Category: AFK-Approved Lists

Atlanta doesn’t do boring bookstores. We’ve got indie havens, radical zine dens, traveling bookmobiles, and now—one of the slickest coffee-meets-culture concepts in the city: Read Shop by The Merchant.

Atlanta has no shortage of bookstores, but every so often you stumble into one that makes you question your entire definition of what a bookstore is. Enter Kinokuniya, Johns Creek’s literary-and-lifestyle wonderland—a place as sprawling as a Barnes & Noble, but cooler, more colorful, and infinitely more Instagrammable.