Alabaster Bookshop (122 4th Ave) Secondhand books; located near Strand Books

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Albertine Books in French and English (972 5th Ave)

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*Argosy (59th St near Park Ave) Old, rare and used books; prints

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Barnes and Noble Union Square (33 E 17th) The BEST Barnes and Noble in the country! Beautiful building landmarked in 1986.

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Berl's Poetry Shop [temporarily closed] (141 Front St, DUMBO) Another great find from my daughter. This shop is full of books of poetry mainly from small presses. Sadly it has very erratic hours. I find it closed more often than open.

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Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks (28 E Second bet Bowery and 2nd Ave) Cute little shop packed with vintage cookbooks

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Bookoff (49 W 45th) Used books and video games

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Casa Magazines (22 8th Ave) Every magazine you can imagine

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Center for Fiction (15 Lafayette, Brooklyn) My favorite bookstore for adding to my TBR

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Chartwell Booksellers (55 E 52nd St; hidden inside Park Avenue Plaza) Small bookshop that sells mainly books by and about Winston Churchill 

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The Corner Bookstore (1313 Madison) 

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Community Books (143 7th Ave, Brooklyn) 

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Juilliard Bookstore (144 W 66th St) Enjoy browsing the music selection with my piano-playing buddies here and love to take home Juilliard sweatshirts.

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​*Kinokuniya (1073 6th Ave) Love this Japanese bookshop with English language best sellers on the main floor, Japanese manga on the second and journaling and scrapbooking supplies on the lower floor.

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*Kitchen Arts and Letters (1435 Lexington bet 93th and 94th) Bookstore of cookbooks and food related books

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*McNally Jackson (134 Prince St)

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*The Mysterious Bookshop (58 Warren St in TriBeCa) Only mysteries!

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New York Library Society (53 E 79th) This was such a cool private library! We were given a tour when we got there. Loved seeing all the little nooks for studying, reading, and writing. 

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New York Public Libary (476 5th Ave) Newly renovated (and large) gift shop that's full of books and gifts for the reader.

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*Printed Matter (231 11th Ave) and a smaller one located at 38 St Marks Place. I am into zines and zine making right now so this zine shop on 11th Ave was a great find.

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Powerhouse Books (28 Adams St in Brooklyn) DUMBO neighborhood 

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The Ripped Bodice (218 5th Ave, Brooklyn) Dedicated entirely to the romance genre

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*Rizzoli Bookstore (Broadway bet 25th and 26th) Beautiful shop; we shopped here in the 80's when this store was located on W 57th Street; same bookstore, different location

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*Strand Books (12th and Broadway) My all time favorite bookstore in the world! I could spend the entire day in here.

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Terrace Books (242 Prospect Park W, Brooklyn) Brooklyn's oldest operating bookstore; since 1971

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Three Lives and Co (Waverly at 10th St) Great little indie bookshop

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Westside Rare and Used Books (Broadway bet 80th and 81st) Love the stairs in this shop laden with books

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On My NYC List to do

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Yu and Me Bookshop (44 Mulberry St)

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My Favorite Books Set in NYC

I love reading about NYC if I can't visit.  I will read almost any book set in the city.  Here are a few of my favorites.

   

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall

The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis and any of her NYC historical fiction

A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner

The Force by Don Winslow

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Index of Self-Destructive Acts by Christopher Beha

I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir by Keith McNally

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

The Nix by Nathan Hill

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

Playworld  by Adam Ross

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Severance by Ling Ma

St Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of American's Hippest Street by Ada Calhoun

Trust by Hernan Diaz

What's So Funny? A Cartoonist's Memoir by David Sipress

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