly always have what I’m looking for, and sometimes something new catches my eye and I’ll sit down and browse. The people are always nice, and no one has yet bugged me about bringing in coffee from Coffee & Cream (which I somehow always do). I do wish they had some comfy couches or something better than their chairs, but I guess that’s just more of an incentive to actually buy whatever you’re reading and take it home. I’d give it more than 5 stars, because recently, I had to call a bunch of independent bookstores in the Philadelphia area to see if they’d want to carry a few copies of a book (written by an author whom I’m supporting through internship work, Philadelphia Stories). Many places have been rude (understandable, given our current economy and its unfriendliness to small businesses) but Doylestown came through. The person I spoke with was super nice and supportive, and made my phone-​phobia go away. Although I don’t live in Doylestown anymore, I’ll continue to go here every time I visit and I really wish Philly had a place as cool as this.

UPDATED APRIL 7, 2011
This place is the BEST. A nice little cool, comfy town. No stress, lots of great stores in Doylestown.
This Doylestown Bookshop is a nice store. Nice people, friendly and professional and helpful.
For me, being used to different bookstores, unique ones or very large ones, the store is a slight disappointment. I would have liked more.
It is an okay bookstore if you happen to be here but it is not one that you would travel to see or use.
For neighborhood people it is fine, simply because they do not have to go far to get to the bookstore.
You can make this a day trip if you drive there without making the bookshop as your main focus. Doylestown is a cute little town with interesting sites. So, it is a nice day, and end it off by checking out the books in this store.
ADDED: This little town is especially nice to visit during the Christmas season. And it has a cute little bookshop also.