Browser Books is a general-interest bookstore at 2195 Fillmore St, at Sacramento, and one of the last independently owned bookshops in San Francisco. It has been on Fillmore Street since 1976: an old-fashioned bookshop in the best sense, with carefully chosen titles, a friendly atmosphere and room to browse.
A neighborhood bookstore with a long memory
Browser Books opened in 1976. Stephen Damon started as assistant manager in 1978 and became the owner in 1981, running the shop for nearly four decades. The store moved a block south to its current home at 2195 Fillmore in 1989. When Damon faced debt and medical bills, neighbors raised roughly $75,000 through a 2017 fundraising campaign to keep it going.
Part of the Green Apple family
In 2019, the owners of Green Apple Books, the Richmond District independent, took over Browser Books, effective October 1. They kept the Browser name, and the shop on Fillmore Street remains its own neighborhood bookstore, now backed by another longtime San Francisco bookseller.
What’s on the shelves
New books in nearly all subject areas, and a comprehensive selection of fiction and literature, both classic and contemporary. You will also find children’s books, biography and memoir, cooking, mysteries and science fiction. Call 415-567-8027 to ask whether a title is in stock.
