Village Lights Bookstore

Village Lights opened in 2008 as a brick-and-mortar shop in Madison, Indiana. For fifteen years, as a full-service general bookstore, we offered a carefully curated selection of used and new books, out-of-print book searches, bookbinding & repair, poetry readings, author events, live music events, a spacious reading room, loads of comfy chairs, and a never-ending cortege of bookstore cats.

In 2024, Village Lights transitioned to a rare, antiquarian, and out-of-print book shop, operating by appointment, and, in 2026, relocated to Nashville, Indiana. We are a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), and the American Booksellers Association (ABA).

If you’re a collector or dealer, we offer a very modest, but growing, eclectic selection, with strength in modern firsts and signed copies. We also sell handmade letterpress books from Larkspur Press, as well as new trade books online through our affiliate account with Bookshop.org. We invite you to peruse our website or make an appointment to visit us in the forested hills of Brown County, Indiana’s “Little Smokies.” And, yes, the cats are still around… somewhere.