Romance bookstores
BRICKS-AND-MORTAR BOOKSTORES
ACT
- Astoria Romance & Fantasy Bookstore (Canberra)
New South Wales
- Books Ever After (Bowral) (opening 11 July 2026)
- Books Ever After (Sydney)
- Ever After—The Romance Book Specialist (Wollongong)
- Galaxy Books (Sydney)
- Ink and Ivy Bookstore (Wyong)
- Romancing the Novel (Sydney)
- Spellbound Stories Bookstore (Shellharbour)
- Storybook Romance (Windsor)
- The Enchanted Chapter (Port Macquarie)
- The Forbidden Spine (Emu Plains)
- Unwritten Blends (Sydney)
Queensland
- Arcane Books (Townsville)
- Fables & Froth (Hervey Bay)
- Fiction Over Reality (Brisbane)
- Forever Fables (Sunshine Coast)
- Ivy and Ink bookshop (Gold Coast) (now closed)
- Romancing the Novel (Brisbane) (opening 15 Aug)
- Salti Reads (Sunshine Coast)
- Shelf Lovers (Brisbane)
- Sweet Chapter Books and Cafe (Brisbane)
- Tales & Tomes (Sunshine Coast)
- Tell Me How It Ends (Brisbane)
- The Really Good Bookshop (Brisbane)
South Australia
- Fiction + Friction (Murray Bridge)
- Squirrel and Sparrow Bookstore (Victor Harbour) (now closed)
- The First Chapter (Adelaide)
Victoria
- A Thousand Lives (Yarra Valley)
- The Forbidden Chapter (Melbourne)
- Trilogy of Romance (Melbourne)
Western Australia
- Smut and Spice Bookstore (Perth)
- The Indie Realm (Perth)
- To Be Read Bookshop (Perth) (Mandurah coming soon)
ONLINE ONLY BOOKSTORES
- A Little Love Bookshop
- All Spice Archive
- Bookish & Spice
- Book Besties
- Chapter 55
- Cinder and Ink Books
- Deliciously Wicked Tales
- Enchanted Tales and Ink
- Fated Ink
- Forever After All
- Forever in Fiction
- Heat and Heartstrings
- House of Fiction
- It’s a Love Story Book Shop
- Literary Collectors
- Little Light Bookshop
- NightBloom Bookstore (closing soon)
- Pages ‘N’ Co
- Petrichor & Pages (temporarily closed)
- Pixel + Bound (closed 30 Apr 2026)
- Rosemary’s Romance Books
- Shadow Kissed Books
- Sweeter Than Fiction
- Swoon Bookstore
- Tales & Twine
- The Romance Mafia
- Wicked Darling (second-hand books)
- Wild Hearts Bookshop
- Witchy Books (website down)
[List updated 31 Aug 2026]