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Fans gather to commemorate the closing of Dutton's Books in Brentwood. LA Observed photo
The shuttering of bookstores has been a perpetual story for the entire time I have been doing LA Observed. At any given time, the site's Books and Author's page has at least one post about another store stumbling or going down. At least it seems that way. Readers of the site used to get suitably upset by each new disappearance of a popular community bookseller. Now they just seem resigned.
Here's a listing of all the bookstore closings in the Los Angeles area that we have covered at LA Observed. A shrine of sorts. I really hope this particular list will stop growing. Note that we may have missed some, and this doesn't include old favorites (Pickwick Bookshop! Hunter's Books!) that vanished before LA Observed came on the scene.
All of our posts about book publishing and writers are featured on the Books and Authors page. There's also a link there to the entire archive on the subject going back ten years.
Closed stores (in alphabetical order.)
Acres of Books
Barnes & Noble Westside
Barnes & Noble Encino
Barnes & Noble Woodland Hills
Bodhi Tree
Bookie Joint
Borders Books
Cliff's Books
Cook's Library
Dawson's Books
A Different Light
Dutton's Beverly Hills
Dutton's Brentwood Books
Dutton's North Hollywood
Equator Books
Heritage Book Shop
Latitude 33
Metropolis Books
Midnight Special
Mystery Bookstore
Mysteries to Die For
Portrait of a Bookstore
Samuel French (Valley)
Village Books
Williams' Book Store
Wilshire Books
