/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.652105]

Post bookstores in your country
Livraria Cultura, São Paulo, Brazil.

[Anonymous No.652117]

looks like an all-you-can-rape buffet

[Anonymous No.652149]

It seems pretty like that and all, but I bet most books are in Portuguese.

[Anonymous No.652177]

Every book I ever saw was written in English. Brazil speaks spanish. How can you even read a book in Brazil?

[Anonymous No.652210]

>>652177
>Brazil speaks spanish
lolno

[Anonymous No.652739]

Brazillian publishers suck so much that books in english (imported) are cheaper than most books in portuguese. That's why i always go for books in english from used bookstores. I can get the same book for less than half of the price (including shipping) i would pay in a normal bookstore (without shipping).

[Anonymous No.652764]

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.652796]

London: Bookmongers

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.652799]

London: Books For Cooks

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.652803]

London: Daunt Books

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.652805]

London: Foyles, St Pancras

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.652813]

London: Koenig Books

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.652817]

London: Magma

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.652826]

London: Stanfords

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.652838]

London: West End Lane Books

and those are my favourite bookstores from this fair city.

[Anonymous No.652848]

El Ateneo, Buenos Aires.

[Anonymous No.652857]

Chicago: Seminary Co-op

[Anonymous No.652862]

>>652796
nice postings Croaker, didn't realise you were from the UK

[Anonymous No.652874]

Waterstones, Bradford, UK

[Anonymous No.652880]

Bookman Bookwoman, Nashville

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.652894]

>>652862

That I am! And it's always nice to share good book related stuff.

>>652874

See, didn't realise Waterstones could have such a nice store as this.

[Anonymous No.652922]

>>652880

An interior shot. Has a great fantasy/sci fi section.

[Anonymous No.652924]

Croaker, your postings make me want to visit London just for the bookstores.

[Anonymous No.652931]

Raven Used Books: Cambridge, MA

[Anonymous No.652932]

Portland, OR: Powell's. Largest Independent bookstore in the world.

[Anonymous No.652939]

>>652894
Yeh it's built in the old Wool Exchange, worth a visit if you're there.

[Anonymous No.652945]

We have no independent bookstores in this town. Makes me sad.

[Anonymous No.652966]

El ateneo, buenos aires, argentina

[Anonymous No.652971]

>>652932
I've wanted to go there for years, but I can't find an excuse to go to fucking Portland.

[Anonymous No.652975]

>>652932
I've been there. Was in Portland for work stuff, and that was the top of my list of things to do there. It was awesome.

[Anonymous No.652976]

>>652971
Portland is magnificent, just go there.

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.652988]

>>652939

I will if I'm ever up there. Some Waterstones have a pretty poor range these days but that would be worth a visit just for the location.

>>652924

Londo has some pretty good bookstores and there are a few more I keep meaning to visit.

It's a shame though: a lot of independents in the heart of the city have closed over the last couple of years. A tonne on Charing Cross Road have closed (which was famous for all the bookstores) and there was a really nice Oriental bookstore near the British Musuem which has sadly closed too.

[Anonymous No.652983]

>>652976
It's a 50 hour drive, and I'm sure as fuck not going through that alone just to look at books.

[Anonymous No.653036]

>>652105
I have seen quite a bit of fellow Brazilians here, I am glad.

I will even avoid the usual "huhsuhsuahu BR?" 'cause I am clearly not addressing the usual Brazilian retard.

Amo a Cultura, cara. Mas a organização dos livros lá é uma porcaria, difícil achar um autor ou título especifico.

[Anonymous No.653068]

>>652966
I love it how there's always someone playing classical right there on that mini-stage.
It's a superb book-store.

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.653218]

Gonna bump this for more nice bookstores.

I forgot about Marchpane, in London's Cecil Court, near Leicester Square; probably because it's so expensive (I've only ever bought one book from there). But its collection of antiquarian childrens books is lovely and unsurpassed.

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.653222]

And yes, for some reason there's always a Dalek inside (but how awesome!).

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.653231]

And one more post for Cecil Count in general, which is filled with many nice, small bookstores, even if I don't visit them.

[Anonymous No.653240]

>>652966
oh, you beat me to it. It was the only one worth posting I could think of.

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.653727]

Another one: the second-hand book market on the Southbank, under Waterloo Bridge, next to the NFT.

[Orhan !3VNuRGq.ek No.653860]

Nice posts Croaker - will check out some of these places next time I'm in London which is soon.

[Anonymous No.653867]

>>653727
I can tell jsut how huge a dork that guy is just from looking at the back of his head, wow

[Anonymous No.653897]

Detroit representin' in here!

All kidding aside, this place is amazing. Used book for about a buck US, and four stories worth of em.

[Anonymous No.653903]

>>653897

...And I forgot the photo. Fuck me.

[Anonymous No.653917]

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[Anonymous No.653926]

<---Best bookstore in Perth, Western Australia

[OP No.653941]

Recycled Books in Denton, TX. 17,000 square feet of awesome. This is just a tiny part.

[Anonymous No.653944]

Recycled Books in Denton, TX. 17,000 square feet of awesome. This is just a tiny part.

[Anonymous No.653948]

brazilians know how to read? Lol


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[Anonymous No.653985]

>>653944

God-damn the last remaining place in the world with shag carpeting.

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.654014]

Others I've forgotten, here, the London Review Bookstore. All history, politics, literary fiction and a very nice cafe too!

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.654029]

"Any Amount of Books" - one of the few surviving second-hand bookstores on Charing Cross Road.

Charity shops are cheaper but the range here is much better.

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.654037]

Heywood Hill Ltd - TBH, it's a bit stuffy here but it IS a very nice shop / location

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.654055]

And lastly, the nicely sprawling Blackgull bookshop in Camden.

Of the other independent bookstores in London... nice as some of them look, I just haven't visited them yet.

[Anonymous No.654077]

>>654055
This one is truly awesome. Spent lots of money in there. Was surprised at how many literary/drama theory books they had. Also, I like it because I bought one of my favorite novels in there--Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton. Check it out.

[Anonymous No.654306]

>>654055
at a hotel near Tower Bridge next week - which are the closest shops? or which 2 or 3 would you go to?

[Anonymous No.654403]

The Eslite in Taichung. The one in Taipei is absolutely massive.

[Anonymous No.654428]

World's Biggest Bookstore, Toronto, Canada

[Anonymous No.654430]

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[Anonymous No.654459]

>>654428

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[Anonymous No.654511]

>>654306

If I'm not too late....

Depends what you're after really. You can get pretty specific shops here. There aren't any great bookshops in the immediate vicinity of Tower Bridge though.

Go to Charing Cross Road, in the West End for starters. It's not what it once was but it has the main Foyles branch, which is spread over several floors and probably has the best range in the city; there's Blackwells too, which has all the usual sections but is very good on non-fiction (philosophy, etc); there's a couple of 2nd hand stores still around, such as Any Amount; and there's a couple of art bookstores still there as well, like Koenig books.

Just off of Cambridge Circus / Shaftsbury Avenue (which is halfway up CCR) you've got Magma, which is great for arts / design books and fashion magazines. And about 1/4 of the way up CCR is Cecil Court with lots of nice specialist stores (might not have anything you want but they're nice shops).

After that... well, fives mins from the Tottenham Court Road end of CCR you have two other possible stores - the London Review Bookstore (see posts above) is one way, near the British Museum. There's also a very good Oxfam charity bookshop just off of Great Russell Street near the British Museum and just down the road from that is Bookmarks - the Socialist bookstore! If you're so inclined...

And I suppose you can keep heading down, back on to Shaftsbury Avenue where the big comic bookstore, Forbidden Planet is located.

Look at the map, all those stores are within that radius.

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.654526]

>>654306

If I'm not too late....

Depends what you're after really. You can get pretty specific shops here. There aren't any great bookshops in the immediate vicinity of Tower Bridge though.

Go to Charing Cross Road, in the West End for starters. It's not what it once was but it has the main Foyles branch, which is spread over several floors and probably has the best range in the city; there's Blackwells too, which has all the usual sections but is very good on non-fiction (philosophy, etc); there's a couple of 2nd hand stores still around, such as Any Amount; and there's a couple of art bookstores still there as well, like Koenig books.

Just off of Cambridge Circus / Shaftsbury Avenue (which is halfway up CCR) you've got Magma, which is great for arts / design books and fashion magazines. And about 1/4 of the way up CCR is Cecil Court with lots of nice specialist stores (might not have anything you want but they're nice shops).

After that... well, fives mins from the Tottenham Court Road end of CCR you have two other possible stores - the London Review Bookstore (see posts above) is one way, near the British Museum. There's also a very good Oxfam charity bookshop just off of Great Russell Street near the British Museum and just down the road from that is Bookmarks - the Socialist bookstore! If you're so inclined...

And I suppose you can keep heading down, back on to Shaftsbury Avenue where the big comic bookstore, Forbidden Planet is located.

Look at the map, all those stores are within that radius.

[Anonymous No.654535]

>>654526
thanks a ton Croaker, Lot's of things for me to look into there.