Bookstores, subscriber favorites

GOODS & SERVICES • The Nines

A Nines’ worth of responses to our call for favorite NYC specialty bookstores:

• Sweet Pickle Books (Lower East Side), used books (and pickles)

• Wild Sorrel Cookbooks (East Village, above), organized by cuisine, food type, and much more

• Bonnie Slotnick (East Village), endless supply of used cookbooks

• Book Club Bar (East Village), cocktails & books

• Mysterious Bookshop (Tribeca), in the literal sense: a big mystery selection

• The Drama Book Shop (Midtown), where every actor, playwright, director worth their salt shops

• Twisted Spine (Williamsburg), horror, of course

• Love & Legends Books (Prospect Heights), sci-fi/fantasy and romance

• BEM (Stuyvesant Heights), for Black food literature

BONUS: Three Lives & Co. (Greenwich Village), ‘an anachronism’