On the Southern Literary Trail discussion

Hello, Everyone. Hope you are all enjoying the April spring.

I am traveling to the Phoenix area next week on business and will have some time available to check out some bookstores. Does anyone have a recommendation for used bookstores?

Thanks,
-Steve

If you like discount used books, try Book Off which has a location in Mesa (a Phoenix suburb). They have some decent paperbacks for as low as $1 each.

Changing Hands is THE independent bookstore in the Phoenix area. They have some used and new, though it’s not a place to search for inexpensive books. Tempe is their original location (and has loads of good food options in the same strip mall), but they opened a second location in Phoenix proper about 10 years ago now that also has the First Draft Bar inside of it. It’s a delightful bookstore and one of the things I miss greatly from living there once we returned to the south.

I’d also suggest heading into the Downtown and South Mountain branches of the local library, as the buildings themselves are exquisite.