Happy Tuesday!! This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) asks us to share ten book events or festivals that we’d love to go to someday. Instead, I’d like to focus on ten bookshops I’d love to visit someday. (Can you tell that I miss visiting bookstores so much?!)
Strand | New York City, New York. I’ve always wanted to visit this iconic bookstore, but I’ve never managed to make it there on my few trips to New York City. {website}
Pages of Hackney | London, England. This looks like such a cozy, cute little shop! I love the bright blue front. {website}
Honesty Bookshop | Hay-on-Wye, Wales. Outdoor books for purchase on the honor system? This sounds like such a lovely way to find a new favorite read, as well as a great bookish community. {website}
Libreria Acqua Alta | Venice, Italy. A floating bookstore?!?! This sounds like something out of a fairy tale. {website}
Faulkner House Books | New Orleans, Louisiana. I am a huge fan of William Faulkner’s writing, and just learned that his apartment was turned into this bookstore?!?! Definitely a must-visit for me! {website}
London Review Bookshop | London, England. This seems like such a lovely shop with a cute cafe and lots of bookish events to attend! {website}
Mr. B’s Emporium Bookshop | Bath, England. Cozy, cute, and dedicated to finding books that their customers will love–if I ever make my way to Bath, this is definitely a must-visit for me! {website}
Parnassus Books | Nashville, Tennessee. First opened by author Ann Patchett and publisher Karen Hayes, this bookshop once the only bookshop in Nashville. As someone who just became an avid fan of Ann Patchett’s books, I’d love to visit this shop someday! {website}
Libreria | London, England. A tech-free bookshop?! Sounds like something I would love to experience. (Also, they have an amazing website with a sort of virtual tour!) {website}
Lutyens & Rubenstein | London, England. This bookshop looks absolutely beautiful and has a unique quality to its stock: they canvassed hundreds of readers, asking what books they would most like to see in a bookshop. {website}
What bookshops would you like to visit? What’s the best bookshop you’ve ever been to? Are there any that should be added to my list? Let me know in the comments section below!
Yours,
HOLLY
Great list! I’d love to go to Libreria Acqua Alta, and I’d really like to go to Mr B’s Emporium, too.
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Thank you! 🙂
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Omg this is the list of my dreams Holly!!!! I WANT TO GO TO EVERY SINGLE ONE!! I’d include the Persephone book shop too because I’m such a fan of their books. Awesome list 💜❤️💚🧡
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Thank you!! Haha right, all of these amazing bookshops make me want to travel so much! 🙂
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I would love to visit everyone of those beautiful shops. I hope the dog is better soon.
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Yes!!
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I love the Strand. I want to make s bookshop tour of England some day!
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Me too! 🙂
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This is such a fun spin on the prompt! ❤️I’d love to just live in London and spend weekends exploring all the amazing bookshops in England, they seem so unique & beautiful! (:
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Thank you so much!
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Snap! I did Bookshops too, and also picked Hay On Wye’s Honesty Bookshop! Great minds…
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So great! It seems like such an amazing shop 🙂
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I should have gone with bookshops as well! So many beautiful ones on here! I would love to go to the strand someday as well!
My post!
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This list was so much fun to make! 🙂
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I always forget to look up unique local bookshops when I go on vacation. My goal is really just to remember to do that no matter where I am! Though I love the sound of some of the ones you’ve found here.
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I love looking up bookshops before I go somewhere–you find the best ones that way! 🙂
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It’s a really great idea! I’ll have to keep it in mind when we’re allowed to travel again…
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This is one of my favorite lists to read 🤩The Strand is the only one I’ve been to from this post, but it really is as great as everyone makes it out to be! I hope you have a chance to visit all of these one day 🥰
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Thanks so much!! 🙂
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I live in Nashville and go to Parnassus pretty often. When it was open as its currently only doing online and mail order business. It is run so well and they have all sorts of author events. Now they are online so you should check out their website! One bookstore I went to one time while on vacation in Key West was Books & Books owned by Judy Blume! She was actually there when we were there and I had my picture taken with her. It was an awesome surprise. Nice post!
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Ahh that’s so cool that you go to Parnassus! And thanks for the Key West recommendation, that’s so cool that it’s owned by Judy Blume!
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Have you been to Powell’s City of books in Portland, OR? I love that bookstore!
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Ooh no I haven’t! I’ll had to add it to my list! 🙂
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I’ve been to Strand, and I loved it! It’s a bit chaotic, but I got a hardback version of The Queens of Innis Lear super cheap, it was so worth it!
Also Shakespeare & Company in Paris should be high on the list. It’s the cutest place ever 😍
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Oooh I’ve been to the Shakespeare & Company in Vienna, but not in Paris–will definitely have to add it to the list! 🙂
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I love this post! Visiting bookstores again is yet another reason I can’t wait for these strange times to be over hah. If I get to London this year I’ll definitely visit some of these! Livraria Lello in Porto is on my list, not only does it looks like something from Hogwarts but Porto itself looks amazing 🙂
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Thank you so much! 🙂
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Definitely add Powell’s in Portland, the largest independent bookstore in the world, and The Last Bookstore in LA for its iconic book arch!
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Ooh thanks so much for these recommendations!
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This is a great list! There are so many I want to go to. Have you been to The Last Bookstore in LA? That is definitely a bucket list bookstore.
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I’ll have to add The Last Bookstore to my list! 🙂
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oh I really want to go to the strand and Libreria Acqua Alta as well!! And london review bookshop is nice 🙂 I’m missing bookshops as well!
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I want to go to one so badly!
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ah I hear you!!
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Ahh what a lovely list, Holly, this makes me want to travel all around and visit all the bookshops. I hope to go to the Strand as well someday 😀
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Thank you so much! 🙂
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These all look so excellent! When I lived in New York, it was a constant struggle to NOT go to the Strand every weekend… honestly one of the best bookstores I’ve been to, except for the fact that they don’t have any comfy chairs to sit on while you browse through books!
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Ahh that’s amazing that you lived so close!
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His apartment was turned into a bookshop?! Well that’s another author dream I didn’t know I had.
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Right!!!
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