Bailey-Coy Books is the perfect independent bookstore for Capital Hill. They have a ton of classic and new fiction, non-fiction, and an extensive gay and lesbian section. Their fiction includes many more obscure titles and most of the works of younger contemporary authors such as Dave Eggers, Michael Chabon, Zadie Smith, etc. Each shelf has employee's picks which are helpful in finding something new, and the taste's of the employee's seems to be dead on as far as my tastes go. They have a lot of new fiction cheap, and also have hard to find collections such as McSweeney's Quarterly. Any hipster would be perfectly at home in Bailey-Coy.
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