Bethany Beach Books

We went here on a rainy day during our vacation with our two and four year old boys. We read books with them in the children’s section and perused the store, which was empty save for one other family with a young child. The boys were fully supervised the entire time and did not disturb any of the merchandise. My husband and sons were watching the rain as I walked to the desk to purchase our books, when the clerk critically looked at my children and recommended that we leave and visit the library instead. I was shocked and remarked that our children had been well behaved, quiet, and supervised the entire time during our visit. She agreed, but complained that they were looking out the windows and climbing into the chairs. I replied that they were reading books in the chairs with us, and were watching the rain through the windows, not bothering anyone or any merchandise. She argued that there were cords near the windows and asked us again to leave. I was, and am still, completely shocked. Our children didn’t bother any merchandise, disturb any customers, were completely supervised, and we were planning to purchase some books. Instead of asking us to not sit near the window, we were asked to leave. Just horrible customer service. I would not recommend this store to anyone, especially families with children.

Cute, quaint and packed with beautiful books in a wide selection! This is a cozy place to browse and will have so many great books you can’t pick just one. Only wish they also had magazines!

This is my favorite bookstore. All of the employees are very helpful and I can browse the shelves as long as I want. A good selection of current books, some with store employees comments and reviews. I especially like the selection of recommended titles.

I was very impressed with this gem of a bookstore located right in town! They had a great selection of Star Wars books for my early reader son. He is excited to be reading while on vacation! (Score!). There was comfortable seating in a few places in order to peruse the books you may want to buy. All the best sellers seemed to be in stock. As we were walking to the checkout I decided to pay cover price for one on the shelf. Hey, gotta support the local businesses! The lady at the checkout was very pleasant and attentive.
Knocked off a star due to one surly employee sitting in a back room who gave me and my son dirty looks while walking in front of and practically over us to get by because my son was knelt on the floor looking at a book on a lower shelf.

Great book store to grab one for the beach. 50% off section too! Down side: small, but hey it’s a beach store not Barnes and Mega.

Though the store appears cheery, the staff seemed annoyed and I even overheard rude comments spoken. Considering the book selectionis typical, I will be sure to go to a more welcomig store.

I’ve been coming to this area since I was a wee lass. If you ran out of beach reads you generally went to an Atlantic Book Store. However, Atlantic Book Stores are things of the past along with rotary phones and pay phones.
Stopped in today, what a charming shop! They had a great children’s book author autographing his books and interacting with young readers! An excellent bargain selection of hardbacks in the 5 – 9 dollar range and a wide selection. A book for every member of your crew! They also had a great selection of books on the local beach towns which my mother really enjoyed perusing.
What a gem of a bookstore! Support your local independent booksellers before Amazon kills them!

This is one of our first stops when we go to Bethany! We load up on books at this shop and never leave empty handed. Their selection is awesome and you are bound to find something you’ll want to read. There’s also a $ 5 hardcover book section, so keep your eyes out for that for a steal!

It is nice to have a place like this at the beach. I love an independant bookstore and I always find random treasures at this place all about local lore and wildlife along with my must have trashy novels. Parking can be a bear but it is an easy walk if you are staying in town.

Bethany Beach Books has a pretty large selection at decent prices. They had a lot on sale when I stopped by with some especially good deals on audiobooks. It’s a great location right off the boardwalk if you’re in need of some beach reads.

I dunno I give this four because it’s independent and the people are so nice. They do a pretty good job of stocking things with summer reads and I bet of my yearly book budget I drop a lot of it here in summer months!