Books·Posted on Jul 17, 201349 Breathtaking Libraries From All Over The WorldLibraries so stunning you probably won't get much reading done.by Matt OrtileBuzzFeed StaffLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. Library of Congress — Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 2. Royal Portuguese Reading Room — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 3. Reading Room at La Sorbonne — Paris, France 4. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University — New Haven, Conn. 5. Codrington Library at Oxford University — Oxford, England 6. Trinity College Library at University of Dublin — Dublin, Ireland 7. National Library of Belarus — Minsk, Belarus 8. Balme Library at the University of Ghana — Accra, Ghana 9. General Library at University of Coimbra — Coimbra, Portugal 10. Suzzallo Library at University of Washington, Seattle — Seattle, Wash. 11. Philological "Brain" Library at the Free University — Berlin, Germany 12. Geisel Library at University of California, San Diego — San Diego, Calif. 13. Library at the Benedictine Monastery of Admont — Admont, Austria 14. Library at Pontifical Lateran University — Rome, Italy 15. Library of the Canadian Parliament — Ottawa, Canada 16. Stuttgart City Library — Stuttgart, Germany 17. National Library of France — Paris, France 18. New York Public Library — New York, N.Y. 19. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at University of Toronto — Toronto, Canada 20. Joe & Rika Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago — Chicago, Ill. 21. Jose Vasconcelos Library — Mexico City, Mexico 22. Frederick Thompson Memorial Library at Vassar College — Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 23. Central Library at National Autonomous University of Mexico — Mexico City, Mexico 24. Library at the Royal Seat of San Lorenzo de El Escorial — San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain 25. Harper Memorial Library at University of Chicago — Chicago, Ill. 26. Seattle Central Library — Seattle, Wash. 27. Library of the Dutch Parliament — The Hague, Netherlands 28. Beitou Branch of the Taipei Public Library — Taipei, Taiwan 29. Misr University for Science and Technology Library — 6th of October City, Egypt 30. Villanueva Public Library — Villanueva, Colombia 31. Los Angeles Central Library — Los Angeles, Calif. 32. Kanazawa Umimirai Library — Kanazawa City, Japan 33. Galway Mayo Institute Of Technology Library — Galway, Ireland 34. Library at Pompeu Fabra University — Barcelona, Spain 35. Library at Delft University of Technology — Delft, Netherlands 36. József Attila Study and Information Centre at University of Szeged — Szeged, Hungary 37. Library at Catholic University of Leuven — Flanders, Belgium 38. Bishan Public Library — Singapore 39. Library at Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology — Kedah, Malaysia 40. Connemara Public Library — Chennai, India 41. The Royal Danish Library — Copenhagen, Denmark 42. Vatican Library — Vatican City 43. Library of Alexandria — Alexandria, Egypt 44. Central Public Library — Vancouver, Canada 45. Central Library at Cairo University — Cairo, Egypt 46. Sendai Mediatheque — Sendai, Japan 47. Butler Library at Columbia University — New York, N.Y. 48. Library at Utrecht University — Utrecht, Netherlands 49. George Peabody Library at Johns Hopkins University — Baltimore, Md.