I am an academic and seldom I have seen bookstores as rich with their choice of books as Left Bank Books!
May 2024
Left Bank is an institution. The staff is friendly, the shelves are stocked, the location is perfect (right at the entrance to the market). Buy a book for yourself, get another for a prisoner (they heavily support Books To Prisoners, the oldest prison literacy charity in the USA), then walk to the market and catch a flying... read full comment
May 2024
Shop here. Their selection is unmatched. They provide a delightful safe space in the neighbourhood ❤️??
Pike Place Market isn't just fish-throwing and flower bouquets: it's also home to Left Bank Books, a collectively owned and operated anarchist bookstore that sells primarily political and philosophical nonfiction, but also literary fiction, poetry, periodicals, zines, clever T-shirts and posters, and more. They're also active supporters of the Books to Prisoners program which provides free books to prisoners throughout the United States. You won't find bestselling paperbacks here, but they do have general-interest books and a decent selection of used titles.
