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Inked & Bound Books

Dark romance and fantasy share a room with a tattoo studio.

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A hybrid business in Midtown Phoenix: a fine line tattoo studio and an indie romance bookstore sharing one room, on N 7th Street. The book side is narrow by design, weighted to dark romance, romantasy, contemporary romance, special editions and indie authors.

What it is
Independent bookstore
Street plan around Inked & Bound Books
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The quick read

Your kind of place?

Go if

you read romance in any of its darker or more fantastical varieties, if you follow BookTok into actual rooms, or if you have been thinking about fine line work and would enjoy browsing while you think.

Go elsewhere if

you want general stock, a coffee, a chair, or a shop that works for a family on a rainy afternoon.

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02 / Photographs

Inside the bookshop

A bright shop with black bookcases, trailing plants and low display tables. A customer browses beside the glass storefront.
Inside
Young-adult books on black mesh shelves beneath a YA SECTION sign, with book-themed tumblers on the shelf above.
Staff picks
A single black armchair beside a bookcase and a large window, with a leafy plant behind it and a concrete-block side table.
Somewhere to sit
Black tattoo beds and wall cabinets in a studio, with people at work behind a chrome-framed chair resting on a concrete block.
What makes it itself
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