World's Bookstores Destinations
JAMES JOYCE USED TO FREQUENT THE LEGENDARY SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY LEFT BANK BOOKSTORE DURING HIS PARIS YEARS. IT IS STILL A DESTINATION IN ITS OWN RIGHT, WITH A FLAVOUR AND SMELL OF ITS OWN, A COMPLETELY UNIQUE PLACE. THERE IS A DEFINITIVE "THE" BOOKSTORE IN EACH CITY AND PROBABLY FOR EACH OF US. THIS IS WRITER PAULS BANKOVSKIS' CHOICE.
Globe Bookstore and Café, PragueOgi, MoscowTattered Cover, ColoradoCity Lights, San FranciscoFoyles, LondonTattered Cover, Colorado
n the 1980s, when I lived in Denver and the 1971-founded Tattered Cover bookstore was still housed in its original premises...Booked Up, Texas
The architecture is the traditional functional brown brick 'boxes' of cheap American shopping centres...Livraria Lello, Porto
Definitely one of the world's most beautiful bookstores, worth a visit even if reading is not an essential part of your life...Hedengrens, Stockholm
Set next door to one of Stockholm's most elegant shopping centre yet dating back to a much earlier date, the Hedengrens Bookstore...Ogi, Moscow
To enter this outlet of the OGI syndicate of booksellers/ "wide-profile establishments", one has to overcome certain difficulties of the orienteering kind: walk...Marga Schoeller Bücherstube, Berlin
The founder and - begging your pardon - soul of the bookstore Marga Schoeller has become a legend of Berlin, of Berlin bookshops and bookshops in general. Unless...City Lights, San Francisco
The 'flagship' of alternative culture, closely linked with the 1950s Beat Generation and the radicals of the 1960s - originally the first American bookshop...London Review Bookshop, London
While the bookshop dates back only to 2003, today it is one of the best of its kind in the Bloomsbury area, so rich in literary connections...Globe Bookstore and Café, Prague
Opened in 1993, the Globe Bookstore/Cafe is a real old-timer of the post-socialist space. A favourite hang-out spot among ex-pats...The English Bookshop, Amsterdam
I have no idea if there are many tourists who go to Amsterdam looking for bookshops, but, should anyone...Foyles, London
This bookstore, the full name of which is W & G Foyle Ltd, was founded in 1903 by brothers William and Gilbert Foyle...The Strand Bookstore, New York City
This Greenwich Village family-owned bookstore, founded on 16 August 1949, is exactly what its name suggests...ABOUT US • CONTACTS • RSS • FOLLOW US:
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