If this blog were more popular, I wouldn’t give this one away. While there are many wonderful bookstores in Portland, my favorite place to buy books in Portland is not a bookstore at all, but rather the Goodwill on Grand St. The prices are relatively low ($3.50 for a used paperback is f—— ridiculous, but it’s still better than Powell’s), but most importantly, whatever employee organizes their books is a genius. The classics section is four shelves–you can browse through it all in fifteen minutes and get an incredible overview of English literature. They also seperate hardback fiction from paperbacks, so if you’re cheap like me you don’t have to see all those hardback titles that you don’t want to spring for. Their non-fiction organization is great, too. My brother Dave has an obsession with birds and he found a single shelf devoted to them, chock full of old prints.
My Favorite Place to Buy Books in Portland
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