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City Lights Bookstore

38 people want to go here. 126 people have been here.

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79 out of 79 people (100%) think this place is worth visiting.

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Tbevilacqua1034
Winston-Salem

Worth visiting!

Why I recommend this place to visitors

It is one of the best independent bookstores in the country and a literary landmark. While it seems like most literary landmarks exist in Europe, this place is a bonefide landmark and it’s right here the in the US.


SebastianSplendid
West Hollywood

Worth visiting!

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Makes me cry. I’d love to find Kerouac’s ghost (before he got fat) and have a go in the stacks.


roguebuckeye
San Luis Obispo

Worth visiting!

Why I recommend this place to visitors

Feel the Beat Boy vibe


expnd
Fort Worth

Worth visiting!

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i had some kind of trans generational flashback going up the stairs here.


biancanichole
San Antonio

Worth visiting!

The first time I went to this place

i was in San Francisco in April 2006 for a choir tour my high school was doing. I first begged the trip director to make time in our itinerary to stop at the bookstore I’d read about for sooo long! well it was AMAZING. make sure, when you go, to stop at the door that has I Am The Door written on it. It’s nothing prophetic but just standing in front of it, knowing of all the literary genius that surrounds you in the store. just stopping there, aware of all the Beatnik culture San Francisco once thrived on, will haunt you. it was awesome and I want to go back!!