Longfellow Books topped the best bookstore category in this year's "100 Best of Portland" list from the Portland Phoenix, which noted: "Here's the news from this comfortable, friendly, expert-staffed bookstore: Every First Friday, these bibliophiles host a Community Night, a simple gathering of all of us who feel that the policies of the current administration go against this country's true principles. This is from their explanation: 'We refuse to silently allow policies to be put in place that marginalize segments of our society for the sake of a nationalistic foreign and domestic policy.' Do you think the big and nonsensical bookstores have that kind of calm courage? Longfellow Books does."