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Kindred Stories

Discover Black authors and local makers in Houston’s historic Third Ward.

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An independent bookstore in Houston’s Third Ward, inside the Historic Eldorado Ballroom, dedicated to Black authors and Black artisans. Deep ties to the neighbourhood, a regular calendar of author events and readings, and partnerships with local organisations.

Neighbourhood
South Side, Houston
What it is
Independent bookstore
Street plan around Kindred Stories
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The quick read

Your kind of place?

Go if

you want a bookstore with a point of view, if you care about who publishes and who gets shelved, or if you are visiting Houston and would like one stop that tells you something true about the city.

Go elsewhere if

you need a cafe, a comfortable chair, and three hours.

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02 / Photographs

Inside the bookshop

Face-out novels beneath a STAFF PICKS sign, each paired with a bookseller’s recommendation card.
Staff picksInterlibrary loan: this one is from Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, not Kindred Stories. We will return it with our own on the next visit.
A staircase with a swirling multicolored runner, curved wooden handrail and iron balusters, rising between red walls beside bookshelves.
What makes it itselfInterlibrary loan: this one is from Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, not Kindred Stories. We will return it with our own on the next visit.

Frames we do not have:

  • Outside: We have no photograph of the front of the shop yet.
  • Somewhere to sit: We did not photograph a place to sit here, and we would rather leave the gap than show you somebody else's chairs.
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