A Bookstore Worth Leaving Nashville For
Nashville has wonderful bookstores. Landmark Booksellers is the one that has what they do not: roughly 35,000 titles including deep pre-owned and rare stock, more than 2,000 signed first editions, and a wall holding about 200 of the finest books ever written in chronological order. It is a 25 minute drive and it has been worth it since 2005.
Getting Here from Nashville
| From downtown Nashville | I-65 South to exit 65, then Murfreesboro Road into Historic Downtown Franklin. About 25 to 30 minutes. |
| From Brentwood | About 20 minutes south on Franklin Road or I-65. |
| From Nashville International Airport (BNA) | About 30 minutes. |
| From Green Hills or Belle Meade | About 25 minutes via Hillsboro Pike or Franklin Road. |
| Where to park | Free street and lot parking throughout Historic Downtown Franklin. |
| Address | 114 East Main Street, Franklin, TN 37064 |
What You Will Find Here That You Will Not Find in Town
| Looking for | Why Landmark |
|---|---|
| Signed first editions | Over 2,000 in stock at any time, one of the deepest signed inventories in Middle Tennessee, spanning literary fiction, history, and Southern writers. |
| Rare and out-of-print | A full antiquarian department with prices from $10 to $10,000. If it is out of print and Southern, this is where to start. |
| Southern Americana & Tennessee history | Our specialty since day one, including Civil War and Western Theater scholarship that general bookstores do not stock. |
| A reading list to work through | The Great Wall: about 200 of the greatest books ever written, shelved in chronological order from antiquity forward. No other bookstore in the region has one. |
| Middle Tennessee authors | More than 260 local authors carried, with signings most weekends. |
| Selling books you own | We buy pre-owned, rare, and signed books from the public and give free valuations. Worth the drive from Nashville with a box in the trunk. |
| A monthly book habit | Hand-picked monthly subscriptions from $39 including shipping, delivered anywhere in the Nashville area. |
Make a Day of It
Landmark sits in the Old Factory Store, the oldest commercial building still standing in Historic Franklin, on a Main Street regularly named one of the best-preserved historic downtowns in America. Park once and you are within a few blocks of the Franklin Theatre, the Main Street shops and restaurants, and the Civil War sites at Carter House and Carnton. Most Nashville visitors come for the bookstore and stay for the afternoon.