Bookworks
667 Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove, (831) 372‑2242 bookworkspg.com
This Pacific Grove haunt knows books – all books – better than most. The staff and customers know that in the turn of a page you sense the author’s presence. John Steinbeck once encouraged writers to “write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.” That’s what you feel at Bookworks. While many observers decry the end of the book in our electronic age, no such attitude is afoot here. And don’t miss the killer coffee shop that is adjacent.