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Our Favorite Bookstores in New York City
Where we shop for books in the Big Apple.
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Our writers and editors share some of their favorite bookshops in the city, including where they go to find classic fiction, art and design books, vintage editions, comics and zines, and writing in languages other than English.
Freebird Books
Cobble Hill
A sign in the window of this shop, situated on a quiet stretch of the Brooklyn waterfront, indicates that it is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sundays, and on other days “by chance.” Inside, you’ll find silence, a variety of used fiction and nonfiction titles, and some shelves with novelty themes, including “Bad Titles,” “Unfortunate Author Photos,” and “Great Jackets.” (A recent title on the “Bad Titles” shelf: “ Woods We Live With: A Guide to the Identification of Wood in the Home .”) There are a couple of uncomfortable-looking couches sitting in the shop’s front section, next to the children’s books, as well as a whole bookcase dedicated to books about New York City, and two shelves dedicated to New Yorker magazine writers: Joseph Mitchell; Lillian Ross; A. J. Liebling; James Thurber; Ved Mehta; E. J. Kahn, Jr.; George W. S. Trow, etc. —Eric Lach
West Village
Is it a bookstore or a vibe? Bookmarc, situated in a corner storefront opposite Magnolia Bakery, is both. Opened in 2010, the style-conscious shop is the last vestige of Marc Jacobs’s once-sprawling Bleecker Street retail empire. Its carefully curated selection evokes the retro chic of Andy Warhol and Studio 54. Chunky counterculture art books (Keith Haring, Nan Goldin) abound, alongside paperback collections by fetishized authors (Joan Didion, Truman Capote); hip sixties classics (“ Lunch Poems ,” “ Valley of the Dolls ”); and themed shelves on fashion, food and drink, and the gay underground. (Is that a weathered copy of “ The Butch Manual ,” from 1982? It is.) Customers are greeted by a come-hither portrait of Grace Jones, glaring from the cover of a volume of Warhol Polaroids. The books fight for space with branded Marc Jacobs tchotchkes: pens, tote bags, sparkly key fobs. It’s tempting to scoff at the idea of books as cool-factor design objects, but I always leave wanting to own everything in the joint. —Michael Schulman
Books Are Magic
To both borrow and mangle a tag line: If you love the name Books Are Magic, this bookstore is for you. If you hate the name Books Are Magic, this bookstore is for you. The novelist Emma Straub’s Cobble Hill shop has an excellent selection, a cozy vibe, and a wonderful lineup of live events. (On the events: get there early, because the space fills quickly. Worst-case scenario, there are a bunch of great bars and restaurants nearby where you can wait until things quiet down.) With its brightly colored mural, tongue-in-cheek genre categories, and handwritten recommendations, Books Are Magic will charm those for whom reading is a pastime, an aesthetic, and a life style. And, for those who’d prefer to skip straight to reading their books rather than, say, twirling whimsically with them on the Scottish seaside: Bring your picks to one of the friendly and knowledgeable staff members at the register; you’ll be on your way in no time. —Katy Waldman
Printed Matter
Thrilling, overwhelming, chaotic: even if I spend an hour in Printed Matter, I often feel like I’ve only scratched the surface. It took me a couple of years to realize there was a second floor at their main location in Chelsea. A survivor from a different era of New York, the shop (there are two locations, but make the effort to go to the one in Chelsea) specializes in self-published zines, artists’ books, quirky periodicals, anything involving text on paper. Whether you come across the sole copy of some kid’s photocopied poems or the much-hyped début monograph of an up-and-coming painter, a zine about Jamaican dancehall culture or one about Hong Kong skaters, a book of appropriated anime art or one about communing with the mountains, there’s truly something for everyone, and at price points that range from “just curious” to collector-aficionado. Their mission remains the same as when they started in the mid-seventies: to kindle faith in creative expression, the weirder the better. —Hua Hsu
Desert Island
Williamsburg
At the intersection of the L and the G train lines (I’ve lived on the G for the past fourteen years and lived on the L before that) is Desert Island, a bookshop that is so beautifully designed that it doubles as a work of art. The Williamsburg storefront, once Sparacino’s Bakery, has purveyed comics, graphic novels, artists’ books, prints, and zines on consignment since 2008. There are so many analog treasures stuffed into this place; there is so much loving curation. It begs you to take your time. Linger in front of the latest window installation. Browse the racks of mini-comics. (A recent find: “Suitable for Framing: The Cartoons of Andy Boyd, Volume 1.”) Pick up “Smoke Signal,” the free full-color broadside published by the shop’s owner, Gabe Fowler, showcasing one artist per issue. Dance to whatever record is spinning. I adore Desert Island—its lightness and imagination, its glorious delight in drawings and words. —E. Tammy Kim
Barnes & Noble
Upper West Side
There are all kinds of interesting and welcoming small and smallish bookstores in my neighborhood—from Book Culture on West 112th to the Strand’s uptown outpost and much in between—but I have to give props to, yes, Barnes & Noble on Broadway and Eighty-second: their size, which doesn’t come cheap, insures that they have plenty to offer; they are kind to everyone, kids especially; and the new redesign is elegant and welcoming. —David Remnick
Upper East Side
No matter what country I’m in, I love to go to bookstores that are from a different one, and Albertine, a marvellously curated two-story French bookstore situated in a Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue, is a true gem. Attentive staff, comfy seating, a broad but legible selection of new and classic Francophone literature (in both French and English), and much Proustiana, in a hushed jewel-box-like space. —Elif Batuman
East Village Books
East Village
A friend introduced me to East Village Books about six months after I moved to the neighborhood. I must have walked past the store, which is situated only two blocks from my apartment, on the corner of St. Mark’s Place and First Avenue, a dozen times before I learned about it. Cozy, crumpled, it is not the most conspicuous of bookstores. The bookcases are almost always covered with a thin film of dust, and the shelves do not hide their age. Like the used books it holds, the shop feels like the kind of place you return to time and again not in spite of the stains but because of them. — Jiayang Fan
Three Lives & Company
Three Lives & Company is the Platonic ideal of an independent neighborhood bookstore, a throwback to another time that invites browsing and discovery. You can almost feel the joy and the judgment, the taste and the personality of the people who choose what to stock, what to display, what to recommend. It’s amazing that the store has managed to hold on through decades of West Village gentrification and the influx of designer boutiques around it—and that it still offers coffee and scones at book signings. —Deborah Treisman
Unnameable Books
Prospect Heights
Sometimes I enter a bookstore with a specific purchase in mind, but, when I’m in the mood to explore, to be surprised, to find something I didn’t know I needed, I head to Unnameable Books, in Prospect Heights. A cozy shop where waist-high stacks of new and used volumes teeter amid eclectically stocked shelves, Unnameable has a homey feeling, like browsing your smartest, coolest friend’s personal library; it’s a place that reminds you that every book has a story, and not just the one contained between its covers. Their curation highlights independent publishers and boasts a particularly excellent poetry selection: I’ve left carrying secondhand copies of Anne Carson’s “ Float ,” Diane Wakoski’s “ Greed, Parts 8, 9, 11 ,” Czesław Miłosz’s “ Provinces ” (translated, from the Polish, by Robert Hass), and Nathaniel Mackey’s “ Late Arcade .” Plus, there’s a sweet back-yard space where Unnameable hosts readings—recently, when I visited for the launch of “ I Love Information ,” by Courtney Bush, the house was packed with friends and devotees of literature, who listened, rapt, to poems by Bush and her fellow-readers as the late-summer sun set over Brooklyn. It was a celebration of the written word and of the ways it brings people together: quintessentially Unnameable. —Hannah Aizenman
McNally Jackson
The McNally Jackson bookshop at 52 Prince Street—the original location of a chain that now has several more branches—was an oasis. Nestled on a busy block just east of one of the most heavily touristed sections of lower Broadway, the store offered a ravishingly deep and varied collection of books, a lush alcove of glossy (and decidedly not-glossy) magazines, a café, and a crop of tightly crowded but generously sized tables. It was a godsend for the weary shopper, the bored office worker, or the young woman ready to complain to a friend about an unrequited infatuation. When it closed last year, I mourned, until it was replaced by a new location on the other side of Broadway, ritzier-looking than its predecessor—wood floors ditched in favor of polished concrete; brushed-metal balustrades in favor of black ones—but just as handsomely stocked. Loss and renewal, hand in hand. — Victoria Uren
At the intersection of Bleecker and Bowery, and conveniently adjacent to a Think Coffee, this used bookstore may appear small but is quite substantial in its selection—it stocks titles in multiple languages, including vintage editions of works by fan-favorite New York writers, like Kathy Acker and Allen Ginsberg. I am a regular peruser of the one-dollar book carts outside the shop, where I’ve stumbled across many best-sellers and classics. Inside, the space has just enough room for two rows of wooden shelves, set narrowly apart, which make me feel as if I am, too, being placed on a shelf, cozy between books. This is where a bulk of my library comes from—including a first-edition copy of Rimbaud’s “ Illuminations ” and a signed copy of Natalie Diaz’s “ When My Brother Was an Aztec .” As the name suggests, a visit to Codex immerses me in the physicality of paper. After each customer makes a purchase, the cashier writes down the title in a log with a pencil before handing it over. —Chloe Xiang ♦
An earlier version of this article misstated the number of McNally Jackson branches.
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