Here are the top 10 cities for those who love to read

Reading has ever been a favourite hobby for galore — but wrong nan past fewer years, pinch nan emergence of the social media trend #BookTok, galore newbies person joined nan reference community. 

Lawn Love has announced its database of nan champion cities for book lovers — and immoderate whitethorn look unusual. 

The section care service company created nan database by looking astatine 4 categories: entree to bookstores, libraries, book clubs, and uncommon and ancient bookstores.

Within each category, sub-metrics were evaluated.

Those included bookstores per quadrate mile, number of nationalist libraries, number of ancient and uncommon bookstores and number of book clubs. 

Counting down from 10 to 1, spot if your favourite U.S. metropolis made this apical group for book lovers.

10. San Diego, California

9. Portland, Oregon

8. Washington, DC

7. Houston, Texas

6. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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5. Seattle, Washington

4. Los Angeles, California

3. San Francisco, California

2. Chicago, Illinois

1. New York, New York

New York City classed first successful nan champion cities for book lovers.

That’s acknowledgment to its precocious number of bookstores (571), independent bookstores, nationalist libraries (225), ancient and uncommon bookstores, and publishing houses (134).

Lawn Love noted that while ample cities predominate nan apical 25 spots of nan ranking, assemblage towns specified arsenic New Haven, Connecticut — location to Yale University — classed No. 41. 

Cambridge, Massachusetts — location to Harvard University — classed No. 51 arsenic well. 

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Of nan 500 cities ranked, Rancho Cordova, California, classed past —  following 4 cities successful Utah. 

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