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Bookstore shopping in Los Angeles

  1. A

    Hennessy + Ingalls

    With its sleek shelves, snappy organization and eye-catching titles, Hennessey + Ingalls exudes a palpable cool. Approaching its 50th birthday, this indie favorite – which is dedicated to art and architecture – stocks everything from coffee-table books and fashion retrospectives to landscaping how-to tomes. If you happen to be looking for a gift for that hard-to-please artist in your life, this is the place to start.

    reviewed

  2. B

    Larry Edmunds Bookshop

    Every movie and TV book imaginable is crammed – sometimes haphazardly – onto the narrow shelves at this friendly shop that’s been around for 60 years. For everything from Kung Fu cinema to X-Files minutiae to Syd Field’s screenwriting tomes, look here first.

    reviewed

  3. C

    Bodhi Tree

    Here since 1970, this cosy cottage of enlightenment carries an impressively broad range of spiritual-minded books – Buddhism, Christianity, astrology, shamanism – that’s attractive to students and dabblers alike. Psychic readings offered daily.

    reviewed