Harriett's Bookshop

Shopping · Retail Business

Philadelphia, PA, United States

This welcoming, Fishtown -based, women-centric, art- and activism-forward, frankincense-scented, named-for-Harriet-Tubman bookstore is owned by founder and now-author herself Jeannine A. Cook, who opened it in February 2020. On its shelves: classics by Octavia Butler and Toni Morrison, contemporary best-sellers from the likes of Elizabeth Acevedo and Brit Bennett, memoirs, children’s books and more titles that Cook herself loves to read. Cook has since expanded her literary empire, with a sister