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Favorite Bookstores
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Courtney
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Jan 10, 2008 09:40AM

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My favorite store, though, is St Mark's Books on 3rd in Manhattan. There's enough space to move around, they almost always have everything you want and while they probably have Dean Koontz and Danielle Steel, they only put good, interesting and well-written obscure books on display so it's easy to find something new and good to read.

West Coast, my favorite in Wahrenbock's in downtown San Diego, where I always find new books on the shelves.
East Coast, it's either Second Story Books in Washington DC near Georgetown or the Book Barn of the Finger Lakes in Dryden near Ithaca, NY.
Too many great bookstores in this country to choose from! My favorite in the LA area is Brand Bookstore in Glendale.

I did always like Kramer books when I was living in DuPont in DC, though it gets more points for comfort and style than it does for selection and price.



Going to have to check out the Book Barn one of these days...
A couple of my faves are located in downtown Milwaukee, WI: Downtown Books and Renaissance Books. Both huge, rambling multi-story affairs in old 19th-century buildings, full of not-terribly-well-sorted used books and magazines of all kinds. Prices vary at both places from great to rather overpriced, but I've definitely found plenty of things I don't find everywhere, and they are must-visits for fans of the old, musty, floorboards-creaking cat-urine-smelling types of places.