Bookworms, it’s your time to shine. Saturday, April 27, is Independent Bookstore Day, an annual national event that celebrates bookstores as community centers and drivers of local economies.

D.C. is celebrating the fifth anniversary of Independent Bookstore Day with its first-ever bookstore crawl. Ten bookstores in all four quadrants of the city have signed on for the event. Participants can pick up a crawl map at any of the bookstores and use it to qualify for deals on food and drinks at bookstore cafes and restaurants, deals on book purchases and a buy-one-get-one-free deal at Peregrine Coffee.

Visitors to all 10 bookstores win an Independent Bookstore Day tote bag. (Book lovers and public radio listeners are clearly cut from the same cloth.)

The crawl comes at a time when D.C.’s independent bookstore landscape is experiencing a “bookstore renaissance,” according to Anna Thorn, the crawl’s coordinator. “We’re an extremely literate city, and we were due for more stores,” she said. “And we got a whole slew of them, which is fantastic.”

Amazon dealt a blow to the brick-and-mortar bookstore industries, and indie shops across the country struggled in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. But Thorn says she’s witnessed a promising resurgence in D.C. over the past six years. New stores like Mahogany Books in Anacostia have opened up. Longstanding businesses have expanded: Busboys And Poets opened up a location in Anacostia and Politics & Prose opened a store in Union Market and another at the Wharf.

She’s also excited by the younger bookstore owners who are revamping their businesses in creative ways. Potter’s House in Adams Morgan recently came under new management, and Upshur Street Books in Petworth has been made over into Loyalty Books. Idle Times in Adams Morgan is also about to undergo a rebranding.

“They’re really savvy,” Thorn said. “They’re expanding what a bookstore is and can do.”

Here’s a map of D.C. bookstores participating in the crawl:

This story originally appeared on WAMU.