Though independent bookstores’ sales were in decline for several years, there’s recently been a resurgence in sales for local booksellers. Hopefully, this means the emergence of even more privately owned new and used bookstores to add to our list!

But where’s your favorite neighborhood spot to shop for paperbacks? Barnes and Noble certainly isn’t the place to be if you want to down a glass of wine with your contemporary fiction, but is there anything chain bookstores have that independent places are lacking? Let us know all about it in the comments below!