Grab your bookish best friends: The Indy Indie Book Crawl is coming back for year two, March 20-23. 

The crawl will feature 29 bookstores in Central Indiana, eight literary organizations and a book crawl bingo sheet. You can do activities at the different locations for the chance to win prizes. The event will all start with a kickoff party on March 19. 

Just like last year, you can participate by grabbing an official bookmark from any of the locations and stamping each bookstore off as you go. 

This year’s list of bookstores will be announced soon. Before the list is released, you can learn how Tomorrow Bookstore founder Jake Budler started the crawl and begin planning your route with our guide to the 23 stores featured last year. 

Follow @indyindiebookcrawl on Instagram for updates. The crawl is sponsored by Indiana Humanities, Butler University’s MFA program, Maywright Property Group, Café Lending and Bottleworks Hotel.

Mirror Indy reporter Sophie Young covers services and resources. Contact her at sophie.young@mirrorindy.org.

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<h1>The Indy Indie Book Crawl returns March 20</h1> <p class="byline">by Sophie Young, Mirror Indy <br />January 28, 2025</p> <p>Grab your bookish best friends: The Indy Indie Book Crawl is coming back for year two, March 20-23.&nbsp;</p> <p>The crawl will feature 29 bookstores in Central Indiana, eight literary organizations and a book crawl bingo sheet. You can do activities at the different locations for the chance to win prizes. The event will all start with a kickoff party on March 19.&nbsp;</p> <p>Just like last year, you can participate by grabbing an official bookmark from any of the locations and stamping each bookstore off as you go.&nbsp;</p> <p>This year’s list of bookstores will be announced soon. Before the list is released, you can learn how Tomorrow Bookstore founder Jake Budler started the crawl and begin planning your route with <a href="https://mirrorindy.org/indianapolis-independent-bookstore-crawl/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">our guide to the 23 stores featured last year</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>Follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/indyindiebookcrawl" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@indyindiebookcrawl on Instagram</a> for updates. The crawl is sponsored by Indiana Humanities, Butler University's MFA program, Maywright Property Group, Café Lending and Bottleworks Hotel.</p> <p><em>Mirror Indy reporter Sophie Young covers services and resources. Contact her at <a href="mailto:sophie.young@mirrorindy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sophie.young@mirrorindy.org</a></em>.</p> <div class="wp-block-group has-light-gray-background-color has-background" style="padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)"> </div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://mirrorindy.org/indy-indie-book-crawl-returns-march-20-23/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://mirrorindy.org&quot;&gt;Mirror Indy&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cropped-Mirror-Indy-square-logo-1.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://mirrorindy.org/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=44592&amp;amp;ga4=G-X0R0QW371R&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://mirrorindy.org/indy-indie-book-crawl-returns-march-20-23/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/mirrorindy.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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