/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12331027]

>ITT: Post the best bookstore in your city

[Anonymous No.12331032]

Nice try dataminer

[Anonymous No.12331052]

kramerbooks is the worst, most globohomo disgusting bookstore. it has a fucking brunch restaurant in it. second story three hundred feet away is better

[Anonymous No.12331058]

>>12331027
I'm not telling you, you weirdos would ruin it.

[Anonymous No.12331072]

The Strand desu

[Anonymous No.12331203]

>>12331052
Did Kramerbooks fuck your girl or something lmao

[Anonymous No.12331220]

>>12331203
i walk by it everyday and do not like the people that use it to buy books

[Anonymous No.12331607]

>>12331027
Right now I'm living in Tokyo. Bookoff is the best place to buy second hand books, Kinokuniya for brand new books (if they are cheaper than Amazon), but the best bookstore is Kitazawa Bookstore. The atmosphere is greeat, they have all kind of old books and it's a beautiful store.

[Anonymous No.12331614]

>>12331607
hows the lit scene in tokyo?

[Anonymous No.12331629]

>>12331027
That’s a fine lookin store Anon, I’m jealous

[Anonymous No.12331633]

>>12331607
>Kinokuniya
Pretty fucking jelly desu, there's a few in the states but none near me.

[Anonymous No.12331669]

>>12331072
Arguably America's best bookstore

[Anonymous No.12331681]

>>12331614
Western books aren't popular at all, besides from Harry Potter. A lot of people can't tell the difference between The Lord of the Rings and The Odyssey.
People read a lot, I see it every day on trains and buses, but they always, always read japanese books and "how to" books are very popular.
Right now I'm in Nagoya, with my girlfriend's parents. They have a bookshelf full of those books, I think the only fiction among those is a Dragon Quest book.

[Anonymous No.12331694]

>>12331220
Dc meetup when

[Anonymous No.12331704]

>>12331681
What about western philosophy? Is it too impractical for the japanese mind?

[Anonymous No.12331723]

>>12331681
going to be in japan soon for a trip. shoot me an email at alessandra dot guppee at gmail dot com (not a girl, just a throwaway email i use) if youhave any interest in grabbing a beer/discussing lit

[Anonymous No.12331729]

A cozy bookshop called barnes and noble

[Anonymous No.12331769]

>>12331723
I will definitely violate your tight boipucci while my gf watches.

[Anonymous No.12331786]

>>12331072
I much prefer East Village Books.

[Anonymous No.12331788]

>>12331704
Highly unlikely... I'm not into philosophy, but I've read some books. Sometimes I recommend them but it's like recommending a shonen manga to my grandmother.
As far as I know they almost exclusively read japanese books in school and it's difficult to find western books (in japanese) in Bookoff. They don't really have a wide selection.

[Anonymous No.12331828]

>>12331788
I never liked japanese in their hyper workoholism. There is no point in life. I would rather be homeless philosopher than to do that.

[Anonymous No.12331841]

>>12331769
look forward to hearing from you

[Anonymous No.12331852]

>>12331694
When did you move to DC? There were a couple a year or so ago that I think I just missed

[Anonymous No.12331965]

Topos Bookstore (best curation)
Book Thug Nation (pretty sure curator browses /lit)
Molasses (very comfy bookstore cafe/bar open
late)

all used selections of course

[Anonymous No.12331981]

>providence, ri
>symposium books

[Anonymous No.12331986]

>>12331786
East Village Books is one of the best smaller used shops in the city but for pure volume and prices I gotta go with the Strand

[Anonymous No.12331994]

thrift stores are where its at, as evidenced by my blessed day today

[Anonymous No.12332013]

>>12331694
When you all stop being plebs

Joking aside Kramerbooks is ok but I like second story

[Anonymous No.12332021]

I go here a couple times a month, really comfy

[Anonymous No.12332036]

[Anonymous No.12332440]

>>12331027
The Strand
All of the high School kids and smelly old people go to the Barnes and noble on union but the qt sjw grills and big gorilla dick niggas go to strand

[Anonymous No.12332463]

Probably the flagship Half Price Books

[Anonymous No.12332517]

>>12331607
>Kinokuniya
Visited the ones in Sydney and Kuala Lumpur and they're so nice

In Melbourne I wouldn't say there's an outstanding number of good bookshops, Readings is always top notch though and probably has the widest selection as far as I can tell + music and film, etc. I feel like their philosophy section is also the most dependable I've seen in the country.
Pic related is just a comfy store I like looking in, not as much selection, but it's usually all quality.

[Anonymous No.12332522]

>>12332517
Forgot to mention Readings is open until 11pm on some nights, which is certainly unique for a store around here

[Anonymous No.12332544]

>>12332440
remember the anon who was making a philosopher fighter game?

[Anonymous No.12332558]

>>12331203
based

[Anonymous No.12332583]

>>12331681
what is your job in japan?

[Anonymous No.12332594]

This baby's been in the neighborhood almost 80 years. It's going to close next year though, because as usual a New York based REIT intent on turning Los Angeles into the 6th borough bought the building and is going to jack the rent so only Prada or whatever can afford it

[Anonymous No.12332628]

Kind of hard to find shit but comfy atmosphere and a good selection

[Anonymous No.12332645]

>>12332594
This was previously the best bookstore in Los Angeles, until the exact same thing happened. The shop owner's personal collection formed the foundation of the books for sale, and you could tell he didn't like parting with them.

[Anonymous No.12332653]

>>12332628
There's a place like that near me. I think it used to be a hardware store or a warehouse. Loosely sorted into fiction and non-fiction but that's about it.

[Anonymous No.12332693]

>been around since the mid 18th century
much better stuff than the hegemonic commercial bookstore here, Easons
also Joyce mentions it in a book somewhere

[Anonymous No.12332734]

Any NYC-lit bois here that have a suggestion for a good book store? Ive always bought books online but I wouldn't mind a nice store to go to.

[Anonymous No.12332763]

>>12332734
two have been named itt bitch
McNally Jackson in Soho is good for new books

[Anonymous No.12332764]

>he doesnt just use libgen and an ereader
i bet you save your physical books too and have some nominal reason you tell yourself to avoid recognition of your own vanity. sometimes i bet you even have a daydream where your urbanite friends are over for a drink and someone bends over (martini in hand) and says, "anon! i didn't know you read baudrillard, you're a much more interesting person than you seem!"

[Anonymous No.12332777]

>>12332763
thanks homie. Ill check that one out.

also i should probably read the rest of the thread

[Anonymous No.12332789]

>>12332734

These are all in Brooklyn >>12331965

[Anonymous No.12332923]

>>12331027
There's only two bookstores in St Louis City: Left Bank books and Dunaway.

[Anonymous No.12332967]

Are there any nice places in Salem and/or Boston? Some kind anon recc'd a few last time I asked.

[Anonymous No.12333012]

>>12332967
Why should I tell you now if you just forgot the last time i told you? ungrateful bitch.

[Anonymous No.12333020]

>>12333012
I didn't forgot, I even wrote them down.

[Anonymous No.12333194]

>>12331786
Same, Strand has become obnoxiously political and East Village Books has killer prices.

[Anonymous No.12333202]

Any Chicago niggas in this thread?

[Anonymous No.12333221]

amazon

[Anonymous No.12333670]

>>12332764
this

[Anonymous No.12333703]

>>12332628
Name of store please?

[Anonymous No.12333706]

>>12332628
is that macleods?

[Anonymous No.12333729]

>>12331027

This one has a second location a street over in a dingy basement with rare and old books, it's fuckin dank

[Anonymous No.12333760]

>TFW the only bookstores in my immediate area are chain stores that only sells cheap romance,chrome and books by youtubers. Oh and don't forger about the ONE shelf of classics.

[Anonymous No.12333770]

>>12332967
I like the Harvard Book Store (not to be confused with the Coop), The Brattle Book Shop in Downtown Crossing and The Book Rack in Arlington.

[Anonymous No.12333819]

>>12333729
thats the one baby

except fuck the no bag policy

[Anonymous No.12333839]

>>12331994
That's such a good book

[Anonymous No.12333847]

>>12332517
>>12332522
You ever been to City Basement Books? its a pretty amazing second hand store just near flinders

[Anonymous No.12333877]

>>12332583
Clean guest houses. I can space out, read or play videogames if I'm free. It's not bad because I'm earning a bit less than the average salaryman and I don't have to work extra hours, and if I do I get paid.

[Anonymous No.12333893]

>>12333770
Muchas gracias anon.

[Anonymous No.12333928]

Either >>12332693 or chapters. Ulysses rare books is alright and there's an independent shop called books upstairs with good selection but all in paperback only.

[Anonymous No.12333949]

>>12331027

[Anonymous No.12333983]

>>12332021
That's where I bought my Great Books collection. Next time you're downtown go check out C&M books, next to Julio's hair-salon. The lady who owns it super nice.

Keep warm.

[Anonymous No.12333994]

fuck mom and pop bookstores as they're mostly owned by leftists and homos.

[Anonymous No.12333998]

>>12331027
Is that fucking Alvin Plantinga?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nDOxLh6AbQ&fbclid=IwAR2QAE2dmy1NKgZXccfqWwRMrN4FXAhUZM5cpo-5iytCPh9i-BykH5cTJK8

[Anonymous No.12334002]

>>12333998
how did I get a link that long?

[Anonymous No.12334049]

>>12333983
>Keep warm
how do you keep your balls from freezing off?
walkings good, fightings better, readings best

[Anonymous No.12334055]

>>12334049
uhh, cuddling?

[Anonymous No.12334064]

I just found out I can use my local universities library for free. Its clean, massive, utterly silent, comfortable seating. One could literally become a scholar here without paying a dime. I dont know why they allow it but Im so grateful they do.

[Anonymous No.12334335]

>>12333994
This

[Anonymous No.12334778]

>>12333847
I've been in there a bunch of times and it never did much for me unfortunately :(

[Anonymous No.12334793]

>>12331681
>Right now I'm in Nagoya, with my girlfriend's parents.

[Anonymous No.12334794]

>>12331027
joke's on you faggot there are no bookstores near me lmao

[Anonymous No.12334806]

>>12331788

But do they read Japanese classics or Japanese YA or the equivalent of that ?

Have you found /Lit/ nips?

[Anonymous No.12334991]

Living in one of the top 10 biggest cities in Sweden and we've got trash book stores, have to order every book I want online, the only used book store I've found in my town only has detective novels. Feels very sad man

[Anonymous No.12335067]

>>12333202
whats up

[Anonymous No.12335073]

Gould Books (Sydney, AU) is pretty neat

[Anonymous No.12335095]

>>12331027
OP posts an overpriced bar and brunch place that happens to sell NEW ONLY books between awkward author talks and heroin breaks for the staff in the fastest gentrified roundabout in a decayed American shithole of a city—where the only bookstore of any relevance is Politics & Prose and has been for years.

Please tip your lobbying cock to this palace of $4 pristine first editions of actual classic authors in a REAL USED BOOKSTORE (pic related) in a city that still has a soul. Or are you too busy browsing the new Carmen Machado at Kramers?

[Anonymous No.12335098]

>>12331027
unity for retail and jasons or hard to find for second hand

[Anonymous No.12335130]

Shout out to DC people from across the river in Alexandria. Book Bank is comfy, good (but smallish) selection, and the lady who runs it is really sweet.

[Anonymous No.12335700]

>>12335095
>where the only bookstore of any relevance is Politics & Prose and has been for years

Whew, laddie. OP here. Kramerbooks is irrefutably the best book store in dc, or as I like to call it, Little Sodom. That’s not to say it’s my favorite one, though. That accolade goes to Capitol Hill Books.

[Anonymous No.12335716]

>>12331072
I love the strand

[Anonymous No.12335731]

>>12333949
i live a minute from this one, never been in though

[Anonymous No.12335836]

>>12331203
kek based

[Anonymous No.12335888]

You can see it in the back. It's the only one we have.

[Anonymous No.12335957]

>>12332628
I’ve seen this place before in a dream.

[Anonymous No.12335960]

O X F A M B O O K S H O P

[Anonymous No.12335985]

>>12331607
>mfw no Kinokuniya in 6000 km radius

[Anonymous No.12336013]

>>12331052
>globohomo

really made me think.

[Anonymous No.12336119]

>>12335095
Anyone else go to the last book store? If you're in LA I also recommend other books in East LA and stories in echo park

[Anonymous No.12336170]

In Albany, NY.

[Anonymous No.12336368]

Oslo

>New
Bislet Bok
Eldorado Bokhandel

>Used
Fretex Alnabru
Majorstuen Antikvariat
Ruuds Antikvariat
Frogner Antikvariat

[Anonymous No.12336391]

>>12336368
oslo is so depressing

[Anonymous No.12336425]

>>12336391
Oslo is only depressing if you are.

[Anonymous No.12336445]

>>12331027
There are none.

[Anonymous No.12336511]

Not the best, but the most impressive looking.

[Anonymous No.12336527]

>>12333703
>>12333706
MacLeods in Vancouver

[Anonymous No.12337026]

>>12336511
Obscene

[Anonymous No.12337029]

>>12335095
getting TB from a hobo downtown doesn't count as a soul lmao imagine thinking LA has a soul

[Anonymous No.12337063]

Any of you fags know of a good bookstore in Miami, or even better, Doral?

[Anonymous No.12337088]

>>12331027
don't know. don't care. I download them for free

[Anonymous No.12337101]

>>12337026
why?

[Anonymous No.12337115]

>>12337026
I like to read at the cross

[Anonymous No.12337117]

>>12333729
Man I miss that place, I went a couple of times while I was in Victoria and I really wished I went more as I have nothing like that in my city.

[Anonymous No.12337177]

>>12331052
>second story three hundred feet away is better
agree

[Anonymous No.12337377]

>>12332544
What about him?

[Anonymous No.12337408]

>>12331965
Book Thug Nation is god tier. $5 Dostoevskys and Joyces on the front table when you walk in. I got a copy of My Belief by Hermann Hesse there for like $8, which is a super rare book that costs $100+ in decent condition used.

>>12331072
Strand is solid, basically the same as B&N though

[Anonymous No.12337510]

None. They're dying anyway. I just buy the books directly from the publisher's own shop, or from the various second-hand sources (used book shops, local version of craigslist (without gay sex), or flea markets).

[Anonymous No.12338095]

>>12333983
>Next time you're downtown go check out C&M books, next to Julio's hair-salon.
Thanks senpai. I fucking hate going downtown but if I do sometime soon I'll check it out.

[Anonymous No.12338115]

>>12337101
Probably because it mixes the older architecture with modern bookshelves and they clash.

[Anonymous No.12338130]

>>12332628

[Anonymous No.12338145]

>>12338130
>the best bookstore is literally within a book
dude...

[Anonymous No.12338183]

>>12335073
They closed and moved to the other end of King st, new store is much smaller, which is a shame, but it's still pretty good. Sappho books in glebe is the best in Sydney now imo, but I'm still keeping an eye out for a better one

[Anonymous No.12338427]

>>12334778
I went to Readings today, wow you must drink a lot of lattes if oyu like that kind of place

[Anonymous No.12338956]

[Anonymous No.12339070]

>Not having a bookshop like this near you

[Anonymous No.12339085]

>>12331072
absolutely brainwashed tier, The Strand is a good bookstore to show people, but for regular shopping it's garbage
McNally Jackson is far superior

[Anonymous No.12339170]

and uptown

not that any of you fuckers live in jacksonville

[Anonymous No.12339193]

It shut down.

[Anonymous No.12339198]

>>12331052
>>12337177
That place was neat, it's shame I'm not in DC anymore.

[Anonymous No.12339203]

>>12338183
Gould's moved? That's a shame. Yeah Sappho is comfy. I love leafing through their selection of sheet music even though I can barely read it nowadays. Abbey's bookshop in the CBD has a pretty decent selection although I does mean going into the CBD which usually makes me want to gouge my eyes out.

[Anonymous No.12339623]

>>12339203
Sydney is lucky in that the two major CBD stores, Abbeys and Kinokuniya are both pretty good. Definitely would like more second hand places around - I know there are a few in Surry Hills and Paddington but I can't stand either of those places so I have never really checked it out.

[Anonymous No.12339680]

The Bent Cover in Phoenix was my favorite, but it's been gone about a decade or so now.

[Anonymous No.12339723]

Mckay's used books in Nashville, Tennessee

[Anonymous No.12339757]

>>12333760
Do you live near me?

[Anonymous No.12339955]

Outside of booksamillion, there's Taylor Books. Comfy, has a lil art gallery, cinema in the basement, and a cafe, in addition to both new and used books

t. Charleston, WV resident

[Yeet Yeet No.12339974]

>>12331027

This place in Pittsburgh is actually God tier

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Caliban+Book+Shop/@40.4449462,-79.9487416,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipNxK8zLR8PDD6lnxVqVJLrvp6U2r0mBaULvSt_s!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNxK8zLR8PDD6lnxVqVJLrvp6U2r0mBaULvSt_s%3Dw236-h100-k-no!7i6890!8i2918!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x8834f16f48068503:0x8df915a15aa21b34!2sPittsburgh,+PA!3b1!8m2!3d40.4406248!4d-79.9958864!3m4!1s0x8834f2242084232f:0x21a2806436cbe30f!8m2!3d40.4448982!4d-79.9488945

[Anonymous No.12341078]

>>12331027
I just realized San Francisco has no cozy book store...

[Anonymous No.12341589]

>>12333994

kek based

[Anonymous No.12341591]

>>12331027
I genuinely don't think I have any other bookstore aside from a placed called C books or Circle books or something. It's a small used store with a huge section of romance novels (at least compared to everything else.)

[Anonymous No.12341611]

>>12333847
Not the guy you replied to but both City Basement Books and Syber's (both sites) are my jam

[Anonymous No.12341642]

>>12339170

Decent place.

[Anonymous No.12341683]

Black books

[Anonymous No.12341925]

>>12331681
>besides from Harry Potter
For fuck sake

[Anonymous No.12341938]

>>12333994
Pretty sure that goes for all bookstores in my country - Australia. Can never find anything I want unless it's really well known classics but the editions and translations are always shit.

[Anonymous No.12341944]

>>12334991
>have to order every book I want online
This but in Straya. It's fucking ridiculous as well since it's cheaper to ship from overseas across the world than buy from here.

[Anonymous No.12341977]

>>12332693
>Tfw Easons is the only bookshop in my town.
Hold me, Dublinanon.