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Best Used-Book Store

You could never venture beyond the first floor of Dunaway Books and still be happy with its selection of used books: shelf after shelf of fiction classic, contemporary and popular; memoir and biography; cooking and children's books; not to mention the rare and antiquarian selections. But once you've explored the sprawling basement level, you mig...

What more can be said of a store that has won this category so many times we've lost count? There's a reason Bookman wins again and again, and it's not because a friend once scored a complete set of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire from the 1880s for $90. Sure, it was all beat-up, but still.

When we want a rare selection of nonfiction used titles, we make our first stop right here. And, the foodie in us always is pleased with a feast of cookbook options from all over. They recently added more storage so shoppers can more easily browse titles. We also like that the staff here is as fond of reading and books as we are.

When we want a rare selection of nonfiction used titles, we make our first stop right here. And, the foodie in us always is pleased with a feast of cookbook options from all over. They recently added more storage so shoppers can more easily browse titles. We also like that the staff here is as fond of reading and books as we are.