The 27 Best Books to Read While Staying Home

We ask independent booksellers for their quarantine reading lists. HYPEBEAST Features - Go in-depth and learn more about the culture. [HYPEBEAST]( [Features]( May 02, 2020 [The 27 Best Books to Read While Staying Home]( We ask independent booksellers for their quarantine reading lists. [The 27 Best Books to Read While Staying Home]( David Park If you weren’t already an avid reader, you may have recently found yourself with far more time at home and hence, more inclination to crack open a good book. Or if you were already a voracious bookworm, the shelter-in-place measures around the world due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic means you might have already reread your way through your personal library. In short, now is as good a time as ever to do a bit of book shopping. As many in the food and drink business might be struggling to maintain revenue, your neighborhood bookstore could also likely do with extra support. “I would say everyone should look into what their local store is doing, as we are all scrappy bunch of survivalists and I know many of my colleagues are hard at work inventing their own individual initiatives,” says Josiah Wolfson, co-owner of New York City‘s Aeon Bookstore. Aeon is regularly posting books for sale on Instagram, eBay and its own website, but Wolfson also recommends simply purchasing gift cards from or making donations to your favorite stores. “There is also this foundation which helps bookstore across the nation, and which I believe people can donate towards,” he says. While it may be now tempting to purchase your books in a big haul from Amazon for the sake of convenience, check instead on platforms like Bookshop, which both distrubtes parts of its profits to independent booksellers and maps out indie stores to purchase from directly. For those who prefer listening to books rather than reading them, there’s Libro.fm, which allows you to purchase audiobooks straight from your local bookshops. And even if you don’t have extra funds — or time — to spare on large orders of books, you can support your local sellers simply by interacting with their social media or reaching out to staff for suggestions on what to add to your list. On that last note, we’ve solicited reading recommendations from some of our favorite booksellers and publishers: New York City’s Aeon Bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop and Printed Matter, Montreal‘s Libraire Drawn & Quarterly, and Chicago publishing house Perfectly Acceptable. Read on for their picks of what books to read right now, all of which can be purchased through independent sellers. Aeon Bookstore [The 27 Best Books to Read While Staying Home]( David Park Der Klang Der Familie by Felix Denk and Sven von Thülen Where to buy: [Aeon Bookstore]( for $27 USD If you’re looking for a read that grapples with cultural shifts, this book tracks the history of Berlin‘s dance music and culture following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. “In a time with no clubs and in a time of being disconnected and challenged, it’s inspiring to flip through page after page detailing stories of a flourishing and almost fantastical world that followed a bleak and socially disparate landscape,” Aeon co-owner Josiah Wolfson describes. [READ THE FULL ARTICLE ON HYPEBEAST →]( [HYPEBEAST Features](   [More HYPEBEAST Features]( [[Detailed Look at the Nike Air Fear of God 1 Noir] [FOOTWEAR]( [Detailed Look at the Nike Air Fear of God 1 "Noir"]( [[Studio Visits: Benedict Radcliffe] [ARTS]( [Studio Visits: Benedict Radcliffe]( [logo]( [Get The App Free on iOS and Android]( Follow [facebook]( [instagram]( [youtube]( [twitter]( --------------------------------------------------------------- 2020 HYPEBEAST Limited. All Rights Reserved [Manage Subscriptions]( You are receiving this email because you have subscribed to HYPEBEAST's marketing emails. You can unsubscribe from us any time by clicking [here](=====?utm_source=hb_features&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hb_features_May_02_2020). It may take 48 hours to complete the unsubscribe process. Contact subscription@hypebeast.com for assistance on any enquiries. Our Mailing Address: HYPEBEAST, 10F, KC 100, 100 Kwai Cheong Road, Kwai Chung, Hong Kong