After visiting Friends To Lovers, Jelaina and I began our walk to Old Town Books.

Founded in 2018, Old Town Books is a large indie bookstore in Historic Alexandria that exclusively sells new books.

There was a diverse range of books with nice displays.

It is a beautiful space.

I love seeing shelf talkers and what booksellers are recommending.

They had a nice amount of romance too!

I of course found Beverly Jenkins (if you're a bookstore reading this and you don't have any Beverly Jenkins in your store, what are you doing? And if you're a reader that likes romance and haven't read anything by her, go grab one).

Anyways, I saw some other favorites. Love In Bloom is perfect if you enjoyed Lucy Score's The Things We Never Got Over.

Jelaina and I kept walking and eventually entered Old Town Books Junior, the teen and younger section.

It was so cute and welcoming to younger readers.

I was happy to see Ruta Sepetys. I love her novels which are historic fiction. They have a ton of crossover appeal too. I read her in high school and still read her now. Between Shades of Gray shredded my heart along with Salt To The Sea.

I left with a bookseller recommendation of Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris. Jenna Voris is also local to the store too! That was the end of our Apollycon bookstore crawl. I realize now that I forgot to take a picture of myself there!