Contents
Introduction....................xi
Martha Ackmann The Odyssey Bookshop, South Hadley, MA....................1
Isabel Allende Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA....................7
Rick Atkinson Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington, D.C....................11
Wendell Berry Carmichael's Bookstore, Louisville, KY....................16
Jeanne Birdsall Broadside Bookshop, Northampton, MA....................19
Rick Bragg The Alabama Booksmith, Birmingham, AL....................22
Charles Brandt Chapter One Bookstore, Ketchum, ID....................28
Douglas Brinkley BookPeople, Austin, TX....................32
Liam Callanan Boswell Book Company, Milwaukee, WI....................36
Ron Carlson Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, AZ....................42
Kate Christensen WORD, Brooklyn, NY....................45
Carmela Ciuraru The Community Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY....................48
Meg Waite Clayton Books Inc., Palo Alto, CA....................52
Jon Clinch Northshire Bookstore, Manchester, VT....................58
Mick Cochrane Talking Leaves Books, Buffalo, NY....................62
Ron Currie, Jr. Longfellow Books, Portland, ME....................67
Angela Davis-Gardner Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh, NC....................72
Ivan Doig University Book Store, Seattle, WA....................78
Laurent Dubois The Regulator Bookshop, Durham, NC....................82
Timothy Egan The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA....................88
Dave Eggers Green Apple Books, San Francisco, CA....................91
Louise Erdrich Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN....................95
Jonathan Evison Eagle Harbor Book Co., Bainbridge Island, WA....................98
Kathleen Finneran Left Bank Books, St Louis, MO....................101
Fannie Flagg Page & Palette, Fairhope, AL....................112
Ian Frazier Watchung Booksellers, Montclair, NJ....................116
Mindy Friddle Fiction Addiction, Greenville, SC....................120
David Fulmer Eagle Eye Book Shop, Decatur, GA....................123
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA....................127
Peter Geye Micawber's, St. Paul, MN....................131
Albert Goldbarth Watermark Books and Café, Wichita, KS....................137
John Grisham That Bookstore in Blytheville, Blytheville, AR....................141
Pete Hamill Strand Book Store, New York, NY....................144
Daniel Handler and Lisa Brown The Booksmith, San Francisco, CA....................148
Elin Hilderbrand Nantucket Bookworks, Nantucket, MA....................152
Ann Hood Island Books, Middletown, RI....................156
Pico Iyer Chaucer's Books, Santa Barbara, CA....................161
Ward Just Bunch of Grapes Bookstore, Vineyard Haven, MA....................171
Lesley Kagen Next Chapter Bookshop, Mequon, WI....................174
Stephanie Kallos Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, WA....................178
Larry Kane Chester County Book & Music Company, West Chester, PA....................183
Laurie R. King Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA....................189
Katrina Kittle Saturn Booksellers, Gaylord, MI....................194
Scott Lasser Explore Booksellers, Aspen, CO....................198
Ann Haywood Leal Bank Square Books, Mystic, CT....................201
Caroline Leavitt McNally Jackson Books, New York, NY....................206
Mike Leonard The Book Stall at Chestnut Court, Winnetka, IL....................209
Robert N. Macomber The Muse Book Shop, DeLand, FL....................214
Jill McCorkle Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC....................217
Mameve Medwed Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA....................221
Wendell and Florence Minor The Hickory Stick Bookshop, Washington Depot, CT....................226
Barry Moser Lemuria, Jackson, MS....................231
Howard Frank Mosher Galaxy Bookshop, Hardwick, VT....................237
Arthur Nersesian St. Mark's Bookshop, New York, NY....................243
Kate Niles Maria's Bookshop, Durango, CO....................247
Ann Packer The Capitola Book Café, Capitola, CA....................252
Chuck Palahniuk Powell's City of Books, Portland, OR....................255
Ann Patchett McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey, MI....................261
Edith Pearlman Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA....................266
Jack Pendarvis Square Books, Oxford, MS....................269
Francine Prose Strand Book Store, New York, NY....................274
Ron Rash City Lights Bookstore, Sylva, NC....................277
Tom Robbins Village Books, Bellingham, WA....................279
Adam Ross Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN....................282
Carrie Ryan Park Road Books, Charlotte, NC....................286
Lisa See Vroman's Bookstore, Pasadena CA....................290
Brian Selznick Warwick's, La Jolla, CA....................295
Mahbod Seraji Kepler's Books, Menlo Park, CA....................299
Nancy Shaw Nicola's Books, Ann Arbor, MI....................302
Jeff Smith The Book Loft, Columbus, OH....................305
Lee Smith Purple Crow Books, Hillsborough, NC....................308
Les Standiford Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL....................313
Nancy Thayer Mitchell's Book Corner, Nantucket, MA....................319
Michael Tisserand Octavia Books, New Orleans, LA....................322
Luis Alberto Urrea Anderson's Bookshops, Naperville, IL....................327
Abraham Verghese Prairie Lights, Iowa City, IA....................332
Audrey Vernick BookTowne, Manasquan, NJ....................336
Matt Weiland Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY....................340
Stephen White Tattered Cover Book Store, Denver, CO....................344
Joan Wickersham The Toadstool Bookshop, Peterborough, NH....................353
Terry Tempest Williams The King's English Bookshop, Salt Lake City, UT....................357
Simon Winchester The Bookloft, Great Barrington, MA....................361
Afterword....................367
Bookstores by Location....................375
