Best Language Bookshops In Boston Near Me

Sarah Black: The Brattle Book Shop is an absolute gem. When the weather is good, they put carts of inexpensive books outside for browsers. Inside, 3 floors of used and rare books, and a staff that's knowledgeable, and never bothersome. It's a book lover's paradise

Natalie D: This is such a great little used book store close to Boston Common! Outside you'll find racks of stickered books for $3-5 (a mix of fiction and nonfiction) while inside they have different sections and topics of books (hardback has the price written inside the book, paperback on a sticker on the front cover). Always worth a look to see what they have and also take a look at the rare books which have sold too! Condition does vary like all used book stores but I think the books are priced fairly and the staff are always friendly!

Alvaro Cervera: Amazing place to browse books

Enrica Finotto: I have been there last summer, I think I spent almost 3 hours inside it, reading ancient postcards form all over the world unknown people wrote to their relatives and friends! It is a really fascinating place. Enjoy!

Mathieu De Bastos: A book worms dream, 3 floors and an outdoor section filled with all sorts of works. Worth going even if you don’t plan on buying anything.

Tetiana Shekhovtsova: Interesting Book shop

Heather Casto: Felt like the best book yard sale ever. There is no organization of books, yikes, but awesome selection and prices

Nick W: Very cool bookstore. We checked out the alley before heading inside. Some very interesting finds including Gulliver's travels (pictured). I asked how much it was out of curiosity but he didn't know off the top of his head and I didn't want to make him open the case. Worth checking out if you like books at all.

Eric Johnson: Large used bookstore with many unsorted $1 to $5 specials in an outdoor lot. You can make some great finds early on a good day.

KASTURI BARDE: Found this gem while exploring the area close to my office. They have rare, vintage books as well as sale books out in the alley. A book lover’s dream!

Ivan Corona: I was in Boston for a Business trip and I noticed this cute little library in a alley while riding an Uber to the hotel. I couldn’t even make it to the hotel, I had the Uber driver drop me off a few blocks away. For a moment I thought I wouldn’t find it again but I was lucky to find it and wow, such a cute and random experience. I spent about an hour searching the outdoor shelf’s and then went inside to check out more books and all the antiques they had inside. I brought a couple books and returned home with a cute memory.

LH: Tolle Buchhandlung mit einzigartigen Interior und super fairen Preisen.

Sharanya Sarkar: A pretty unique book store!

Karla Plascencia: Such a unique way to buy books. I really like the fact is outdoors. It has a big variety of books at a cheap price.

brian holzhausen: Cool place to look at books.

Alex Terrero: Me gusta mucho este lugar. Bueno para comer y hacer la compra.

Josh Roberts: Delightful bookstore, all sorts of fantastic used books.

Sònia Díaz: Llibreria amb molts llibres de segona mà a preus excepcionals. Hi trobes autèntiques joies.

Brendan Deeney: Wonderfully unique bookstore with a lot of history, and a great collection of books. One of the best parts of Brattle is the outdoor, discounted book selection that they set up in their spare lot next to the store. Racks and racks of $1,$3,$5 books to browse on a nice day is a wonderful way to kill an hour. Highly recommend you stop by and see for yourself!!

Terry Wendelken: Another good stop to look for a book in Boston. You can turn around and lose two hours in this place so look out! The outdoor books is a good stroll.

Kelly Crandall: It was an interesting place with a lot of old maps and some pretty cool books. A lot of older books with some unique things. The man working seemed nice but also busy with something other than the books. Overall, not bad if you want to see some old books.

taylor richardson: Excited to find a new book store to find some old design and film photography books until the guy working was rude. Didn’t bother to say hi, ask if I needed help, etc. but was sure welcoming to the other people who came in after me. Spend your money at another book store that actually welcomes their guests who get excited to go in and buy something.

pjs: Great book store off the road in a lovely alley. Excellent selection of rare and unique books.

E. S.: If you're going to get lost anywhere, get lost in here. It's the one place I want to be in a zombie apocalypse. Heaven.

Brit: Wonderful bookstore with uncommon finds and enough substance to satisfy all your esoteric musings

Michael Skvarla: Stopped in 7 or 8 years ago and loved it, one of the best unscheduled stops of our visit to the point that I still remember it

Rob G: This is a very interesting antique book store.

Josh Roberts: So many interesting books, great selection to check out

Paxton Thayer: Cute little shop. Can get crowded quickly if busy, but on a little brick street and overall a cool place. The maps there are also interesting!

Jade Gonzalez: Great little used bookstore with unique editions. We just came to peruse but you could easily spend hours in here. Only downside is we didn’t get to see the cat 😢

Caroline DeBrota: Lovely old bookstore with a bunch of maps and old prints as well. Prices seem reasonable. You are welcome to browse, which is nice.

Howard Khan: Amazing place. Love it!

Jenitza Camacho: Hidden gem!

Project Hu148: Great used bookstore

Alex: old books galore. if books older than you are is your thing this is the place to go

Jose Luis: Muy interesante tienda, hay infinidad de libros, realmente puedes encontrar lo que buscas y algo interesante. Lo recomiendo

Arthurious: One of the few true rare + antique bookstores with a lovely selection of hard-to-find titles on all subjects. I enjoyed the art & design section quite a bit.Through the store, you'll find many original old prints as well, including maps and 19-century illustrations.

Subhankar Pal: Didn’t purchase anything here, but seemed like a gem of a store. Lots of antique books at reasonable prices.

Kelley and Christine Carter: Super cool place

Kip Keith: My long-time favorite used bookstore in Metropolitan Boston, period. A little hard to find, but absolutely worth the trouble. Latest finds: a biography of Henry Knox and a collection of Franz Kafka short stories. Vintage prints and some comic books, too.

Jay Prajapati: Very spacious and quiet place, you can also read your books inside

annie r: simply the best bookstore in the boston area 3 such a fantastic and well-curated selection of books & gifts, adorably decorated, and in a lovely area of boston. highly recommend this store!

pablo molina: Place is amazing. Great collection of books, and souvenirs.staff always ready to help find what you’re looking for.

Duc Hoang: NGUYỄN PHAN QUẾ MAI BROUGHT ME HERE!!

Liz Vincensi: Absolutely love this store and the community they've created. They have a great selection of not just books but also gifts, and employees are super helpful. What prompted me to write a review though was actually ordering online!I've since moved away from the area, so this week I decided after finishing the first book in a series digitally, to order the next two in a physical copy. I checked my local B&N to go pick it up since I was eager to keep reading, they didn't have it in the store, so I decided if I was ordering online anyway, I'll check out Brookline Booksmith.I placed my online order for two books that were listed as not in stock at the store on March 27th. They have been delivered to my house by today, March 30th! That means they were ordered to the store, sent to the store, then made it to my home on the north shore in record time. The automatic communication was great too to keep me up to date.So even if you need a book shipped to you fast - you don't need to turn to the big online guys, stick with the Booksmith!

Lauren Renfro: The Booksmith is a magical place 📚it’s my favorite place to find new stories, and if I can’t find what I’m looking for, the staff are always super helpful locating or ordering the title. It’s nigh on impossible to walk out with just one book, and I find myself browsing the aisles on the regular. So many options! I appreciate the displays of books relevant to current events, and the ‘bookseller recommendation’ tags are awesome- I’ve actually found a few I ended up loving because of the tags!The used book cellar is pretty robust so definitely check that out! I love the expanded gifts section and how much space there is for exploring.

Greg Haas: Great bookstore with everything you couldn't think of. Shop local.

Oliver: One of my favorite independent bookstores ever! Love the vibe in here.

Erin Caldwell: Great, large local bookstore with a nice title selection as well as gifts.

Ashlee Ya: Can easily spend hours here. My favorite bookstore in Boston!

Josh Roberts: Fantastic selection and location, nicely laid out with tons of current and older titles. New stuff and all sorts of miscellaneous goods on the first floor, used books in the basement.

Brian Fox: Best bookstore in the country. Period. Go here, and support this amazing place. So lucky we have this!

Kristin Mb: Great selection of books, new and used. Even the used books are curated so no junky books to sort through. Lots of great discounted books, and a cute gift shop as well. I love and appreciate their online and in-person events too.

Alex Albert: I could spend hours and hours here…and I have! One of my favorite places

Brooke Sutton: Favorite bookstore in Boston!

Jesse Dexter: Best bookstore in the country!

Elias D: The finest bookstore around, as far as I'm concerned! I also do like Papercuts in JP, but in this neighborhood, BB is THE place for books, gifts, used books downstairs, journals, and all sorts of cute gifts! It's a wonderfully-organized store with caring employees and book lovers; filled with recommendations and descriptions. Usually busy but flows well. You can easily spend an hour just looking at everything here. Go support them. ❤️

Winnie Lee: My favorite bookstore! Huge selection and well organized. Also a great spot to get gifts.

Isabel Fontes: Big, and well organized bookstore with well informed and helpful staff. There are so many book and gifts to choose from. It does get very busy during the holidays but the staff stay positive and take their time to make recommendations or help you find a book.

Dianne Kaeli: Pretty good book selection with some good bargain selections. Browsing the gift items is enjoyable. You likely will not leave empty-handed.

Doug Griffith: There is a good selection of BU items, especially clothing. They also have cups, mugs, notebooks, etc. Prices are what you'd expect--fairly high. The main floor has most of the clothes, especially men's; upstairs has a bit more, and that is mostly women's, plus some clearance racks for both men and women. Clearance prices are good if you can find something you like in your size.

laura wegs: Sizes are way off and return process costs $20! So you lose money and don't get a product that fits. Amazon will take over because of this type of business

Leonard Mosca: I've always liked Barnes and nobles bookstore they have amazing selections of books and games and strategy guides well they used to at least and they have so many other things in there which makes it all around kind of shop for books magazines and anything you can think of you won't be disappointed and the online catalog has amazing selections

Hari Subramanian: Like someone else said in reviews, it is a BU merchandise store with a small collection of books, not at all a typical B&N. BU Merchandise is generally overpriced, especially the above-average apparel is. Not sure if the overprice is a function of B&N corporate or BU business team or both

박해나파: Unkind

Claudia Romanczukiewicz: Loved visiting the bookstore at Boston University.

Kit Parker: I remember when University bookstores used to be a pretty cool place to go and visit. Now it's just a sweatshirt store with stationary

Jeffrey Marquez: Went for BU gear

Margaux Ilyse Krembs Epter: cute bookstore! lots of options

Wulida Wahidatul Masruria: Niceee store

#becausedan: Official BU merchandise. And book store with supplies.

Aisha Gi: Lovely place with great products

Ed M: More of a souvenir shop really

Beatriz Cóbreces: Although they didn't have the book I was looking for, the shop is nice, well stocked & the member of staff that helped me was professional, kind & knowledgeable!

Kristine Schmalenberg: All the merch you could want

Betsy Camacho: Muy bien clasificado y encontré los libros q mis hijas querían, feliz.

Ann Duffy: Lots of BU stuff but definitely overpriced.

Juan M. Berthin: Good store, excellent customer service!!

Dino Quintero: Thank you. I enjoyed visiting and purchasing a few souvenirs.

LIANG LIANG: Nuce

Erkin Kurganov: Service and goods are best

Kiho Kim: They have tons of merchandises there.If you want any item with Harvard name and/or logo on it, you will find it.They allowed 10% discount for our purchase even if my son had only student ID number (not officially a student yet), which was good.

Carlos Narváez: Merece muchísimo la pena entrar. Tienen prendas de ropa muy chulas, pero algo caras. Tiene un montón de material de papelería muy bonito, pero también algo caro. Y si te gustan los libros, no te lo puedes perder. Tienes tres plantas llenas de libros, de todo tipo, desde académicos hasta novelas y libros de divulgación, ensayos... También tienes mucho material de merchandising tipo tazas, bolis, imanes... Para perder un buen rato si te acercas hasta aquí.

Pablo Medina: HARVARD ❤️

Talib Kweli: Great book store for those who cant think for themselves, and need direction from a self anoited ruleing elite. They will tell you what moralities to adopt, who to hate, who to revere, how to approach science, what to be afraid of, where consciousness comes from, and of course who to vote for.

Ilario Deplano: really great💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻😉🤙🏻😘😍

Irina Makucha: Very helpfull!

W A: This one is one of the smaller shops on Harvard

Stezin K: Very clean store, lots of Harvard products. From Harvard shirts to hats, they've got them all. A little expensive. Nice variety of books, I like this shop.

Abhinav Ajith: Get your Harvard T-shirts and Hoodies here

Anupam Jena: One of the best places around to grab a book with a cup of coffee and reflect on life

Ali Bobali: Decent selection of branded apparel and products. Prices are steeper than many other places and gift shops.. 3 hats cost me almost $100!!

Ravi Alexander: Amazing!

Maria Gabriela Pelaez: Love books! Spent too much here...