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Destination bookstores

19th century engraving of a book shopHas it come to this? Is it left to USAToday/Associated Press to be the guardian of our literary culture?

Beth J. Harpaz, AP Travel Editor, has selected nine bookstores that she considers “worth a tourist’s time” because each is “more than just a place to buy books.” The nine bookstores are:

  1. BOOKS & BOOKS: 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables
  2. CITY LIGHTS BOOKS: 261 Columbus Ave., San Francisco
  3. ELLIOTT BAY BOOK CO.: 101 S. Main St., Seattle
  4. POLITICS AND PROSE: 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington
  5. POWELL’S CITY OF BOOKS: 1005 W. Burnside, Portland
  6. PRAIRIE LIGHTS: 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City
  7. TATTERED COVER BOOK STORE: 1628 16th St., Denver
  8. THAT BOOKSTORE IN BLYTHEVILLE: 316 W. Main, Blytheville (Arkansas)
  9. THE STRAND: Corner of 12th Street and Broadway, near Union Square, Manhattan

What do you think of this list? I would add Moe’s in Berkeley to it, for one.

LINK: Nine destination bookstores worth putting on a tourist’s itinerary (USAToday). IMAGE modified from this source

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Posted: January 17th, 2008 under bookstores.
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Comment from Nancy
Time: January 17, 2008, 10:47 am

I would add “Moe’s” as well but with the comment that you have to wade through a lot of very aggressive panhandlers to get to it and that many of the so-called rare books are not rare and are extremely over priced. Black Oak Books would be a destination for their gorgeous signs and beautifully designed space but the prices - oi vey!

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