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New York, New York

Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

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New Orleans, Louisiana

Kitchen Witch Cookbooks

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

Teamwork and speed.

The Competitive Book Sorters Who Spread Knowledge Around New York

Inside an annual contest of brains, brawn, and library logistics.

Matthew Taub November 14, 2018

New York, New York

Joanne Hendricks Cookbooks

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

objects of intrigue

A Close-Up Look at the Most Influential Medical Book of the 16th Century

Andreas Vesalius dissected the bodies of executed prisoners to better understand human anatomy.

Lizzie Philip November 9, 2018

The original "Poetree."

Edinburgh, Scotland

Edinburgh Book Sculptures

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

Parain's <em>Baba-Yaga</em> was influenced by avant garde art and traditional folk tales.

The Soviet Children's Books That Broke the Rules of Propaganda

How folk tales and traditional life snuck into avant-garde kids' books in the 1930s.

Sarah Laskow November 1, 2018

Dracula might not have really drawn blood, but his creator, Bram Stroker, drew in library books.

Bram Stoker Wrote in His Library Books

The London Library combed through its shelves to track down his marginalia.

Jessica Leigh Hester October 31, 2018

Mount Hope Cemetery

Mount Hope Cemetery

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

The Orchard House.

Concord, Massachusetts

Orchard House

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

The stacks of the London Library.

London, England

The London Library

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

How do you tsundoku?

How Does Your Tsundoku Stack Up?

Atlas Obscura readers share their personal piles of unread books.

Eric Grundhauser October 24, 2018

Video • Object of Intrigue

The Most Influential Medical Book of the 16th Century

Map by Roland Chambers for <em>The Magicians</em>,
by Lev Grossman.

How Writers Map Their Imaginary Worlds

A new book collects fantastic literary geographies.

Sarah Laskow October 22, 2018

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Bardon, Australia

Logical Unsanity Books & Miscellaneous Phantasmagoria

This rickety old shed hides a trove of secondhand literary treasures.

What books are waiting in your tsundoku pile?

Show Us Your Tsundoku!

We want to see your shameful stacks of unread books.

Eric Grundhauser October 16, 2018

Barter Books.

Alnwick, England

Barter Books

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

Historical markers at Willa Cather Memorial Prairie.

Red Cloud, Nebraska

Willa Cather Prairie

Over 600 acres of idyllic open grassland honor Nebraska’s georgic storyteller.