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To everyone helping get this list started: Please take a look at the formatting I've started and when giving me stores to add try to format it similarly: The name and address, a link if it's available (easier if you post it in plaintext) and any distinguishing features that might be worth noting to someone who hasn't been there. The extra info isn't essential, but I think it's good to know if it's a used book store, a discount store, a specialty store, etc.
Below is a list of bookstores recommended by community members. Click on the appropriate state and you'll be taken to a listing of bookstores we love located in that state. Check out this post before travelling and find the best bookstores that area has to offer.
California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Washington
California
Book Soup
8818 W. Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
(310) 659-3110
Chaucer's Books
Loreto Place
3321 State St.
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
(805) 682-6787
Colorado
The Book Broker
119 E Bijou St
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Absolutely enormous store, and all throughout this summer they are having a "dot sale", in which 75% of their fiction inventory has a dot sticker stuck on the spine, and all of the dots are half off. If you also go to www.thebookbroker.net, you can search their online inventory, which is really just a way to order books online for cheap, many of them without having to pay shipping.
Florida
Chamblin BookMine
4551 Roosevelt Blvd
Jacksonville, FL 32210 USA
Phone 904-384-1685
Massachusetts
Back Pages Books
368 Moody St.
Waltham, MA
(781)788-9988
Independent book store owned by two friendly & knowledgeable Brandeis University grads. Great selection of new and used books. Specializing in fiction, poetry, local authors, children's lit.
New England Mobile Bookfair
82-84 Needham St
Newton Highlands, MA 02161
(617)527-5817
Huge selection of cheap used and new books
Bearly Read Books
320 Boston Post Rd.
Sudbury, MA
(978)443-4034
Used books: history, scifi, fantasy, mysteries, classics, children's lit., leather bound sets, cookbooks, gardening, etc.
The Book Rack
13 Medford St.
Arlington, MA
(781)646-2665
National franchise selling both used and new books
Michigan
John K. King Used & Rare Books
901 W. Lafayette Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 961-0622
New York
Strand Book Store
828 Broadway(at 12th St.)
New York, NY. 10003-4805
212-473-1452
The Book Outlet
908 Niagara Falls Boulevard
North Tonawanda, NY
This is a book warehouse with 75% off of all books. Some remainder marks and damaged covers, but an amazing place where you're guaranteed to find something worth buying
The Book Corner
1801 Main Street
Niagara Falls, NY
A three story bookstore with an attic full of used fiction, a basement full of used non-fiction, and a main floor with a diverse selection of new books.
Oregon
Powell's City of Books
1005 W Burnside
Portland, OR 97209 USA
Vermont
Rivendell
awaiting more info
The Crow
awaiting more info
Washington
If the Seattle recommendations below aren't enough, try browsing the Seattle Used Bookstore Guide.
Twice Sold Tales
905 E John St
Seattle, WA 98102
From ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) joiefilled: There are multiple cats living in the store, and they are fed by a little donation jar that sits by the counter. The people who work there are pretty cool, the owner rocks - she once gave me some free books just because I took the time to have a conversation with her about Dorothy Parker and Edna St. Vincent Millay - and I've found some stuff there I couldn't find anywhere else.The Elliott Bay Book Company
101 South Main Street
Seattle, Washington 98104
(206) 624-6600
1-800-962-5311 Ravenna Third Place Books
6504 20th Ave. NE
Seattle, WA 98115
(206)-525-2347
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| mananath |
| 2006-07-24 02:54 (UTC) |
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I definetly second the inclusion of Powell's. When I was there last year I spent about 5 hours wandering the stacks and still don't feel like cracked half the store. There were literally entire floors that I had to skip over. It's a fabulous bookstore. I feel bad for the big box stores (my company included) that have to compete with it in Portland!
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Okay, I have a few to add. I hope it's okay to mention that here.
First off, in Colorado Springs where I live now, the Book Broker. Absolutely enormous store, and all throughout this summer they are having a "dot sale", in which 75% of their fiction inventory has a dot sticker stuck on the spine, and all of the dots are half off. If you also go to www.thebookbroker.net, you can search their online inventory, which is really just a way to order books online for cheap, many of them without having to pay shipping;
The Book Broker
119 E Bijou St
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
There is also a store I frequented in Seattle - Twice Sold Tales is the name, there are several locations in Seattle but I visited the one on Capitol Hill the most. Their thing is, there are multiple cats living in the store, and they are fed by a little donation jar that sits by the counter. The people who work there are pretty cool, the owner rocks - she once gave me some free books just because I took the time to have a conversation with her about Dorothy Parker and Edna St. Vincent Millay - and I've found some stuff there I couldn't find anywhere else.
Twice Sold Tales
905 E John St
Seattle, WA 98102
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I'll get you some more info when I get a break at work. In the meantime, do you think we should include the states on the actual page? Because when you link in to one state, it shows the entire post without cuts, and it could get confusing if there's no state.
This is awesome, thanks for doing this!
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| xterminal |
| 2006-07-24 14:05 (UTC) |
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There seems to be a problem with the Colorado Springs link.
I will attempt to come up with a few good ones from OH, PA, NJ, and ME, but it's been so long since I've been to most of them I'm not sure they still exist...
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I can't figure out what the deal is with that. It's not actually a link, but some text changes color when you mouse-over it. Perhaps it's something weird with the journal layout because when I view it in my own journal style it doesn't do it.
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In New York City, there is Strands
Strand Book Store is located at the corner of 12th Street and Broadway.
Hours
Monday-Saturday 9:30 AM-10:30 PM
Rare Book Room Closes Daily at 6:20 PM
Sunday 11:00 AM-10:30 PM
Take the N R Q W 4 5 6 or L train to Union Square. Walk two blocks South to 12th street.
828 Broadway
(at 12th St.)
New York, NY. 10003-4805
212-473-1452
212-473-2591 fax
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| lagizma |
| 2006-07-24 23:32 (UTC) |
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I just want to let you know that I hate you all because none of you told me about all the cool bookstores in San Francisco, and I visited and returned empty handed, only to learn about all the book stores. The fact that none of you knew I was going to San Francisco is not necessarily an excuse.
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Back Pages Books
368 Moody St.
Waltham, MA
(781)788-9988
http://www.backpagesbooks.com
Independent book store owned by two friendly & knowledgeable Brandeis University grads. Great selection of new and used books. Specializing in fiction, poetry, local authors, children's lit.
New England Mobile Bookfair
82-84 Needham St
Newton Highlands, MA 02161
(617)527-5817
http://www.nebookfair.com/
Huge selection of cheap used and new books
Bearly Read Books
320 Boston Post Rd.
Sudbury, MA
(978)443-4034
http://www.bearlyreadbooks.com
Used books: history, scifi, fantasy, mysteries, classics, children's lit., leather bound sets, cookbooks, gardening, etc.
The Book Rack
13 Medford St.
Arlington, MA
(781)646-2665
http://www.book-rack.com
National franchise selling both used and new books
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