Read Your Way Through the New Year
Written by Eduarda Zanoni
Another year has come and gone and the season to make new goals for the year is upon us. Make reading a New Year’s resolution with the help of these charming bookstores in Boston:
Trident Booksellers & Cafe | 338 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02115
Indie bookstore and cafe offering an all-day breakfast menu.
Brattle Book Shop | 9 West St, Boston, MA 02111
One of the U.S.’s oldest and largest used bookstores.
Boston Athenaeum | 10-½ Beacon St, Boston, MA 02108
One of the country’s oldest independent libraries offering a $40 day pass (all ages) or a $310 annual membership to persons under 40.
Brookline Booksmith | 279 Harvard St, Brookline, MA 02446
Family-owned bookshop stocking used and new books, and gifts.
All She Wrote Books | 451 Artisan Way, Somerville, MA 02145
Independent bookseller that only offers a selection of female, queer, and non-binary authors.
Commonwealth Books | 9 Spring Lane, Boston, MA 02109
Located Downtown, this bookstore has a wide inventory of used books dating back 500 years as well as ephemera items– prints, engravings, and antique maps.
Posman Books | 127 Newbury St., Boston, MA 02116
A chain-bookstore designed with the local community in mind.
Tres Gatos | 470 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Full-service restaurant, book, and music store in the Greater Boston area.
Harvard Book Store | 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
Locally-owned, independently-run bookstore in Cambridge offering new and used books, as well as Harvard University gifts.
Little Free Library | Various locations across different Boston Neighborhoods
Take a book, share a book: non-profit books-sharing boxes around Boston
Hopefully, this list has inspired you to take up reading this new year. Happy New Year and Happy Reading!