The Houston Bookstore Crawl 2025: Mossrose Bookshop

I was delighted to participate in the Second Annual Houston Bookstore Crawl #HTXBookCrawl25 in April. Here is a map I made of the twenty-five indie bookstores in the Houston area.

How it worked: I picked up a crawl card at Then & Now Bookstore in Galveston, one of the 25 participating stores. I got my card stamped or signed by each of the stores I visited through the end of April. Once I visited 10, I submitted my card to any of the participating bookstores to be entered into a raffle for gifts. Every store I hit after the first 10 counts as an additional entry. The cards had to be turned in by the end of business on April 30.

April 26 was Indie Bookstore Day, and indie bookstores all over the US hosted events. Take a look at the map here to see what events were held in April.

Say hello to the Participating Bookstores:

Basket Books & Art · Blue Willow Bookshop · Books Abound · The Book Attic · Books by the Bay · The Book Readers Venue · Brazos Bookstore · Buy the Book · Candescent Books · CLASS Bookstore · Copperfield's Books · Dreamers Books + Culture · Good Books in the Woods · Good on Paper Books and Stationery · Gulf Coast Cosmos Comics · Houston Book Warehouse · Kaboom Books · Katy Budget Books · Kindred Stories · LIT bookbar · LIT Java Coffee & Books · Mossrose Bookshop · Murder by The Book · Then & Now Bookshop · Village Books

I visited twelve bookstores in April. 

Here was my second bookstore:

Mossrose Bookshop is a Latina-owned romance bookshop in Houston. The shop specializes in a variety of romance sub-genres, and it is housed in the old Cameron Ironworks building on the east side of the city. Andrea Sifuentes-Echavarria, the founder of the store, hosted her first pop-up in May of 2024, with only twenty books. Sifuentes-Echavarria began the bookstore when she was unable to find diverse books she wanted to read at other stores. In addition, she tries to include as many Spanish translations of novels as possible. 

Mossrose Bookshop

711 Milby Street #27, Houston, Texas

Inside Ironworks Studios

Open Saturday and Sunday, 10-6

The old Cameron Ironworks building was bustling with customers on the Sunday afternoon of my visit. The building is filled with shops with crafts and delicious foods and drinks. 

It's wonderful to find a cozy bookshop in the building.

It's a small space, but it's filled with books. 

The owner.

What I bought!