City Lights is one of my favorite bookstores anywhere, and I feel its fiction collection is second to none. There are a handful of novels I use to judge how br

City Lights is one of my favorite bookstores anywhere, and I feel its fiction collection is second to none. There are a handful of novels I use to judge how broad (and good) a bookstore's fiction collection is. Hermann Broch's Sleepwalkers, Robert Musil's A Man Without Qualities, and Witold Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke. I would say 90 percent of the bookstores out there would not have any of these three books in stock, and certainly not Barnes & Noble. The last time I checked, City Lights had all three in stock.