Iowa Indie Bookshop Tour

Iowa Indie Bookshop Tour 🗓️3rd year dates: July 1 - Sept 31, 2026
🚙Visit Iowa’s indie bookshops
đź’›Stamp your passport
📚Chance to win prizes

📚✨THE COUNTDOWN IS ON!!✨📚In 2 weeks, your EPIC summer literary adventure begins! 62 indie bookshops, a whole state to di...
06/16/2026

📚✨THE COUNTDOWN IS ON!!✨📚

In 2 weeks, your EPIC summer literary adventure begins! 62 indie bookshops, a whole state to discover, and endless bookish joy!

Who is in?! Tag your book-loving crew and start planning!

The Iowa Indie Bookshop Tour is BACK—and it starts in just THREE WEEKS!  🚙📚✨Get ready, book lovers—our third annual Tour...
06/10/2026

The Iowa Indie Bookshop Tour is BACK—and it starts in just THREE WEEKS! 🚙📚✨

Get ready, book lovers—our third annual Tour kicks off July 1st and runs through September 30th, and it’s going to be bigger and more exciting than ever!

Here’s how you can join the fun:

📚Grab your passport, murder mystery & bingo card from any of our 62 participating bookshops across Iowa.

🚙 Hit the road! From July 1 through September 30, visit as many indie bookstores as you can. Just two stamps in your passport gets you entered for prizes—but the more you visit, the more chances you have to win!

📍Each stamp equals another entry into our prize drawings.

🏆Go for the grand prize! Visit 55 or more stores and you’ll be in the running for some big prizes.

📮 Don’t forget to turn in your passport at your last stop by September 30 to qualify.

🔍New this year: Bookshop Murder Mystery! Collect up to 14 clues from our bookshops to solve the murder. Once you have your suspect, you submit your final answer via QR code (on the card or our website) for chance to win prizes.

✨Bonus: Play Bookshop Bingo! Complete your bingo card and submit it via the QR code (on the card or our website) for even more chances to win.

Remember to use , tag us & the bookshop you visited on FB, IG, or TikTok for a chance to win a prize!!

Let’s make this the most unforgettable book tour yet—see you on the road!

We had our first Iowa Bookshop Conference!!As we talked about our Tour both planning for this year & ideas for next, we ...
06/09/2026

We had our first Iowa Bookshop Conference!!

As we talked about our Tour both planning for this year & ideas for next, we were joined by the team from Travel Iowa and Nolan from NewBo City Market to discuss tourism and business growth.

✨23 days until Tour starts✨

Yay!! Passports and Bingo cards are ready for the Tour!! Thank you to our sponsor, Prints Copy Center, for making these ...
06/06/2026

Yay!! Passports and Bingo cards are ready for the Tour!!

Thank you to our sponsor, Prints Copy Center, for making these for us!! ✨💛

Hey bookish travelers — here is a compiled list of days our bookshops will be open for the start of the Tour in July!We ...
06/05/2026

Hey bookish travelers — here is a compiled list of days our bookshops will be open for the start of the Tour in July!

We know you love to plan and this will help you.
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✨Reminder- please check each bookshop’s socials for updates near and on travel days. Each is a small business and life happens.

Hey bookish travelers — we have curated unique themed routes for you as well!You can find these routes and more on our w...
05/29/2026

Hey bookish travelers — we have curated unique themed routes for you as well!

You can find these routes and more on our website to help inspire your journey across Iowa to our bookshops. This includes a link to Google Maps.

Fun Routes:
🚌Read Along the River
🚌I-380 Corridor
🚌Just the New Ones
🚌Scoop the Loop - Hit all the bookshops!

✨Days until the Tour- 33✨

Hey bookish travelers — we have curated even more routes for you! You can find these routes and more on our website to h...
05/28/2026

Hey bookish travelers — we have curated even more routes for you!

You can find these routes and more on our website to help inspire your journey across Iowa to our bookshops.

Part Three:
🚌Southwest Route
📚Hedgie's Books, Toys & More
📚Books & Bubbles
📚The Honeyed Page Bookstore
📚The Latest Edition Bookstore
📚The Velvet Nook & Roast
📚Pageturners Bookstore

🚌Des Moines Route
📚Wandering Raccoon Books
📚Reading in Public Bookstore + Cafe
📚Storyhouse Bookpub
📚Nos Books
📚Shelf Love DSM
📚Beaverdale Books
📚The Little Book
📚Dungeon's Gate

🚌West Central Route
📚Books and Bakery
📚Century Farm Books & Brews
📚The Book Shoppe, Inc.
📚Dog-Eared Books Ames
📚Fizz & Fiction

✨Days until the Tour- 34✨

Hey bookish travelers — we have curated more routes for you! You can find these routes and more on our website to help i...
05/26/2026

Hey bookish travelers — we have curated more routes for you!

You can find these routes and more on our website to help inspire your journey across Iowa to our bookshops.

Part Two:
🚌Iowa City Route
📚Gnoll's Loot Table
📚The Haunted Bookshop of Iowa City
📚Prairie Lights Bookstore
📚Sidekick Coffee & Books
📚Captain's Book Shoppe LLC

🚌Cedar Rapids Route
📚Wren and Purl
📚Swamp Fox Bookstore
📚Alter Ego Comics - Iowa
📚HEA Book Boutique
📚Next Page Books of Cedar Rapids
📚I'll Meet You There
📚Sisters Books & Nooks, LLC
📚Shady Character Books

🚌South Central Route
📚Pioneer Bookshop, Grinnell College
📚Mattingly Music, Book & Hobby
📚Pella Books
📚Book Vault

✨Days until the Tour- 36✨

Hey bookish travelers — we have curated routes for you! You can find these routes and more on our website to help inspir...
05/23/2026

Hey bookish travelers — we have curated routes for you!

You can find these routes and more on our website to help inspire your journey across Iowa to our bookshops.

Part One:
🚌North Route
📚Perennial Pages Bookshoppe
📚Three Bells Books
📚Prologue Books & Wine
📚Dragonfly Books
📚The Silver Birch Christian Books and Gifts
📚The Shelf
📚The Nook
📚Books on Main

🚌Northwest Route
📚Book People
📚The Book Vine
📚Goose Feather Books
📚 Volume J
📚Night Owl Books
📚 The Green Dragon Bookshop

🚌East Route
📚Paper Moon
📚River Lights Bookstore
📚The Book Worm
📚The Book Rack
📚Good Spot Bookshop
📚The Brewed Book
📚Source Bookstore

🚌South East Route
📚The Corner
📚BurlingtonBytheBook
📚Bent Oak Books
📚By the Hearth Bookshop

✨Days until the Tour- 39 ✨

Hey bookish travelers — our new 2026 merch is live!!! Including a bonus of three Iowa Cryptids!! You can find the link t...
05/19/2026

Hey bookish travelers — our new 2026 merch is live!!! Including a bonus of three Iowa Cryptids!!

You can find the link to our bonfire shop in the comments below and on our website.

Each design comes in various styles, color options, and sizes.

Perfect for you to wear as you travel Iowa this summer, visiting our bookshops.

Art by the amazing Kevin Cannon

Address

Fort Dodge, IA
50501

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