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Favorite bookstores57th Street Books, 871 Fine Arts, After Word Books, Argosy Book Store, Atlantic Bookshop, Atticus Books, Bibliomania, Black Oak Books - Berkeley, Black Swan Books, Bolerium Books, Book Culture, Booklegger's Used Books, Bookman's Alley, Bookworks, Brattle Book Shop, Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Builder's Booksource, Cartesian Bookstore, Chicago Rare Book Center, City Lights Bookstore, Commonwealth Books, Green Apple Books, Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Hackenberg Booksellers, Harvard Book Store, Harvard University Press Display Room, Jeff Maser, Bookseller, Labyrinth Books New Haven, Lame Duck Books, Lucy Parsons Center, McIntyre and Moore Booksellers, McNally Jackson Booksellers - New York City, Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Moe's Books, Museum Shop of the Art Institute of Chicago, Myopic Books, O'Gara and Wilson, Booksellers, Pegasus Books, Pegasus Downtown, Pendragon Books, Powell's - Burnham Park, Powell's - Hyde Park, Powell's - North Lakeview, Prairie Avenue Bookshop, Printers Row Fine & Rare Books, Ravenswood Used Books, Schoenhof's Foreign Books, Selected Works Used Books and Sheet Music, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Serendipity Books, Shakespeare & Co. Books, Strand Bookstore, The Gallery Bookstore Ltd., Turtle Island Book Shop, Twelfth Street Books, Unabridged Bookstore, University Press Books, William Stout Architectural Books

Favorite librariesArt Institute of Chicago - Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, Berkeley Public Library - Central Library, Boston Public Library (Central Library, Copley Square), British Library, Doe Library - UC Berkeley, Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Howison Philosophy Library - UC Berkeley, New York Public Library - Humanities and Social Sciences Library, New York University - The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, Stevenson Library, Bard College, University of Chicago - Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago - William Rainey Harper Library

About meI'm a professor of political theory at the University of Chicago and a compulsive maker of lists. I probably spend more time reading books than pursuing them, but just barely.

About my library• Mostly a working scholarly library, centered on the humanities and humanistic social sciences, especially political theory and political science, philosophy, Marxism and critical social theory, modern European and American history, radical politics, classics and ancient history, Judaica, literary theory and criticism, and art history. Also includes the expected assortment of novels, poetry, cookbooks, travel guides, and other merit badges of the late modern bourgeoisie.

• What I'm collecting these days: neglected classics of twentieth-century social and political thought in early editions; Arendtiana; runs of some leftish political and literary and periodicals. And anything else I can't resist.

• Turn-ons: crisp text printed from metal type, decent gutters, sewn bindings, handfeel. Turn-offs: digitally printed books, paperbacks longer than 300 pages or so. Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci.

• Nope, I haven't read them all.

• The library was founded in 1987, when Leslie Lipson, then a professor emeritus of Political Science at Berkeley who was teaching my freshman seminar, handed me a couple of spare desk copies of good books that he had lying around his office and said: "I assume you'll be starting a library?"

• With the advent of LibraryThing Local, much of my list of "sources" has moved on up to "favorite bookstores," above. But that's mostly limited to bookstores that still exist. So...

In memoriam: Acorn Books (San Francisco), Arlington Books (Arlington, MA), Avenue Victor Hugo (Boston), Berkeley Book Consortium (Berkeley), The Bookcase (Cambridge, MA), The Bookcellar (Cambridge, MA), Canterbury Books (Cambridge, MA), Cody's Books (Telegraph Avenue, Fourth Street, and Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, and Union Square in San Francisco, which was a crappy idea to begin with), Columbus Books (San Francisco), Ex Libris (Chicago), Holmes Books (Oakland), House of Sarah Books (Cambridge, MA), Pangloss, in its various forms (Cambridge and Boston, MA), Rain Dog Books (Chicago), Starr Book Shop (Cambridge, MA, though I think Mark still sells books online), and Wordsworth (Cambridge, MA).

• What? I warned you about the lists.

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Real namePatchen Markell

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