City Lights Booksellers on “Bookstores worth the bus ride”, a list by Priya Anand on TheLysts.

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Name
City Lights Booksellers
Neighborhood
North Beach
Address
261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133
City
San Francisco
Specialty
Poetry, literary fiction, Beat-era history
Best For
Out-of-town friends who want the postcard version of SF reading culture
My take
Touristy, sure, but the poetry room upstairs is quiet in a way that resets my brain.