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2004 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE
A place where the bookstore, cafe, and restaurant genuinely talk to each other—you can settle in with coffee and a paperback, or stay for dinner and actually want to keep talking to the people at the next table.
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2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Someone who actually reads paper books and doesn't mind getting lost in the stacks will find a thoughtful selection here, the kind of place where the staff remembers what you were looking for last month.
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5015 Connecticut Ave NW
Staffers here actually read the books they're hand-selling, and the author events draw the kind of crowds that remind you why independent bookstores still matter in this city.
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5627 Columbia Pike
If you read Arabic or want to learn it, this spot on Columbia Pike stocks the titles and reference materials you actually need—literature, philosophy, children's books, religious texts—plus the cultural goods that are hard to find elsewhere in the area.
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