A few years ago I asked What happened to Melbourne’s second-hand bookshops?. I gotta update that list, but in the meantime here’s another (I presume incomplete) list of second-hand bookshops in ‘regional’ Victoria.
Albury*
Books on Dean ‘Our bookshop is located next to the Cinema Centre, at the railway end of Dean Street, in Albury’ (NSW).
Bacchus Marsh
Forge Bookbarn : 100 Main Street
Ballarat
• Minerva’s Books & Ideas ‘Formerly a secondhand bookshop at the front of the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute in Ballarat and now selling books online and producing creative media about the lives of books and the ideas they ignite.’
• Sothis Books and Sartorial [Facebook] : 121 Sturt Street
• The Known World Bookshop [Facebook] : 28 Main Road
Beechworth
Quercus : 26-30 Ford Street
Belgrave
Through the Looking Glass : 1669 Burwood Highway
Benalla
Good Reading : 45 Church Street : ‘Visitors to our Benalla shop, please note that our hours are irregular.’
Bendigo
• Benjamin Jay Books : Plumes Emporium, 284-288 High Street
• Book Mark [Facebook] : 24 High Street
• Book Now : 1 Farmers Lane
Campbell’s Creek
Book Heaven : 47 Main Road
Castlemaine
• Mount of Alex : 273 Barker Street
• Soldier & Scholar : 215 Barker Street
Clunes is Booktown
• Huc & Gabet: Books of Interest : ‘The Bookatorium is a small book shop hidden away close to the centre of Clunes … only open by appointment. If you’re here in town call us and if we are available, we can open in a few minutes … don’t be shy, call us.’
• Index on Literature : 102 Bailey Street
Orpheus
• The Book Fossicker : 55 Fraser Street [Scratched?]
Daylesford
Paradise Bookshop [Facebook] : 46 Vincent Street
Eaglehawk
Trash Cult : 15 High Street
Echuca
Read Heeler [Facebook] : 580 High Street
Euroa
Already Read : 78 Binney Street
Geelong
Books Around [Facebook] : 24 James Street
Read Heeler : 192 Moorabool Street
Kyneton
• Aesop’s Attic : 70 High Street
• Long Story Short : Upstairs 58-60 Piper Street
Port Fairy
Blarney Books & Art : 37 James Street
Portland
Paper Nautilus Bookstore : 65/67 Bentinck Street
Rutherglen
Tapsell’s Books and Music : 77 Main Street
Talbot
Slightly Bent Books : 49 Scandinavian Crescent
Warrandyte
Yarra Cottage Books : 189 Yarra Street
Wonthaggi
Ramalama Book Exchange [Facebook] : 1 McBride Avenue
Woodend
Woodend Bookshop : 104 High Street
Yarck
Books At Yarck : 6591 Maroondah Highway
The Book Inn, 94 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Vic
Albury also has “by the book” and the Beechworth community bookstore is fantastic as well