Escape From Reality At These Orange County Bookstores

Whether it’s a novel for a long trip up or down the coast or a long series of stories you want to curl up with from the comfort of your own home, books are an excellent way to escape into other worlds. While some people listen to music or watch movies, nothing is better than getting pulled into a story through the power of a book. Even with thousands of titles on the internet, turning the pages of a good book comes with a feeling of nostalgia, which is why bookstores are still popular today.

If you’re looking for a novel, a long series, a comic book, or texts about computer programming, there are plenty of local bookstores in the San Juan Capistrano area that you can check out. Below is a list of bookstores you can visit to find your next escape from reality.

Bargain Book World

 Bargain Book World  specializes in selling gently used books. You can find most of its titles in the price range of three to four dollars, meaning you can find excellent stories inexpensively. This bookstore receives new shipments of books every day, so each time you go in, it’s possible to find your old favorites or discover new books to fall in love with. Bargain Book World offers its services in three locations near San Juan Capistrano, meaning if you can’t find something you want at one store, there are two other locations you can explore.

The Shops at Mission Viejo Location: 555 The Shops Blvd., Mission Viejo, CA, 92691

The Shops at Mission Viejo Phone: (949) 545-7214

Outlets at Lake Elsinore Location: 17600 Collier Ave., Lake Elsinore, CA, 92530

Outlets at Lake Elsinore Phone: (951) 291-0136

Brea Mall Location: 2066A Brea Mall, Brea, CA, 92821

Brea Mall Phone: (714) 784-6441

Beach Town Books

Beach Town Books is a new and used bookseller that offers books in every genre and for every age group. Inside the bookstore, you can find aisles to wander through while you search for your next book, coffee to enjoy as you peruse the store’s collection, and comfortable seating locations to enjoy your future reads. Besides its massive selection of books, the store also offers events such as the monthly Writers’ Community, Children’s Reading Circle, Readers’ Happy Hour, and Poetry Hour. With so many excellent options, you can visit every day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., except on holidays.

Location: 99 Avenida Serra, San Clemente, CA, 92672

Phone: (949) 492-1114

Book Carnival

Book Carnival specializes in mysteries, suspense, and author events. It has over 30 years of experience as a local business, and it prides itself on being able to find the books you want and get them to you as soon as possible. Besides the in-store location, Book Carnival offers services for ordering books across the United States and to many locations internationally. It currently runs virtual events in place of in-person events to maintain its traditions. Finally, it hosts a book club once a month and a Shakespeare group that meets on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month.

Location: 348 S. Tustin St., Orange, CA, 92866

Phone: (714) 538-3210

Compass Books

Compass Books is a Christian bookstore that specializes in supplying Bibles, religious scholarship, and religious commentaries. It also offers customers options for home decor, jewelry, and other Christian gifts for you and your family. One of its major draws is keeping Bibles inexpensive for its customers, marking them down below other retailers to ensure that you can access this text. You can visit Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Location: 150 Columbia, Aliso Viejo, CA, 92656

Phone: (949) 297-2650

Corner Bookstore

 Corner Bookstore  is a Christian bookstore that translates the Bible into different languages to make it more accessible to people around the world. For each Bible that it sells to customers, Corner Bookstore buys another one and sends it to locations that need more Bibles. Besides its funding for new Bibles and translations, it also supports several causes through its ministry, which you can support by purchasing books from the store. Corner Bookstore sells Bibles, commentaries, and novels from multiple Christian perspectives for you to read.

Location: 1010 N. Tustin Ave., Santa Ana, CA, 92705

Phone: (714) 973-4800

Laguna Beach Books

Laguna Beach Books is an independent bookstore that specializes in providing its services to the community safely. It allows you to make and pick up orders in-store, on the phone, via email, on its website, and curbside. Besides these services, it offers books for all ages across multiple genres and supports local book clubs with recommendations from its staff and other book clubs. Its mission is to enrich the community with books for everyone. Laguna Beach Books also hosts author events and readings so you can meet and talk to your favorite authors about your oldest and newest favorites.

Location: 1200 S. Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA, 92651

Phone: (949) 494-4779

Mystery Ink Bookstore

Mystery Ink Bookstore is an independent bookstore that opened in 1991. At the bookstore, you can find a wide variety of books such as training manuals, mysteries, novels, long series, and more. The primary focus of Mystery Ink Bookstore is to bring you plenty of author events so you can meet your favorite authors, learn about their upcoming books, and ask questions about how they write the books you love.

Location: 7552 Warner Ave., #101, Huntington Beach, CA, 92647

Phone: (714) 960-4000 and (714) 743-6127

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