Amazing selection and knowledge staff. We said were looking for a new author to read in the style of Murakami and the clerk immediately had several suggestions that panned out great. Highly recommend a visit to East Bay Booksellers!

Super helpful staff and great selection of books, really appreciated how they adapted their book ordering system during covid to make it really easy to pick up orders in front of the store. Highly recommend!

East Bay Booksellers has all the things I love about a bookstore: attentive staff, staff picks sprinkled throughout, shelves you can get lost in, and an art section where you can find little trinkets and writing supplies. I come to bookstores to get lost in possibilities and find stories to dive into. I found all that and more at East Bay Booksellers.

Nice combination of books and Stationery. You can place book orders for pickup.

Theyre so friendly and easy to work with, and they make book ordering and pickup super easy, especially during COVID! You can order everything online, they email you when your order is packaged and ready for pickup, and you just pop in and pick it up! Ditch amazon, support this beloved local bookstore instead 😄

Well-designed, eclectic bookstore in Oakland. Mostly new books but a small selection of magazines and used books available also. (March 2019)

Did you know they also make recommendations based on books you like??? LOVE this bookstore, discovered one of my favorite trilogies thanks to their staff!

Nice selection. Helpful and knowledgeable staff

Excellent place to look at new books, gifts and all things literary. Great readings!

It had a good selection when I looked around had some of the classics and of course newer book. I wouldnt however go for older book. I was causally look to add the Hannibal series by Thomas Harris which I couldnt find on their selves unfortunately. They did offer to order it for me but as I was visiting I wouldnt be there long enough to get it. It had a good selection there were many titles I wrote down to read later.

Another local passionate bookstore. Has a kid section. But is missing a foreign language and a graphic novel section. The store is small but has a magazine section. It is a store without the usual unrelated fluffy items.

Amazing books and selection

Needed a gift support quick! The staff is quite knowledgeable and many were helpful. They also have free giftwrapping which looked very nice. Some bookstores are not as neat and dont look as professional. Dont be fooled by the store front. This is a great sized store with excellent finds!

These people love books. The experience is inevitably curated, as the proprietors are dealing with limited square footage in a high rent district. You should stop by, though, to see what they do. Unusual books about interesting things! They are skewing their demographic toward children, slightly, which is likely good for them.

Wonderful selection and comfortable atmosphere. Will definitely return.

The selection here has been so thoughtfully curated and they truly know their customers. The selection looks deceptively small but they always have exactly what Im looking for from vegetarian/vegan cooking to natural dyes to chart topping popular fiction. This is the kind of place you can go when you dont have anything in mind and leave with a new treasure.

Everyone there is quite lovely and have great knowledge on what kind of books you might be looking for. Always up to customer order a book for you, only takes a few days! Happy to support this book shop. :)

Great little bookstore! Definitely had a local feel to it. Staff was super nice. Would visit again!

Truly a lovely bookstores experience. Interesting staff recommendations, nice browsing layout, lots of cards and gift choices. They will order anything for you and it arrives quickly. Really, buy your books here instead of ordering online ... support a local business and enjoy looking around and discovering something new.

Very helpful, friendly staff. Wonderful store.

If every neighborhood in America had a bookstore like this, with a bit of depth and hand-curated selections, wed all be better off.

Nice, independent bookstore with well-stocked shelves, interesting staff picks, and an ongoing set of author-related events. More than anything, I appreciate the clear signage and intuitive layout of the stores and genres - it’s really easy to find what you’re looking for and at the same time, you’ll likely find a few interesting other books along the way.

They have great pens. The really do.

Independent bookstore staffed by avid readers. Nonfiction, childrens books, art and poetry, recent best sellers. Light open space. Weekly author readings.

A cute, quaint little boutique bookstore in Rockridge. Ive popped in here many times throughout high school to browse the selections. Over the years, theyve updated the organization of the store--the childrens section is much neater now. It used to be much messier and crowded. Lighting has brightened, and even though this is a pretty small bookstore, they still have a decent selection of books, and I can spend quite a while browsing here. They also have couches that you can sit on and read.The staff is also very friendly and knowledgeable. Even if they dont have a book in their store, theyre able to order it for you so that its ready for you to pick up when it arrives. Definitely happy to see this local indie bookstore surviving the recession and remaining a staple in the Rockridge neighborhood.

My favorite bookstore in the East Bay. In the Bay Area overall, its up there with two other really good ones, City Lights and Booksmith.

Found some good books, and the helpful staff ordered a book they didnt have.

Fantastic place to read, relax and buy all things books.

Diesel is a lovely little bookstore with friendly staff and and comfortable places to read and browse for books. I love their literary karaoke and how they arrange similar books in the windows in the front windows; from color to author to books about bunnies and their travels.

Great bookstore, helpful staff, will curated collection and good programs.

Nice balance between indie book store and local friendly spot.

Wonderful store, terrific selection, a place to sit and read. A curious collection of cards too.

Great locally owned bookstore with nice selection and helpful staff reviews.

Always find interesting books here

Ridiculously good selection and a landmark of the indie literary community.

Great kids section.

Great selection from one of the few independent booksellers.

Nice bookstore, could have more foreign language books.

Unique books, best bookstore

Cozy, hip bookstore with a good selection. I like to browse the extensive staff picks to help me select book I might not have otherwise come across.

Great selection and staff

Amazing staff and a wide collection of all genres of books.

One of many great bookstores in Rockridge.

Beautiful shelves of the recent books.

Quaint bookstore, with a nice childrens selection

Great place, great collection and great neighborhood

IF THEY DONT HAVE IT THEYLL ORDER IT OR FIND OUT WHERE ELSE YOU CAN GET IT

Best bookstore in the East Bay at least.

These small bookstores are the best

Great speakers great books

Wow... way expensive and decidedly left-leaning politically tinged titles.

Friendly, but a bit standoffish probably comes with the territory...

Don’t like bookstores that don’t like kids

A good neighborhood bookstore.

If you cant find what youre looking for, the staff will certainly find it for you.

Great selection.

Staff recommendations are great

Poor selection at way, way high prices.

Poor selection, way too expensive

They have used books!

Great bookstore