Discover three floors of English-language books at the American Book Center

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American Book Center

Medieval Centre & Red Light District


Rambling over three storeys, this excellent bookshop is the biggest source of English-language books in Amsterdam. Its greatest strengths are in the artsy ground-floor department, but on the upper floors there's fiction and oodles of special-interest titles, plus a good travel section. It also stocks foreign publications such as the New York Times and top-notch postcards.


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