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American Book Center
Recently moved, this excellent five-storey store is the biggest source of English-language books in Amsterdam. Its greatest strengths are in the artsy ground-floor department, but upstairs there's fiction and oodles of special-interest titles, plus a good travel-guidebook section. It also stocks foreign periodicals (eg the New York Times ).
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Antiquariaat Kok
A wide and engaging range of used and antiquarian stock (literature, coffee-table books, old prints etc) is sold here, including biology, art and architecture titles.
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Athenaeum Bookshop & Newsagency
This enormous bookstore lures in academics, journalists and students. Athenaeum's strengths are its history, language, classics and psychology titles. The separate news agency has the city's largest selection of international newspapers and magazines.
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Au Bout du Monde
This store makes a nice change from the seamier pursuits on offer in Amsterdam. From angels to Zen, this tranquil two-storey shop stocks books on Eastern and Western philosophy, Tibet, Freud, alternative medicine and pretty much anything else you'll need for your religious, psychological or spiritual needs.
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Book Exchange
Near the University, this rabbit warren features four rooms of secondhand books, with temptingly priced occult, sci-fi and detective novels, many of them in English.
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English Bookshop
This attractive, canalside shop has a well-chosen selection of English-language biographies, novels and translations of the works of Dutch writers.
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Fotographia
An unusual name for a bookstore, yet it works. After all, this classy new shop is as simple as a photo lab. It is stocked full of publications featuring various famed artists, including the likes of Alfred Stieglitz, Charlotte Dumas, Rineke Dijkstra and Magritte.
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Intermale
One of Amsterdam's leading gay bookstores, Intermale has 1½ floors of photo books, sexy mags, videos and pornographic cards.
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Nijhof & Lee
Design fans will want to head here for a swell selection of international architecture, art and typography books, and posters in an intimate but contemporary setting. It's all the ultimate in academic cool - especially their limited graphic prints. One wall boasts a substantial selection of well-priced remainders.
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Pied À Terre
The galleried, skylit interior of this classy travel-book shop feels like a Renaissance centre of learning. It specialises in pretty much any book you'll need for outdoor pursuits: hiking and cycling books, topographical maps and travel guidebooks.
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Selexyz Scheltema
The largest bookshop in town is a true department store with many foreign titles, and New Age and multimedia sections. It can be dizzying. Readings and book launches take place next to the upstairs cafė
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Stadsboekwinkel
Run by the city printer, this is the best source for books about Amsterdam's history, urban development, ecology and politics. Most titles are in Dutch (but you can always look at the pictures) - you'll also find some in English. It's in the City Archives building.
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Vrolijk
Said to be the Netherlands' largest gay and lesbian bookstore, Vrolijk carries most of the world's major gay and lesbian magazines, as well as novels, guidebooks and postcards. The selection is truly extensive. Climb the stairs for art, travel, poetry and DVDs/videos.
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Waterstone's
This British chain of bookstores has an extensive range. Four storeys and a central location, near Spui Square, make this store a great resource for English-language books (which are often discounted). There's an emphasis on travel guidebooks, magazines, newspapers and novels.
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