The Ivy Bookshop

Listed for students and visitors near Towson University in Towson, Maryland.

The Ivy Bookshop at 5928 Falls Road in Baltimore has been the city's largest indie bookstore since 2001 and is woman-owned. It stocks literary fiction, mystery, history, art, poetry and children's books, plus cards and games, in a converted 19th-century building with a garden gazebo.