Used bookstoresBook Nook
3073 N Druid Hills Rd, Decatur, GA 30033
The address reads Decatur, but the North Druid Hills strip malls are unincorporated DeKalb County, and this is the volume play — family-run since 1973 across used books, comics, physical media, games and collectibles. It buys and trades as well as sells: the FAQ rules out encyclopedias and textbooks, wants good condition or better, sends you to a published paperback-and-hardcover rate sheet, and says outright that VHS is neither bought nor sold any more. The Internet Archive's capture of January 8, 2026 shows the same buy, sell and trade banner the site still runs, and the FAQ posts the widest week on this page: 11am to 9pm, every day.
Hours : Daily 11am–9pmWebsite Used bookstoresEagle Eye Book Shop
2076 N Decatur Rd, Decatur, GA 30033
Also unincorporated DeKalb, out on North Decatur Road near Emory, Eagle Eye shelves new and used together and its trade desk is the strictest on this page: credit toward anything in the shop, never cash. The published guidelines cap you at three of the shop's own crates a day, make you repack into them, require you to stay while the evaluation runs, and close buying after 6pm Monday to Saturday and all day Sunday; no appointment otherwise. Books turned down for trade but accepted as donations go onto the sidewalk shelves, and the takings pass through the Rotary Club of Decatur to local literacy and at-risk-youth work. For a substantial collection around Decatur it will send a buyer to the house, and the event calendar was still filling with author nights through September 2026.
Hours : Mon–Sat 10am–7pm, Sun noon–6pmWebsite Used bookstoresBibliotech
1390 McLendon Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30307
A one-room shop on McLendon Avenue in Candler Park that bills itself as carrying used, rare, collectible and unusual books across thousands of titles, with a listing pattern that runs from Soviet poster monographs to a first-printing paperback of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. It works as a rentable room too: Creative Loafing's venue page for the address logs a stand-up showcase held there on February 20, 2026, and the shop points bookers at its own scheduling link. Neither its site nor that venue page carries opening hours, so use the phone number on the contact page before you cross town for it.
Rare Black literatureFor Keeps Books
171 Auburn Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30303
On Sweet Auburn, two doors from the Auburn Avenue Research Library, Rosa Duffy has specialized in rare and classic Black literature since opening in November 2018, with first editions and out-of-print titles by Alice Walker, Ralph Ellison and Octavia Butler on the shelves. Part of what is in the room is a reading collection rather than stock — some volumes can be read in the shop but not bought, which is the whole design of the place. The city's own visitor guide, published on February 3, 2026, calls it part reading room, part cultural archive; go for the reference depth, not for a box of resale inventory. The Shopify storefront carries only book, signed and merch collections — no hours, no address page — so check the shop's own channels before making the trip.
Used bookstoresRed's Corner
5060 N Royal Atlanta Dr, Tucker, GA 30084
Out in Tucker, another DeKalb city with its own government, Red's Corner runs from a suite on North Royal Atlanta Drive and is far more warehouse than storefront. Its Biblio storefront lists 71,748 items, 8,748 of them flagged as first editions, and the Internet Archive was still capturing that page in February 2026; on AbeBooks the same seller has traded since March 26, 2018. The one thing nobody agrees on is when it opens — a single directory entry manages to give both seven and eight in the morning as the weekday start, and no schedule appears on the seller's own pages — so the hours field is left empty here and a phone call beats a drive.
Used bookstoresHalf Price Books East Cobb
1205 Johnson Ferry Rd, Marietta, GA 30068
The second Georgia branch is sixteen miles north, in unincorporated Cobb County behind a Marietta address, at Johnson Ferry Road in East Cobb. Same chain rules as the Decatur floor: a buy counter running through store hours, photo ID at the desk, and staff who will search stock nationwide and ship a title in for pickup if it is not on the shelf. It appears on the Half Price Books Georgia page, footed 2026, next to Decatur and nowhere else, and the Georgia Antiquarian Booksellers Association carries both branches in its Marietta and Decatur member lists.
Hours : Mon–Sat 10am–8pm, Sun 11am–7pmWebsite Used bookstoresBookmiser
3822 Roswell Rd, Marietta, GA 30062
Just over a mile west of the East Cobb HPB and still in unincorporated Cobb, Bookmiser trades under the name Bookmiser New & Used Books on its own social channels and keeps a straight seven-day week at Roswell and Robinson. Its calendar had Renea Winchester launching The Mountains Remember at this store on Friday, October 9, 2026, a Johns Creek arts fair on September 26, 2026, and Brad Thor with Ward Larsen booked into a Forsyth County library for January 10, 2027. The stated mission is helping independent bookshops survive ecommerce, and the site gives a single phone number for product requests, author inquiries and book club questions, so it is worth phoning about a specific title rather than turning up to browse.
Hours : Mon–Sat 10am–6pm, Sun noon–5pmWebsite