Trends · data through July 2026

Bookstores in Tennessee

Iceflower tracks 66 stores from 38 bookstores chains in Tennessee. McKay Used Books grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million.

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
38
Tracked stores
66
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked bookstores 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. McKay Used Books and Barnes & Noble sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M McKay Used Books logo McKay Used Books ▲1 +7.2%
2 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble - +4.9%
3 B Books-A-Million logo Books-A-Million ▼1 -8.3%
  • Barnes & Noble
  • McKay Used Books
  • Books-A-Million
  • Parnassus Books
  • Moon Pie General Store
  • Cedar Springs Christian Stores
  • Tiger Bookstore
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

66 tracked store locations in Tennessee. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Barnes & Noble (11)
  • McKay Used Books (4)
  • Books-A-Million (14)
  • Parnassus Books (1)
  • Moon Pie General Store (1)
  • Cedar Springs Christian Stores (1)
  • Tiger Bookstore (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 B Books-A-Million logo Books-A-Million 14
  • 2 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble 11
  • 3 M McKay Used Books logo McKay Used Books 4
  • 4 R Rick's Comic City 2
  • 5 C Christian Publishers Outlet 2
  • 6 P Parnassus Books 1
  • 7 M Mardel Christian & Education logo Mardel Christian & Education 1
  • 8 G Game Knight logo Game Knight 1
  • 9 T The Golden Age 1942 1
  • 10 S St Mary's Bookstore 1
  • 11 O Outer Limits Comics 1
  • 12 A Alkebu-Lan Images 1
  • 13 C Comics Exchange 1
  • 14 S Snake Eyes Comics 1
  • 15 T The Book & Cover 1
  • 16 N Novelette Booksellers 1
  • 17 P Pellissippi State CC Bookstore 1
  • 18 W White Pine Books 1
  • 19 D Duck River Books 1
  • 20 T The Happy Book Stack 1
  • 21 S Southwest Tennessee Community College Bookstore 1
  • 22 T The Daily Times 1
  • 23 M Moon Pie General Store 1
  • 24 C Cedar Springs Christian Stores 1
  • 25 T Tiger Bookstore 1
  • 26 A Ann Ross Bookstore 1
  • 27 N Novel 1
  • 28 P Phillips Bookstore 1
  • 29 U Union Avenue Books 1
  • 30 M Miranda's of Clarksville 1
  • 31 2 2nd & Charles logo 2nd & Charles 1
  • 32 S Southland Books 1
  • 33 N Nirvana Comics 1
  • 34 T The Bookshop 1
  • 35 H Half Price Books logo Half Price Books 1
  • 36 E Epikos Comics & Games 1
  • 37 A Adventist Book Center 1
  • 38 E ETSU Bookstore 1

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