The Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, Mass., has been named Boston magazine's Best Bookstore in its 2014 Best of Boston issue. The citation reads, in its entirety:
"Here's one thing you can't do on Amazon: Roam the aisles, thumbing through new releases and used books. Also impossible: attending readings and lectures by Elizabeth Warren, Gary Shteyngart, B.J. Novak, and Thomas Piketty (his Harvard Book Store appearance was scheduled before he was famous, by the way). At a time when bookstores need to be much more than bookstores to survive and thrive, no other local shop offers so many reasons to turn into a bona fide bookworm. Lucky us."
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Boston magazine also recognized Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, for having the 2014 Best Reading Series, writing, "Well into the Kindle era, Boston still hits out of its weight class when it comes to bookselling, and we treat big-name authors like visiting royalty. The Booksmith is where our memoirists, like Andre Dubus III and Gail Caldwell, and our suspense gurus, from Hank Phillipi Ryan to Joseph Finder, come to tell their tales. It's where Atlantic columnist James Parker throws a celebration of his literary magazine the Pilgrim--the one produced 10 times per year by the city's homeless population. And it's where Barney Frank turns up to talk baseball. In sum, it's the kind of place you keep going back to, because you never know what they're going to think of next."