Court Street Books has been open for just a couple of years, but when you walk in you get the feeling they’ve been around much longer. It’s just so obvious that they know what they’re doing. These are book people.

The shop has an incredible offering of both new and used books all sitting on the shelves together. It’s always fun knowing you might trip over a book from years ago that you missed and that you can compare used and new book prices. They also had lots of discount carts with 30% prices.

I got to Court Street Books around 5:30pm on a Wednesday and there were lots of folks still hanging around, attending an event, buying coffee, picking up books and just enjoying being in the presence of other book folks.

One of my favorite things about Court Street Books is that they maintain an online storefront on AbeBooks listing all of the older and more collectible books that come across their desks when folks are selling their used books. I wish more shops did this. They also maintain a pretty robust events calendar and loads of stickers, pins, and shirts all over the shop.

There are plenty of reasons to visit the quad-cities area of Alabama. When you do go visit, I recommend putting Court Street Books on your agenda.

Court Street Books
610 S. Court Street
Florence, Alabama 35630
(256) 633-0469
hello@courtstreetbooks.com