The best bookshops New York (Manhattan)

The Barnes & Noble chain, café where you can take a latte latte while you flip magazines and last novels.

There are also very nice maps, calendars, custom calendars, small books and in some branches a specialized music radius (CD and books).

Gibert multiplied by ten. Present at university campuses in New York and surrounding areas, it is the empire of publishing and distributing students'books at reduced prices. A discount on the best sellers from the New York Times list.

Science fiction in all its states. Recent editions and antiques, comic strips…

Marble entrance, chandeliers, wooden panels: for years, Rizzoli, the Italian publishing house, has been exhibiting one of the city's most elegant showcases in this street of New York Peace, to such an extent that it has become a real institution. She is known for her books of art, photography, dance, music and literature (many foreign authors). On the third and fourth floors, there is also a department of paperbacks, Italian-language books and a gallery selling works of art.

Not really a bookstore, but a point of sale that offers all American magazines and specialized magazines, or more than 3 000 available publications, in a space not larger than that of a regular newspaper dealer.

A good selection of guides and maps, but especially gadgets for travellers (alarm clock, bivoltage apparatus, etc.).

Originally, a small boutique known for its rare book stock for children and which, after considerably expanded, partially transported its wonders in a large space. For all the little Alice… and their brothers.

Since the opening of this French bookstore in 2014, New York's Francophiles and Francophones have been delighted. Even if you don't have a book to buy, Albertine is worth a visit for its absolutely magnificent premises, in the old buildings of the cultural services of the French Embassy in the United States. The space was designed by the famous architect Jacques Garcia on the model of the beautiful French-style private libraries. The bookshop offers more than 14,000 French works in original or translated versions.

An Upper East Side institution, Argosy is New York's oldest independent bookseller. Founded in 1925, it occupies all six floors of this beautiful townhouse on 59th Street. The bookstore specializes in first and rare editions as well as antique maps. Many famous Americans have shopped there, from Jackie Kennedy and former President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Michael Jackson and Grace Kelly. Come in just to take a look at the elegant antique interior.