Green Apple Books & Music

Green Apple Books & Music is an independent bookstore in the Richmond District of San Francisco, California.

History
Green Apple Books was founded by Richard Savoy in 1967 in a pre-1906 building that it shared with a shoe repair business at the corner of Clement Street and Sixth Avenue. In time, it expanded its original space to include a mezzanine and a second floor. In 1996, Green Apple Books further expanded both its size and its inventory when it acquired its long time neighbor, Revolver Records. Green Apple's addition of its Annex in the Revolver Records space brought it from its original size of 750 square feet to 7,500 square feet. The western half of Green Apple Books & Music now houses an eclectic assortment of new and used fiction, music, magazines, and performing arts books, the eastern half new releases, a large history, cooking, children's, eastern religion, and poetry sections, as well as their general new and used non-fiction. The store houses over 250,000 titles, as well as 60,000 available online.

After 30 years Richard Savoy set up a ten year buy-out for Green Apple Books & Music with three long-time employees, selling the store to Pete Mulvihill, Kevin Hunsanger, and Kevin Ryan who had 38 combined years as Green Apple employees.

Green Apple Books & Music is perennially voted best Used Bookstore and Best Independent Bookstore in the Bay Area by readers of the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the SF Weekly. In 2001 Green Apple was again voted Best Independent Bookstore in the Bay Area, this time by San Francisco Chronicle readers.

Green Apple Books & Music is a member of the American Booksellers Association and Book Sense.