The Best Little Used Bookstore in California

This bookstore isn't in Hollywood. It's 75 miles to the west in Ojai, California. So it's a day trip. But it's a great day trip. You can sit on the beach in Ventura first, then drive the 16 miles north to Ojai and make the bookstore your first stop in the pretty little town of Ojai. Part New Age, part agricultural orange-growing valley, Ojai has one of the best used bookstores I've ever been to.

It's called Bart's Books. 

The books here are all great. No worthless dieting books or trashy celebrity biographies for 50 cents. They've got everything you could ask for, the selection gleaned by the owners who really know good books.

They're very reasonable, usually $6 to $8 for a paperback and many hardbacks. In very good condition.

And everything is neatly shelved in alphabetical order by section, so there's no rummaging through piles of books on floors to find that book you need. And almost all of it is outdoors. Cool.

Use the link above for the address, or just ask in town where to find the bookstore. Everyone in town knows where they are.

For more information, see this longer blog I posted on my website: Truly Lost in the Cosmos