Independent bookshop · Phoenix, AZ

Come for one book,
leave with three.

A small shop with a long memory. New releases up front, secondhand treasures in the back, and a staff who will not stop until they have found your next read.

Slide a book off the shelf to read about it.

Tender Roots
A. Okafor
Fiction

Tender Roots

by Ada Okafor

A quiet, generous novel about a garden, a grief, and the neighbors who show up anyway. The kind of book you press into a friend's hands.

Marisol's pick $18 paperback
The shop

Books chosen by hand, one reader at a time.

We opened Marginalia because the best bookstore is the one that remembers what you read last. Every title on the shelf is here because someone who works here loved it, argued for it, and wanted you to find it. Pull up a chair, ask a hard question, and let us surprise you.

Since 2016
On the corner
9,000+
Titles in stock
New & used
Trade-ins welcome
Staff picks

What we are pressing on people this month.

The same books that are on the shelf above, laid out to read at your own pace. Every one comes with the name of the bookseller who will not shut up about it.

On the calendar

Readings, clubs, and the occasional cheese plate.

The shop after hours is the best part of the shop. Everything here is free unless we say otherwise, and everyone is welcome.

Can't make it in?

Order online, we ship anywhere.

Buy through our Bookshop.org storefront and a share of every sale comes back to the shop. Or message us and we will hold it at the counter.

Come see us

Find the shop.

7th Avenue &
Melrose curve

Look for the striped awning and the cart of dollar paperbacks on the sidewalk. Street parking on 7th, more behind the building off the alley.

Address
2211 N 7th Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85007
Hours
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