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PLACES TO VISIT


The Southeast

  • Charis Books (Atlanta, GA)

  • Blytheville Book Company (Blytheville, AR)

  • Square Books (Oxford, MS)

  • Sundog Books (Seaside, FL)

  • Avid Bookshop (Athens, GA)

  • Blue Bicycle Books (Charleston, SC)

  • Atlanta Fulton Public Library (Atlanta, GA)

  • Faulkner House of Books (New Orleans, LA)

  • Rowan Oak Museum: Faulkner’s Bedroom (Oxford, MS)

  • Flannery O’Connor: Childhood Home (Savannah, GA)

  • Hotel Monteleone: Hemingway & Faulkner’s home away from home (New Orleans, LA)

  • Monroe County Old Courthouse Museum (Monroeville, AL)

  • Margaret Mitchell House (Atalnta, GA)

  • Roebling Point Books & Coffee (Covington, KY)

  • Books&Books (Miami, FL)

  • Alabama Booksmith (Homewood, AL)

  • Dickson St. Bookshop (Fayetteville, AR)

  • Main Street Books (Davidson, NC)

  • Landmark Booksellers (Franklin, TN)

  • Parnassus Books (Nashville, TN)

  • Burke’s Book Store (Memphis, TN)


The Northeast

  • Politics and Prose (Washington DC)

  • Strand Bookstore (New York City, NY)

  • Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library @ Yale University (New Haven, CT)

  • An Unlikely Story (Plainville, MA)

  • McNally Jackson (New York City, NY)

  • Stephen A. Schwarzman Building - The New York Public Library (New York City, NY)

  • Second Story Books (Washington DC)

  • Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY)

  • Greedy Reads (Baltimore, MD)

  • Little City Books (Hoboken, NJ)

  • Boston Central Library (Boston, MA)

  • The Fisher Fine Arts Library (Philadelphia, PA)

  • Library of Congress (Washington DC)

  • Phillips Exeter Academy Library (Exeter, NH)

  • George Peabody Library (Baltimore, MD)

  • The Sawyer Library (Williamstown, MA)

  • The Montague Bookmill (Amherst, MA)

  • Kramerbooks & Afterwords (Washington DC)

  • Baldwin’s Book Barn (West Chester, PA)

  • RJ Julia Booksellers (Madison, CT)

  • Northshire Bookstore (Manchester Center, VT)

  • Emily Dickinson Museum (Amherst, MA)

  • Mark Twain House and Museum (Hartford, CT)

  • Edgar Allen Poe National Historic Site (Philadelphia, PA)

  • Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington DC)

  • Louisa May Alcott’s House (Concord, MA)

  • Argosy Bookstore; Old and Rare Books (New York City, NY)

  • Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY)

  • Imperial Fine Books (New York City, NY)

  • Lizzy Young Bookseller (Brooklyn, NY)

  • Book Row (New York City, NY)

  • Old Niagara Bookshop (Ontario, Canada)

  • Spoonbill Books (Brooklyn, NY) 

  • Labyrinth Books (Princeton, NJ) 

  • Capitol Hill Books (Washington DC) 

  • Little City Books (Hoboken, NJ)

  • Rabelais (Biddeford, ME)

  • Chop Suey (Richmond, VA)

  • Longfellow Books (Portland, ME)

  • Trident Booksellers (Boston, MA)

  • Gibson’s Bookstore (Concord, NH)

  • Montclair Book Center (Montclair, NJ)

  • Farley’s Bookshop (New Hope, PA)

  • Cellar Stories (Providence, RI)

  • Northshire Bookstore (Manchester Center, VT)

  • Taylor Books (Charleston, WV)


The Midwest

  • Left Bank Books (Saint Louis, MO)

  • Smith & Hannon Bookstore (Cincinnati, OH)

  • Birchbark Books & Native Arts (Minneapolis, MN)

  • Bookends and Beginnings (Evanston, IL)

  • BookPeople (Austin, TX)

  • Women and Children First (Chicago, IL)

  • Rediscovered Books (Boise, ID)

  • Anderson’s Bookshop (Naperville, IL)

  • Hyde Brothers (Fort wayne, IN)

  • The Haunted Bookshop (Iowa City, IA)

  • Rainy Day Books (Kansas City, KS)

  • John K. King Used and Rare Books (Detroit, MI)

  • Wild Rumpus (Minneapolis, MN)

  • Indigo Bridge Books (Lincoln, NE)

  • Loganberry Books (Cleveland, OH)

  • Gypysnark Books (Stillwater, OK)

  • Dotters Books (Eau Clair, WI)


The West

  • Explore Booksellers (Aspen, CO)

  • Omnivore Books (San Francisco, CA)

  • Antigone Books (Tucson, AZ)

  • Powell’s Books (Portland, OR)

  • City Lights (San Francisco, CA)

  • Country Bookshelf (Bozeman, MT)

  • The Last Bookstore (Los Angeles, CA)

  • Tattered Cover (Denver, CO)

  • Elliott Bay Book Company (Seattle, WA)

  • Mrs. Dalloway’s Literacy & Garden Arts Bookstore (Berkeley, CA)

  • Title Wave Books (Anchorage, AK)

  • Changing Hands Bookstore (Phoenix/Tempa, AZ)

  • Green Apple Books (San Francisco, CA)

  • Talk Story (Hanapepe, Kauai, HI)

  • Sundance Books and Music (Reno, NE)

  • Zandbroz Variety (Fargo, ND)

  • Bloomsbury Books (Ashland, OR)

  • Mitzi’s Books (Rapid City, SD)

  • The King’s English (Salt Lake City, UT)

  • Sidekicks Bookbar (Rock Springs, WY)


Europe

  • Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris, France)

  • Lutyens and Ruenstien (London, England)

  • Hurlingham Books (London, England)

  • The Bookshop on the Heath (London, England)

  • Pages of Hackney (London, England)

  • Goldsboro Books (London, England)

  • Heywood Hill (London, England)

  • London Review Bookshop (London, England)

  • Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers (London, England)

  • Word on the Water (London, England)

  • Libreria (London, England)

  • Persephone Books (London, England)

  • John Sandoe Books (London, England)

  • Hatchards (London, England)

  • Foster Books (London, England)

  • Daunt Books (London, England)

  • Galignani (Paris, France)

  • Shakespeare and Company (Paris, France) + Cafe

  • Abbey Bookshop (Paris, France)

  • Taschen (Paris, France)

  • San Francisco Book Company (Paris, France)

  • Librairie du Marais (Paris, France)

  • Ler Devagar (Lisbon, Portugal)

  • Libreria Acqua Alta (Venice, Italy)

  • Selexyz Dominican Church (Maastricht, The Netherlands)

  • Librairie Jousseaume (Paris, France)

  • Booth Books (London, England)

  • Mainz, Germany (site of printing press’s invention)

  • Bath, England (for Jane Austen)

  • The Fable Bar (London, England)

  • Hay-on-Wye, Wales (small village = library)

  • Café Pushkin (Moscow, Russia)

  • Georgian House Wizard Chambers (London, England)

  • Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)

  • Strahov Monastery (Prague, Czech Republic)


South America

  • The Royal Cabinet of Reading (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

  • El Ateneo Grand Splendid (Buenos Aires, Argentina)


Asia

  • Book and Bed (Tokyo, Japan)

  • Zhongshuge Yangzhou (Yangzhou Shi, China)

  • The Library Hotel (Koh Samui, Thailand)

  • Alice in Magical Land (Tokyo, Japan)

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