AU Records

Really great store full of wonderful stuff, but unwelcoming staff that treat you like your potentially stealing from them. Would be a 10/10 store if it they had more welcoming and staff acted more friendly and less sus of everyone. (Visiting from out of area, while on buisness)

This is an absolutely wonderful bookstore and coffee shop. They also sell records. The very tall and beautiful lady behind the counter was super friendly and helpful. She rang up a couple books for me today and we had a very pleasant conversation. I highly recommend this place.

It’s a great local bookstore! Huge selection of fiction and non fiction, as well as comics. They have board/card games and vinyl records too. It’s fun to thumb through their old cheap second hand records, you can find some gems every now and again. Their staff is friendly, but they are very progressive by Tri-Cities standards, so keep that in mind! I have seen someone lectured/chewed out by the staff for using language they didn’t appreciate. Their prices are in line with a local business. You’ll pay a small premium but I think it’s worth it. The attached coffee shop is a very fun spot to hang out.

I stopped by on a whim on the way to get food, and was very glad I did! It looked like a cool local bookstore from the outside, and those are always worth checking out while traveling, but it turns out there's also a full-fledged Friendly Local Gaming Store inside, with all the RPGs, miniature games, board games, and models that come with it, and the comic selection is much closer to a full comics specialty store than a typical bookstore. There's also a records room and an attached cafe/bar. Everything is clean, tidy, and well-lit inside. The staff is great, they checked in to see if I needed anything once, and were present around the store the whole time, no hiding in the back or ignoring customers. I can't remember who rang me up, but he was great! He chatted with me a bit, and gave me some local restaurant recommendations as well. I bought a couple of paperback books, and both were priced right where I'd expect from a local bookstore, a new copy of a book first published in 2013 was $15, and a used Joseph Heller novel in great condition was $10. I'm absolutely coming back next time I'm in town. It's definitely worth a visit.

Really cool place with a great variety of things (books, records, hobby things). My biggest issue was the smell, I didn't look around too long because it stinks in there. Ended up buying one book :) fun vibe in the heart of tri cities