Daedalus Books is a used bookstore based in the Downtown Mall of Charlottesville, Virginia.
[3] Charlottesville's Downtown Mall is a destination for visiting bookstores including Daedalus.
[5][6] Reviewers describe the store as cozy,[8][9] a place to get lost,[10] bewildering,[7] and a three-story temple of secondhand literature.
[4] The name of the store refers to Daedalus because the bookshelves create a Labyrinth in which people become lost.
[3][2] Author Rita Mae Brown said that Daedalus and McAdams delighted her.
[7] McAdams also started a restaurant near the bookstore, and is credited with developing Charlottesville's Downtown Mall as a place for food and browsing books.