2025 Great Pittsburgh Book Crawl
The Great Pittsburgh Book Crawl is making its debut in 2025 for a week filled with exploring and supporting local and independent bookstores. From May 10 through 18, over 20 bookstores in the Pittsburgh area will be giving out passports and stamps for those passports, which you can use to win a prize at the end of the event!
How it works...
A book crawl encourages you to stop and visit participating stores during the dates of the crawl and shop there inventory. Pittsburgh's book crawl features over 20 local and independent bookstores just waiting for you to stop by! Pick up a passport book from your first stop and make sure to get it stamped at every store along the way. Get enough stamps and you'll be entered to win a raffled prize put together by every store in the crawl.
Participating stores

Amazing Books and Records
Squirrel Hill
Beyond Bedtime Books
Dormont

Blythe Books and Fine Gifts
Brentwood
City Books
North Side
Location Not Available
Doomed Planet Comics and BooksPolish Hill
Fungus Books
Wilkinsburg
Kards Unlimited
Shadyside
Karen’s Book Row
Oakland
Caliban Books
Oakland
Little Green Bookstore
Zelienople

Mystery Lover’s Bookstore
Oakmont
One Idea Books and Gifts
Leechburg
Phantom of the Attic Comics
Oakland
Riverstone Books
Squirrel Hill
Riverstone Books
McCandless
Spark Books
Aspinwall
Stay Gold Books
Regent Square
Stories Like Me
Greenfield
The Book Cellar
Mt. Lebanon
Vintage Max Mercantile
Bellevue

White Whale Bookstore
Bloomfield
Woolly Bear Books
Carnegie

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