Try to visit this gem of a bookstore on a weekday so you can wander the store (especially the poetry corner on the third floor) and enjoy the quiet while you read. Great selection and make sure you check out the basement and all the nooks and crannies. Great location and perfect place to take anyone visiting SA for the first time.

This is no longer a bookstore. Chapman university bought it and turned it into a community literacy center. This needs to be updated.

This is an airy, quiet, aesthetically pleasing reading room with plenty of tables to work at as well as some comfy reading chairs dotted around.

The best place and my favorite placr

Librería Martínez, a bookstore in Santa Ana that grew out of reading activist Rueben Martinez’s downtown barbershop, has ceased sales and will become a community cultural and education center, according to officials with Chapman University.

I really love the books being sold here. They exhibit and let the costumers open the books and the staff is friendly and helpful. I’ll be beginning my book-wormy journey here!

Excellent.