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1117 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz California | (831) 427-5100 | Sun-Thurs: 10-10; Fri, Sat: 10-11

On March 1, the City of Santa Cruz implemented fees for the parking lot located behind Logos. We want to hear your opinions, suggestions and concerns about this new plan (plus, pass along some useful information).

WHO WOULDN'T LOVE A LOGOS GIFT CARD?
We offer gift cards in any denomination good on any item in our store. And there is no charge to send your gift card!
Visit our Gift Card page to order.

We strongly recommend you make an appointment to sell us your books, music, or DVDs.
Simply call (831) 427-5100 X 6 and one of our buyers will set up a day and time for you to come in. This assures that your books, music or DVDs get the attention they deserve.
Check out the How We Buy page for more information.

The largest independent used book & music store on the central coast of California. Before Ebay, before Amazon, there was LOGOS doing it better for over 40 years. The best of the best in new and used books, music and more...

News This Week (November 13th)

Are words more powerful after they’ve been banned? What would Mick Jagger say about Life? See and read a sampling of images and excerpts from Jonathan Lethem’s new book on the film The Live. Watch a short film adapted from Joe Meno’s What is Your Favorite War? Watch Ron Charles review the five National... »

As comic books increasingly draw both mainstream attention and “literary” cred, I sometimes hear it said: ” I love comics, but certainly not superhero comics!” If so, suit yourself – but in my humble opinion, there has never been a better time to be... »

Comic Books Based on Nintendo Games. Any Questions?

Today was another in a long line of regular reminders of why I love working at a used bookstore. Aside from being surrounded by co-workers that I’m constantly learning from and having fun with, there’s that glaringly obvious perk of being in a position... »

Logos has FIVE free passes to see The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest!

Attention Logos Shoppers! Logos has FIVE free passes to see the The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest! First FIVE people to come in and ask at the Buyer’s... »

News This Week (November 6th)

Gabriel Garca Mrquez is writing a new novel. The Walking Dead premiere was the most watched show in AMC history. Leonardo Di Caprio will star in the film adaptation... »

Signed Rudy Rucker First Edition Hardcovers In Stock!

Downstairs at Logos, in our beloved Large Format Fantasy/Science Fiction section, we feature a veritable windfall of SIGNED FIRST EDITION Rudy Rucker titles. Rucker, father of the Cyberpunk/Transrealist literay... »

News This Week (October 30th)

Jonathan Franzen visits the President. Jonathan Franzen talks about writing The Corrections. Watch Jonathan Franzen talk about “the throbbing anxiety of America’s liberal left”. Nicole Richie takes on Jonathan... »

Charles Burns – X’ed Out

I’ve been anxiously waiting for Charles Burns’ X’ed Out since an issue of “The Believer” reproduced a single page of this first installment of an ongoing hallucinatory epic that... »

News This Week (October 23rd)

Google is adapting their translation technology for poetry. A lost unpublished Dr Seuss manuscript is found. Vintage will publish classics with 3-D covers. Judy Blume’s son will take her... »

2011 Slingshot Planners are here!

2011 Slingshot planners are here! Slingshot is a quarterly, independent, radical, newspaper published in the East Bay since 1988 by the Slingshot Collective. Their fantastic planners come in two... »

News This Week (October 16th)

The unpublished Stieg Larsson novel might make The Millennium Quintet Minus One. A book thrown at President Obama was a poor marketing strategy, not a threat. Co-owner of Politics... »

5 NEW Loading Zones In Front of Logos!

That’s right! There are now 5 metered 20 minute parking spaces in front of Logos for loading and unloading books. Metered costs are 5 for 4 minutes, 10 for... »

Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature: Listen to his comments about winning the prize. Everything you need to know about him. See his life in pictures.... »

Play edible Scrabble with Cheez-Its! See some old Portuguese paperback covers. James Franco picks his favorite poems. Shel Silverstein’s secret, raunchy recordings. A private company takes over some Oregon... »

Signed William Gibson Books Are Here!

Ever since the release of Zero History we have been waiting for the case of signed copies we ordered to come in. Well, GOOD NEWS EVERYBODY! They are finally... »