About Us

Little District Books is a queer-owned and operated Washington, DC based independent book store that celebrates LGBTQ+ authors and stories. 

We are located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood in Southeast Washington, DC. We are a proud part of a neighborhood that has been a haven for the queer community over the last 50+ years. 

Store Information

Our store is located in Capitol Hill at: 

631 Pennsylvania Ave. SE
Washington, DC 20003

The store phone number is: (202) 629-2975

Hours:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 11 am - 7 pm 
Wednesday: 11 am - 7 pm 
Thursday: 11 am - 7 pm 
Friday: 11 am - 7 pm 
Saturday: 10 am - 6 pm 
Sunday: 11 am - 6 pm

Accessibility: 
Our Pennsylvania Avenue location does have step free access into the main room from the street. The store does have a split floor layout where part of the store is only accessible by ascending three steps. We do have a publicly accessible restroom, but it is not ADA compliant. 

Settler Accountability:
Although a land acknowledgement is but a starting point, Little District Books nevertheless wants to mark that our store occupies land first inhabited and tended to by the Nacotchtank whose territories were unceded then forcibly taken by the colony of Maryland. Washington, DC as a whole sits on the land of the Piscataway into whose confederacy the Nacotchtank were absorbed. Enduring brutal settler violence, the Piscataway migrated away from what is now the DC-Maryland-Virginia area and their lands were occupied by the United States. Despite the broader settler project, many Indigenous peoples and their descendants continued and still continue to live on these lands. We hold that queer liberation is incomplete without recognizing the fullness and abundance of Indigenous life (especially of queer Indigenous peoples) and that our collective liberation depends on land back. Find queer Indigenous reads here!

Other Important Things!
We currently do not have a public restroom during shopping hours. Well-trained dogs are welcome in our store! Sometimes our shop dog is present.