The Book Lover's Guide to Portland

 

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Powell's on Burnside: the mothership, looking north.

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Children's library at Central Library in downtown Portland.
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Cameron's, Portland's oldest bookshop.

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Reed College library, Southeast Portland.
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Portland's most unusual bookstore setting might just be this former church which houses Great Northwest Books.

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The rear entrance to Powell's on Burnside, facing south on the corner of NW 11th and Couch.
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Cameron Boehmer stretches out with a little light reading at Powell's Technical Books.

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Reading Frenzy specializes in locally published magazines and chapbooks.
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Wordstock: Portlanders turn out en masse for Joyce Carol Oates in 2006.

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Portlanders line up before the doors open at the Friends of the Library book sale.
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You'll be knee-deep in cheap hardbacks at the Friends of the Library book sale.

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Black Resource Center at the North Portland Library.
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Title Wave Used Books, operated by Multnomah County Library.

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Annie Bloom's Books in Multnomah Village.
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Multnomah County Library's Northwest Branch.

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New Renaissance Bookshop in Northwest Portland.
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Twenty Third Avenue Books in Northwest Portland.

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Daedalus Books, Rare and Used.
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Multnomah County Library St. Johns Branch, one of the Carnegie's.

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Murder by the Book, Southeast Portland.
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Longfellow's, Southeast Portland.

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Wallace Books on Southeast Milwaukie Avenue.
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Owner Rachelle Markley of Second Glance Books on Northeast Sandy Boulevard.

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Powell's annual Square Deal Sale at Pioneer Square in downtown Portland.
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Dead Sea Reader
Library of Congress
Man with his book in the Dead Sea, circa 1910.
Portland is brimming with great places to read. Let us recommend some of our favorites.
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