Books, Washington DC

Websites about books in the District of Columbia, nearby Maryland, and northern Virginia.

Store and Sale Directories

• Book Sale Finder, for DC
• Bookstores in the DC area
• Disorientation Guide to Bookstores
• Family & Children's Bookstore Directory
• Greater DC Web Directory, Book shopping
• Independent Bookstores in DC
• Washington DC City Pages, Shopping for Books
• Washington's Best Bookstores

Organizations

• Children's Book Guild of Washington, D.C.
• Women's National Book Association, Washington Chapter
• The Word Works
• Washington DC Summer Kid's Reading Programs
• Washington Antiquarian Booksellers Association

Libraries

• DC Library's Center for the Book
• District of Columbia Public Library
• The Library of Congress
• Center for the Book in the Library of Congress

Writers' organizations

• DC Science Writers Association (DCSWA)
• DC Writers Corps
• National Writers Union, Washington Local (NWU-DC), Writer's Bloc Online
• Washington Independent Writers
• The Writer's Center, in Bethesda

Book Festivals and Fairs

• Fall for the Book festival, at George Mason Univ. (GMU) in Fairfax VA each September
• Green Valley Book Fair, in Harrisonburg Virginia
• National Book Festival, at the U.S. Capitol each October
• Virginia Festival of the Book, in Charlottesville each March
• Washington Antiquarian Book Fair, in Rosslyn each February

Local newspapers' sections about books

• Washington City Paper City Books (literary supplement four times annually) and City List for Books
• Washington Post, Book World
• Washington Times, Books

DC directories

• Literary Life, Washington DC, at Let's Go
• Literature, Washington DC City Pages
• Washington DC Books and Maps

Worldwide resources

• Meetup, Books
• Meetup, Hobbies, Arts (includes writing)
• Literature, Internet directory at Google
• Writers Resources, Internet directory at Google