Best of Boston
Best Bookstore
Mona Miri
Beacon Hill Books & Café
Boston
How do you get a supermodel, an Olympian, and a U.S.senator all in the same room? With the lure of Beacon Hill Books & Café, [...] read more»
2021 Best Bookstore
Frugal Bookstore
Roxbury
The pandemic deeply challenged the future of Boston’s foremost Black-owned bookstore, with owners Leonard Egerton and Clarrissa Cropper holding online fundraisers to maintain not only [...] read more»
2020 Best Bookstore
Frugal Bookstore
Roxbury
Looking to bolster your collection of anti-racist literature and books about the Black experience? This Nubian Square mainstay has you covered. But what makes owners [...] read more»
2019 Best Bookstore
Trident Booksellers and Café
Boston
Sprinkler damage from a small fire in the winter of 2018 forced this Newbury Street fixture to close its doors for the first time in [...] read more»
2018 Best Bookstore
Brookline Booksmith
Brookline
In an era when you can access millions of titles on a single screen, the Booksmith still draws throngs of hungry readers. They come for [...] read more»
2017 Best Bookstore
Porter Square Books
Cambridge
Can your Kindle feed you while you browse? Porter Square Books does, at its on-site cafթ serving delicious Iggy's pastries. Does your Kindle help out [...] read more»
2016 Best Bookstore
Trident Booksellers & Cafe
Boston
With a selection ranging from the latest bestsellers to indie up-and-comers, this Newbury Street institution pleases all manner of bookworm. Home to two stories of [...] read more»
2015 Best Bookstore
Brookline Booksmith
Brookline
More than just a bookstore, it's a monument to the literary life. The orderly stacks have helpful comment cards from the staff, and they're packed [...] read more»
2014 Best Bookstore
Harvard Book Store
Cambridge
Here’s one thing you can’t do on Amazon: Roam the aisles, thumbing through new releases and used books. Also impossible: attending readings and lectures by [...] read more»
2013 Best Bookstore
Brookline Booksmith
Brookline
Despite our devotion to Kindles and iPads, it takes just two minutes at Brookline Booksmith for us to fall in love with the printed word [...] read more»
2012 Best Bookstore
The Coop
Cambridge
With independent bookstores (and even national chains) falling by the digital wayside, it's all the more impressive that this classic soldiers on. The four-story Harvard [...] read more»