Chicago, Illinois
Quimby's Bookstore
The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.
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Chicago, Illinois
The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.
Bardon, Australia
This rickety old shed hides a trove of secondhand literary treasures.
Urueña, Spain
This charming, medieval walled village is Spain's first "book town."
Wigtown, Scotland
This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.
Quartzsite, Arizona
The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.
Nanjing, China
With former lives as a bomb shelter and government parking lot, this shop is one of China’s most extraordinary locales for book-lovers.
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
A beautiful little bookshop located in the middle of a desert.
Provins, France
An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.
Oxford, England
Once one of the largest rooms full of books in the world, this bookstore basement is still a treat for bibliophiles.
London, England
Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.
Jacksonville, Florida
A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.
Tokyo, Japan
A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.
Wonthaggi, Australia
Leaning shelves and books galore, this location is a book lover's utopia.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.
West Chester, Pennsylvania
This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.
Bucharest, Romania
This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.
Hobart, New York
This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.
London, England
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
São Paulo, Brazil
The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.
Benson, Arizona
Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.
Alnwick, England
This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.