Featherston, New Zealand: 5 Book Towns to Visit. Book lovers are dreamers. We dream of other worlds and other lives. We dream of what we just finished reading and what we’re going to read next. We dream of homes crammed with our book collections, libraries that never close, and cozy local bookshops where we can spend massive quantities of both time and money. And some book lovers dream of entire towns devoted to books and then make them a reality. Did you know there are dozens of book towns around the world (enough that one writer even wrote a book about them)?
Here are five of the towns where you can live your book dreams. Have you been to any book towns? Hay-on-Wye, Wales Probably the best known of all the book towns, and credited with inventing the concept, Hay-on-Wye is home to numerous book and antiques shops. St. A Medieval village, St. Paju Book City, South Korea Located next to the North Korean border, this literal city of books was built to symbolize the importance of the common good. Featherston, New Zealand Hobart, USA Cheers, St. Pierre de Clages, Switzerland.