Amazing bookstore with the best decor and very friendly staff! I was sad they were out of the book selection I wanted but that’s ok! Great anarchist bookstore with a decent Black Studies selection too!!
December 2023
Interesting little bookstore right by the start of the Market. It's packed full of unique and hard to find books. Books on political and social interests are in the forefront, leftist slant. They still require masks, but it's a pretty small, old space. Cool stop, wish it was a little bigger.
December 2023
Awesome selection of zines and lefty books!All the people who are complaining in the reviews about having to wear a mask need to chill. If you don’t want to wear one, nobody is making you enter this bookstore! If you want to go in, be considerate of other people and wear a mask. Not difficult.
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.