Amazon can deliver a book to your door in hours. But it can’t replicate the experience of discovering a book you didn’t know you needed on a shelf curated by someone who loves literature. These bookstores are worth the pilgrimage.
- Shakespeare and Company, Paris — The legend. Go for the history, stay for the reading room upstairs.
- Strand Book Store, New York — 18 miles of books. The rare book room on the third floor is a museum disguised as a shop.
- Daunt Books, London — An Edwardian temple to travel writing, with books arranged by country. The oak galleries will stop your breath.
- Ler Devagar, Lisbon — A former printing factory turned into a literary wonderland. The flying bicycle sculpture alone is worth the visit.
- City Lights, San Francisco — The birthplace of the Beat generation. Still independently owned, still fiercely political, still magic.
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