If you're in the Bay Area and like visiting bookstores that have been around awhile, there are quite a few good ones here: * Bell's books, Palo Alto, ~89 yr. [

If you're in the Bay Area and like visiting bookstores that have been around awhile, there are quite a few good ones here: * Bell's books, Palo Alto, ~89 yr. [1] * Moe's books, Berkeley, 65 yr. [2] * Green Apple Books, SF, 57 yr. [3] * City Lights, SF, 71 yr. [4] * Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, 57 yr. [5] * Feldman books, Menlo Park, ~25 yr. [6] * Borderlands, SF, 27 yr. [7] * Friends of the Palo Alto Library (Fopal), Palo Alto, ~54 yr, [8]. This is a used book sale (2nd weekend of every month) and not a bookstore per se, but it gets a special mention because of the price and breadth of books/topics. Esp. good for technical books (I have a $2 hardcover CLRS from here) - these are hard to find elsewhere. Los Altos library also conducts a pretty big sale, but that's not as frequent. I'm sure I am missing some! [1] https://www.bellsbooks.com/about https://www.bellsbooks.com/about [2] https://www.moesbooks.com/ https://www.moesbooks.com/ [3] https://www.greenapplebooks.com/store-history https://www.greenapplebooks.com/store-history [4] https://citylights.com/our-story/a-short-history-of-city-lights/ https://citylights.com/our-story/a-short-history-of-city-lig... [5] https://www.recyclebookstore.com/about https://www.recyclebookstore.com/about [6] https://www.feldmansbooks.net/home https://www.feldmansbooks.net/home [7] https://borderlands-books.com/v2/about/history/ https://borderlands-books.com/v2/about/history/ [8] https://www.fopal.org/history https://www.fopal.org/history Edit: added fopal.