Trends · data through September 2026

Bookstores in Idaho

Iceflower tracks 58 stores from 50 bookstore chains in Idaho.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
50
Tracked stores
58
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked bookstore chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Deseret Book and Barnes & Noble sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Deseret Book - +18.7%
2 Barnes & Noble - -5.8%
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Deseret Book
  • Half Price Books
  • BYU-Idaho University Store
  • Captain Comics
  • Idaho State University Bookstore
  • Rediscovered Books
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

58 tracked store locations in Idaho. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 13 of the 58 stores (22%); 47 of the 50 tracked chains have a single store here. 2% of the tracked retail stores here are bookstores, the same share as across the United States.

  • Barnes & Noble (4)
  • Deseret Book (5)
  • Half Price Books (1)
  • BYU-Idaho University Store (1)
  • Captain Comics (1)
  • Idaho State University Bookstore (1)
  • Rediscovered Books (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Deseret Book 5
  • 2 Barnes & Noble 4
  • 3 Bent Corners Used Books 2
  • 4 The Bookshelf 1
  • 5 Once and Future Books 1
  • 6 Adventist Book Center 1
  • 7 Walrus & Carpenter Books 1
  • 8 Kuna's Book Habit 1
  • 9 Bookishly Happy 1
  • 10 Iconoclast Books 1
  • 11 Cooks & Books Co. 1
  • 12 Barn Owl Books 1
  • 13 Books on the Vine 1
  • 14 Worthy Comics 1
  • 15 Chapter One Bookstore 1
  • 16 Hidden Pages 1
  • 17 Lewis-Clark State College Bookstore 1
  • 18 Paperback Bookworm 1
  • 19 Violet Volumes 1
  • 20 Bonners Books 1
  • 21 Literary Paws 1
  • 22 Bookhaven 1
  • 23 Literary Souls Used Books 1
  • 24 The Lit Room 1
  • 25 Bargain Books Boise 1
  • 26 Seagull Book 1
  • 27 Half Price Books 1
  • 28 BYU-Idaho University Store 1
  • 29 Captain Comics 1
  • 30 Idaho State University Bookstore 1
  • 31 Rediscovered Books 1
  • 32 Idaho Book Fairs 1
  • 33 Crone's Cupboard 1
  • 34 The Collectors Outpost 1
  • 35 CWI Bookstore 1
  • 36 Oldspeak Bar 1
  • 37 BookPeople of Moscow 1
  • 38 Kindred & Co 1
  • 39 Inner Circle Comics & Games 1
  • 40 The Well-Read Moose 1
  • 41 Shared Stories 1
  • 42 Sower Bible Bookstore 1
  • 43 Winnie & Mo's Bookshop 1
  • 44 Colossus Girl Memorabilia 1
  • 45 The Rubaiyat LLC 1
  • 46 It's a Love Story | Books & Cafe 1
  • 47 Healing Hands Metaphysical Store 1
  • 48 The Hygge Place 1
  • 49 Canary Books 1
  • 50 Captain Bengal's Comic Cove 1

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