BEST BOOKSTORES IN CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST

Best Bookstores is an exhaustive guide to bookshops in California and the West, with an eye for the surprising and offbeat. Based on Alta’s popular print and web series, this updated, stand-alone volume is packed with recommendations from the magazine’s editors, contributors, and readers. It’s all here. Alta’s favorite comic shop in San Francisco. A far-out sci-fi seller in the Mojave Desert. A labyrinthine store in a former bank in downtown Los Angeles. Seattle’s best antiestablishment bookseller. And more. PRAISE FOR BEST BOOKSTORES “At long last, a guide to paradise for West Coast booklovers. With these wonderful, beautiful pages in your hands, you can wander the highways and wander the stacks, discovering great reads and meeting passionate booksellers from Seattle to San Diego.”—Héctor Tobar, author of Our Migrant Souls and The Barbarian Nurseries “Alta’s guide is so beautifully assembled, so comprehensive, and full of narrative about bookstores, their locations, and their own st