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Books Inc.

317 Castro St, Mountain View, CA 94041, USA
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Books Inc. in downtown Mountain View is a straightforward, general-interest bookstore on Castro Street, right in the middle of the main restaurant and shopping strip. The space feels bigger than it looks from outside, with organized sections for new releases, fiction, nonfiction, kids and young adult titles, plus displays of staff picks and sale books.

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There are also puzzles, games, and small gift items scattered near the front and around the children’s area. The shop keeps regular daily hours and is usually open into the evening, so most events happen after work hours when the store is still busy with casual browsers.

Events here are frequent and tend to be low-key. Regular in-store book clubs include a Speculative Fiction Book Club that tackles titles like Robert Jackson Bennett’s “The Tainted Cup,” the All Things Romance Book Club, and the Happy Bookers group, which recently read “Hemlock and Silver” by T. Kingfisher. Meetings typically use a corner or small section of the store, with chairs pulled together rather than a closed-off room, so conversations happen alongside regular customer traffic. In addition to book clubs, the store hosts periodic author readings and signings, which use a similar flexible setup.

The shop is part of a small Bay Area chain of independent bookstores that has been operating in the region since the early 1850s and is often cited as the oldest bookseller in the western United States. The Mountain View location fits into that history as a neighborhood branch, serving the Old Mountain View area with a steady schedule of events and a standard mix of contemporary bestsellers and backlist titles.

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