Friday Links: Best Indie Bookstores

Happy Friday! Flavorwire’s recently been doing an indie bookstore roundup, which has been fun to peruse. I thought I’d share those with you and also offer a few of my own picks, which are mainly Beat-related or New York City-bound.

Roundups

• Flavorwire’s 45 Great American Bookstores to Support This Holiday Season
• Flavorwire’s 25 More Great American Bookstores to Support This Holiday Season
• BBC’s America’s Best Indie Bookstores

Beat Bookstores

• Beat Book Shop (and on facebook) in Boulder, Colorado
• Beat Museum in San Francisco, California
• City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in San Francisco, California, is mentioned on some of the above lists but is worth repeating

New York City Bookstores

• La Casa Azul in Spanish Harlem in New York City
• Brazenhead Books, a secret bookstore on the Upper East Side in New York City
• The Corner Bookstore on the Upper East Side in New York City
• Bluestockings, a fair-trade, activist bookstore on the Lower East Side in New York City
• Mercer Street Books, a bookstore for “interesting, esoteric and weird books” in the Village in New York City
• The Astoria Bookshop, a new bookstore in Queens in New York City

What are the best indie bookstores in your neighborhood?

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Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” is now available as an ebook and paperback!

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