Blue Ridge Books is a female-owned business located in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina. We have been a part of the Waynesville community for more than a dozen years. Our store opened in 2007 in the strip shopping center on Main Street. The current owners, Jo and Allison, took over in 2010 and in 2017 moved the store to the historic Hazelwood Village in Waynesville.

As an independent, locally owned business, the community has always been a major focus of the bookstore. We love to talk about books with our customers, and we listen to what interests them. We also know how important it is to find a child’s first book, a book for someone going through a tough time or just as an escape. It is a wonderful feeling to put a book in someone’s hands that we know they will love. An independent bookstore seeks to strike a balance between popular, well-known titles, and those special books that may escape notice in the broader media.

We also enjoy working with and providing discounts to students, schools, community groups, and book clubs. Near and dear to us are Head Start and READ, two programs that we have supported over the last few years. By combining our efforts with donations from our customers, we provide books for preschool students in Head Start. We also host several yearly craft sales, offering items made in Ecuador. All proceeds go back to Ecuador to purchase books for rural libraries in the Andes that are sponsored by READ.

The most popular sections in our store contain local books, mystery/thrillers, fiction, and, literally a vault full of gorgeous children's books. We also carry magazines and newspapers for those people that just need a quick reading fix.

We would love for you to visit us and spend time browsing our shelves, but if that isn’t possible for you, you can still shop with us online and take a look at some of our favorites. The online list includes more books than are in stock at the store.

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If you have a special interest in local non-fiction, please give us a call to order regional titles that may not be available through our online system.