Book shopping in New England
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Everyone’s Books
Sells unusual publications, rabble-rousing political literature and an audacious selection of radical T-shirts and bumper stickers.
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Calamus Bookstore
Calamus (aka Kalamos) – son of the Greek river god Maiandros – was transformed with grief into a reed when his lover drowned. The character (and the namesake plant) inspired Walt Whitman’s Calamus Poems, which celebrates gay love. And now, he has inspired Boston’s biggest and best GLBT bookstore. With a full calendar of author talks and art exhibitions, as well as a regular electronic newsletter, Calamus is not only a bookstore but also a community center.
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Mcintyre & Moore Booksellers
McIntyre & Moore is one of Boston's best and biggest used bookstores, with over 85,000 titles in 200 subject areas. Subject matter ranges from scholarly to New Age to fiction, with an excellent selection of children's books and even cookbooks. The well-organized place is great for browsing. Also home of the Davis Sq Philosophy Cafe, which meets here monthly (from 19:30 to 21:30, every third Tuesday).
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Grolier Poetry Bookshop
Founded in 1927, Grolier is the oldest – and perhaps the most famous – poetry bookstore in the USA. Through the years, TS Eliot, ee cummings, Marianne Moore and Allen Ginsberg all passed through these doors. Today, Grolier continues to foster young poets and poetry readers. Besides selling written and spoken poetry, the store hosts readings and festivals.
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Trident Booksellers & Café
Pick out a pile of books and retreat to a quiet corner of the café to decide which ones you really want to buy. You’ll come away enriched, as Trident’s stock tends toward New Age titles. But there’s a little bit of everything here, as the ‘hippie turned back-to-the-lander, turned Buddhist, turned entrepreneur’ owners know how to keep their customers happy.
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Brattle Book Shop
Since 1825, the Brattle Book Shop has been catering to Boston’s literati: it is a treasure trove crammed with out-of-print, rare and 1st-edition books. Ken Gloss – whose family has owned this gem since 1949 – is an expert on antiquarian books, moonlighting as a consultant and appraiser (see him on the Antiques Roadshow!).
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Central China Book Co
Tucked into a basement in the heart of Chinatown, this little bookstore carries fiction, reference and children’s books, as well as CDs and DVDs. The impressive inventory (over 100,000 titles) comprises almost exclusively Chinese-language products.
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Brattleboro Books
One of a trove of bookstores in Brattleboro offering a long list of store-sponsored readings and events. This is a used-book junkie’s dream, with endless aisles containing more than 75,000 used, out-of-print and even new titles.
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Northshire Bookstore
An enormous independent bookstore with comfy nooks everywhere. It shares a huge hangout space with the attached java-and-munchies joint, Spiral Café, which offers wireless internet access and two computers with free usage.
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Bank Square Books
This bookstore keeps a good stock of local-interest titles, plus the usual suspects. (Note the carving in the shape of a whale on the sidewalk just outside the store.)
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Collected Works Bookstore & Café Beyond
Here you can browse Zen titles, women’s literature and art books, then snuggle into the comfy chairs. Hanging out in its fantastic café is always a prime activity.
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Map Center
If you want more maps than the visitor’s center can provide (some local, some esoteric) as well as a small selection of guidebooks, try this center.
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Bear Pond Books
Browse the vast offerings of books about Vermont and by Vermonters, as well as those on just about any other subject you’d care to contemplate.
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Yankee Bookshop
Great for local guidebooks, maps, and books in general. It’s particularly strong in works by local authors and publishers.
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Toad Hall Bookstore
Socially responsible reading: buy your books here and the shop donates some of its income to environmental projects.
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Yale Bookstore
Barnes & Noble not only sells a rich collection of books, but also Yale sweatshirts and souvenirs.
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Diane’s Books
Diane’s Books boasts the largest selection of family books in the country.
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Water St Books
This is the Williams College bookstore, with a friendly staff that know both books and the area.
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Gulliver’s
A large selection of maps and travel guidebooks, including an excellent section on New England.
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Gallows Hill Bookstore
You’ll find well-stocked shelves at this bookstore on the campus of Trinity College.
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Barnes & Noble Yale Bookstore
Not only sells a rich collection of books, but also Yale sweatshirts and souvenirs.
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Coop
Regional books, music and all sorts of souvenirs emblazoned with the Harvard logo.
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