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June 15, 2008

Your vacation planner -- right here

Open road We asked for favorite bookstores you've discovered on vacation, and you really delivered. Read Street readers sent in more than 100 great stores across the country, stretching from Gulf of Maine in Brunswick, Maine to Left Bank Books in St. Louis to Macdonald Bookstore in Estes Park, Colo. (my pick) to the Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Now, to make it even easier to find the stores -- and so you don't have to scroll though all the recommendations -- we've created this map of the United States. When your itinerary is set, just click on the blue markers to get information about nearby stores that are reader favorites. (We'll leave the map up all summer, over there on the right.)

And if we've haven't included your favorite, post a comment so we can add it to the map.

Posted by Dave Rosenthal at 5:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)
Categories: Bookstores

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Heck yeah, I have favorites! In fact, on my blog I just wrote a post about indies that lists my favorites. The post is here, for the whole list:
http://kristykiernan.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/florida-indies-and-childhood-memories/

If I have to just choose one, it would have to be:
Sarasota News & Books
1341 Main Street
Sarasota, FL 34326

If I get FOUR:
Sanibel Island Bookshop
1571 Periwinkle Way
Sanibel, FL 33957

Downtown Books
67 Commerce St
Apalachicola, FL 32320

Inkwood Books
216 South Armenia Ave.
Tampa FL 33609

And for out of state (for me anyway):

Cornerstone Books
45 Lafayette Street
Salem MA 01970

Lemuria Books
202 Banner Hall
4465 I-55 North
Jackson, MS 39206

Posted by: Kristy | June 18, 2008 4:19 PM

You really need to add Green Apple Books in San Francisco to your map. It's the best new/used bookstore in San Francisco. I try to only go in there when I have at least 40 bucks to blow. It's hard to leave the place without a stack of books...
http://www.greenapplebooks.com

Posted by: Bob Calhoun | June 23, 2008 2:53 PM

We were thrilled to see that the store was included, and even more thrilled to see it was recommended by Kristy Kiernan, one of our favorite authors. I just read the ARC for her new book (due out in August) and predict it is going to be a huge hit.

If you ever make it up our way, come and visit!

Best,
Beth Simpson, Event Coordinator
Cornerstone Books

Posted by: Beth Simpson | June 25, 2008 2:51 PM

I have a friend in NYC, Bonnie Slotnick, who has a remarkable used and antiquarian cookbook shop, which she has managed to keep open in the Village for at least a decade. A real feat.
Bonnie Slotnick • Cookbooks, 163 West Tenth Street
www.bonnieslotnickcookbooks.com/

Posted by: Linda | July 10, 2008 11:59 AM

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Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is the Maryland Editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme.

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