Pickwick Book Shop — Local services in Town of Orangetown

Fantastic family-owned bookshop in quaint Nyack, NY. I grew up in Nyack but it's a lovely place to visit not far from NYC, and for all visitors, I highly recommend peeking in!

It's an old-fashioned book shop that's packed to the rafters with finds, and has a lovely children's section at the back. They also sell calendars and other related items. The staff are wonderful at their jobs and will happily recommend some titles and talk with you at length about books. And the music is great as well.

A must-visit!

ETA: For the people giving poor reviews because the store is currently offering different services due to COVID-19, that is not a fair review. This store has been shipping worldwide and providing delivery locally throughout the entire pandemic. The space inside is very small and tight. They are making the best decisions they can to serve their customers safely, and as we all know, every business is performing this calculus based on the current numbers, which change day to day.

Please support them through this time and I'll see you there when they've safely...

Small "business" making very little attempt to sell anything to anyone; A&E should film an episode of the hit series "Hoarders" at Pickwick Book Shop.

Are you looking for something specific or just browsing? It barely matters: titles aren't organized by author or by genre, nor are they even separated by "new" or used. And yes, the scare quotes are justified. The store attempts to market gently-used-but-clearly-decades-old titles as "new" and worth cover MSRP, even for out-of-print textbooks. I suppose they could hypothetically justify this if they maintained inventory with an antiquarian spirit, but Pickwick seems possessed more by the geist of a storage locker than an archive: complete with unstowed building materials, copious dust, and a fetid stench.

Many bookstores have overly pretentious and unjustified names, but Pickwick actually managed to reference the right author if the wrong work. Obviously, they should have named the store Havisham's House of Books: the Miss couldn't separate old...

This place is exactly how all small books stores should be! Absolutely love it. It bothers me that the only complaints are from keyboard warriors who come to complain about the thing that sets this place so high on my list like for instance (Roland Coffey) above complaining about the very thing that attracts people to the store and that he came to take pictures of just because he wasn’t aloud to. In my opinion that’s just B*tchy. If on is truly unhappy with the way most old books shops are, go to Barnes and noble.. or better yet save us all the hassle of dealing with you in public and use Amazon. The rest of us love how this place and other are set up and it’s people like you all who complain and ruin it for the majority because someone has to appease the serious minority. If you’re looking for something specific, ASK! The people who works there know where everything is. It’s like if things aren’t perfectly robotically cookie cutter some people just overload and crash and...