Best of Boston
Best Bookstore
2000 Best Bookstore
Tie: Brookline Booksmith; New England Mobile Book Fair
Brookline; Newton
Even with so many local book shops sadly fallen victim to the megachains and the Internet, we still are blessed with two independents, very different [...] read more»
2000 Best Bookstore, Used
Boston Book Annex
Boston
Like a portal to Narnia, a door below street level reveals an impossibly boundless collection of used books, neatly organized into hundreds of irresistible categories, [...] read more»
1999 Best Bookstore
Brookline Booksmith
Brookline
Brookline Booksmith is dedicated to the art of browsing. This cozy store allows book lovers to curl up on the wood floor and thumb through [...] read more»
1999 Best Bookstore, Gay
We Think the World of You
Boston
This delightful shop boasts a quirky selection, a white-hot reading series, a helpful and knowledgeable staff, and a magazine rack that recognizes there's more to [...] read more»
1999 Best Bookstore, Suburban
The Concord Book Shop
Concord
The historic town that produced such literary luminaries as Emerson, Alcott, and Thoreau seems destined to have the bookshop. And Concord does. Why go to [...] read more»
1998 Best Bookstore, General, Urban
WordsWorth Books
Cambridge
Much more than best-sellers and self-help, this complex two-store shrine to the written word stocks and discounts almost everything from Aristotle to Zagat's. Books are [...] read more»
1998 Best Bookstore, General, Suburban
Borders
As much as we hate to say it, Borders is elevating the culture quotient in the suburbs. If only it weren't a chain. Live jazz [...] read more»
1998 Best Bookstore, Specialty
Globe Corner Bookstore
Boston
This is the place to satisfy literary wanderlust, from Boston to Bangladesh to Beijing. Seating makes longer browsing more comfy. And the staff doesn't seem [...] read more»
1998 Best Bookstore, Cookbooks
New England Mobile Bike Fair
Newton Highlands
Nobody has a more luscious selection of cookbooks than this mammoth warehouse on the Newton/ Needham line. Your 15-year-old just became a vegan? Hosting 60 [...] read more»
1997 Best Bookstore, Poetry
The Grolier Poetry Book Shop
Cambridge
Founded in 1927, the Grolier is the only establishment of its kind in the nation—and probably the world: a bookstore devoted to poetry, and nothing [...] read more»