Third Place Books, Neighbor

Third Place Books is a general interest bookstore located in the Lake Forest Park Town Centre with over 200,000 New, Used, and Bargain Books. We are a deliberate and perservering creation of a community based around books and the ideas inside them. We're a fun, comfortable, and safe place to browse, linger, lounge, relax, read, eat, laugh, play, talk, listen, and just watch the world go by.

Sociologist Ray Oldenberg suggests that each of us needs three places: first is the home; second is the workplace or school; and beyond lies the place where people from all walks of life interact, experiencing and celebrating their commonality as well as their diversity. It is a third place. In his celebrated book, The Great Good Place, Oldenberg discusses how the cafes, pubs, town squares and other gathering places make a community stronger and bring people together.