”A house without books is like a room without windows.” - Horace Mann
Inspiration, aspiration, new worlds, places unseen—these books deliver on all of it. Covering the best and most vibrant corners of travel, art, culture, design, and architecture, the high-quality hardcovers from Gestalten are things of beauty to be admired today and 50 years from now. A must for anyone who’s ever lost hours among the stacks, Do You Read Me? is an impressive collection of some of the world’s most beloved and beautiful bookstores. The detail here is so rich, you can smell the pages.
Features
Presents a full-color journey to the vast and varied bookstores across the world
Includes tiny corner bookshops, minimalist concept stores, massive book cathedrals, and everything in between
Stories of the curators and owners behind the stores add another dimension to the profiles
Written by travel writer Marianne Julia Strauss who spent a decade searching for the best bookstores
Printed in Germany and Forest Stewardship Council™️ certified
About the Author
Travel writer Marianne Julia Strauss has scoured the globe for the past decade in search of the top bookstores.
