Axios: Bookstore renaissance. Comment. Thrilled. Books are special, you gather them throughout your life and they are reminders. For people with mental illness, reading if at all possible is recommended. The term is bibliotherapy.

📚 Bookstore renaissance
 
Illustration of a row of books with an awning hanging over the top.
Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Stock: Getty Images
 
Fewer Americans are reading books, but here’s the plot twist: Bookstores are staging a comeback.

Why it matters: Barnes & Noble and independent bookstores — once left for dead in the wake of Amazon’s rise and the death of Borders — have pulled off a stunning turnaround, opening new stores and reporting higher sales, Axios’ Nathan Bomey reports.
“The revival is there,” Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt tells Axios.

📈 Independent booksellers are also enjoying a renaissance.

The number of U.S. bookstore companies rose 70%, from 2,010 in 2021 to 3,416 in 2025, according to the American Booksellers Association.73% of booksellers recorded a sales increase in 2025.

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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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