Top Ten Tuesday- 10/4/22

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly post hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where people like me who love lists and books can share our thoughts on fun bookish topics. This week’s topic:

October 4: Favorite Bookstores OR Bookstores I’d Love to Visit (The UK celebrated National Bookshop Day on October 1, so I thought it would be a fun topic!)

When I saw this prompt, the only thing that immediately came to mind was Jenny Lawson’s store, but I had so much fun researching other bookstores around the world.

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Bertrand Bookstore (Lisbon, Portugal)

Established in 1732, this is the oldest bookstore in the world.

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Birchbank Books (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)

Owned by author Louis Erdrich this Birchbank Books features on indigenous literature and goods.

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The Last Bookstore (Los Angelos, California, USA)

The Last Bookstore bookshop features a tunned of books and gravity defying bookshelves.

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Libreria Acqua Alta (Venice, Italy)

Liberia Acqua Alta uses bathtubs and gondolas as shelves and houses cats.

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Bart’s Books (Ojai, California, USA)

Bart’s Books is the world’s largest outdoor bookstore.

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Book and Bed (Tokyo, Japan)

Book and Bed is a hostel where you can sleep in a bookshelf surrounded by 5,000 books.

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Books & Books at the Studios of Key West (Key West, Florida, USA)

Co-owned by Judy Blume and her husband, this is a bookstore combined with a nonprofit arts and culture center.

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Hay-On-Wye, Wales

Hay-On-Wye is a town of 1,000 with over forty bookshops. I couldn’t settle on one, so I’m counting the whole town.

2

Atlantis Books (Oia, Santorini, Greece)

This is the only bookstore on the list that I’ve been to, but there was so much to see in Oia that I didn’t get to spend as much time as I would’ve liked.

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Jenny Lawson’s Nowhere bookshop. (San Antonio, Texas, USA)

I love the Bloggess and her Nowhere bookshop in San Antonio has been on my bucket list since it opened.