Book lovers and entrepreneurs have built a community centered on literature in upstate New York. By Erica Ackerberg Photographs by Tony Cenicola Eight independent bookstores line a two-block stretch ...

Nestled in the Northern Catskills, the tiny village of Hobart, New York, is home to around 400 residents, and millions of fascinating characters, all stacked high on shelves. Hobart is a book village.

In the Welsh village of Hay-on-Wye, where sheep outnumber people and books spill onto the streets, a quiet revolution began. Antiquarian and academic Richard Booth inadvertently launched a global ...

Book towns, which are exactly what you’d expect, are located mostly outside the United States — in the United Kingdom, Norway, New Zealand, Japan, India, etc. According to Alex Johnson, author of ...

Julie Rockefeller runs the Book Nook, a free lending library for children and adults, since there is no public library nearby. Diana and Bill Adams, a retired lawyer and physician, relocated from ...