Online Literary Shops
Be an original! Find unique gifts and support literacy by visiting our favorite literary landmark shops. Each offers unusual and meaningful gift ideas for the book lovers, teachers, librarians, and history buffs in your life. Author Adventures receives no compensation from these inspiring stores other than pure delight.
1888 at Hotel Del Coronado (L. Frank Baum) (CA): https://store.hoteldel.com
Charles M. Schulz Museum Shop (CA): https://shop.schulzmuseum.org
Edgar Allan Poe House (VA): http://www.poemuseum.org/museum-store
Ernest Hemingway House Shop (FL): https://www.hemingwayhome.com/store
Frederick Douglass House Bookstore (DC): https://shop.americasnationalparks.org/store/home/3081/Frederick-Douglass-Home-National-Historic-Site
Georgia O’Keeffe’s Ghost Ranch (NM): https://www.ghostranch.org/trading-post
Hearst Castle (CA): http://shop.hearstcastle.org
James Madison’s Montpelier (VA): https://shop.montpelier.org
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Store (MA): https://store.jfklibrary.org
Larry McMurtry’s Booked Up (TX): http://www.bookedupac.com
Library of Congress (DC): http://library-of-congress-shop.myshopify.com
Louise Erdrich’s Birchbark Books (MN): http://birchbarkbooks.com/onlineshop
Mark Twain House (CT): http://store.marktwainhouse.org
National Steinbeck Center Store (CA): https://www.steinbeck.org/shop
Norman Rockwell Museum (MA): http://store.nrm.org
Orchard House (MA): https://louisamayalcott.org/store
Plimoth Plantation (MA): http://www.plimoth.org/plan-your-visit/shop
Powell’s Books (OR): http://www.powells.com
Prairie Lights (IA): http://www.prairielights.com
The Strand (NY): http://www.strandbooks.com/about-strand-books
Tattered Cover (CO): http://www.tatteredcover.com
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello (VA): http://www.monticelloshop.org
And don’t miss UneekDollDesigns, whose miniature dolls of famous writers appear on several pages of authoradventures.org. An example is here: Emily Dickinson.
Patricia Smart