Four book and stationery listings serve Hillcrest and Mission Hills in 92103, including independent used bookstores on Fifth Avenue and the neighborhood's public library branch that anchors literary life on the west side of the ZIP code.
3817 Fifth Ave, San Diego, CA 92103
+1 619-296-1424
Verified925 W Washington St, San Diego, CA 92103
+1 619-782-7541
Verified215 W Washington St, San Diego, CA 92103
+1 619-692-4910
Verified1627 University Ave, San Diego, CA 92103
+1 619-294-8455
VerifiedBluestocking Books on Fifth Avenue is one of Hillcrest's longest-running independent bookshops, handling used and new titles across fiction, nonfiction, and local San Diego interest. Footnote Books operates as a second independent bookshop in the neighborhood, rounding out the bricks-and-mortar book retail side of 92103. Independent bookstores in Hillcrest draw the neighborhood's large population of academics, creative professionals, and UC San Diego medical faculty living in walkable Uptown housing.
The Mission Hills-Hillcrest/Knox Branch Library is the neighborhood's San Diego Public Library branch, housed in Mission Hills as part of the city library system with book lending, public computers, children's story time, and community meeting rooms. The adjacent Library Shop Mission Hills handles the Friends of the Library used-book sales that fund branch programming. The subcategory sits inside the shopping parent of 88 listings. Readers sometimes cross into North Park for additional independent bookshops.
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