Haunted Burrow Books

Seattle, WA.

Haunted Burrow Books is a small bookstore that specializes in horror, fantasy, sci-fi, and occult books. As a member of the Horror Writers Association and a part of Seattle’s literary community, the owner is excited to host book clubs, writing critique groups, and write-ins at the store as well as stock books written and published by local authors and small presses.

You can find the store at 430 15th Ave E., Seattle 98112 and on Instagram @hauntedburrowbooks.

Third Place Books – Lake Forest Park

Lake Forest Park, WA.

Welcome to Third Place Books

Third Place Books is the deliberate and intentional creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. Founded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, we opened a store in the Ravenna neighborhood of Seattle in 2002, and another in the Seward Park neighborhood in 2016. Third Place Books is a general interest bookstore with over 200,000 new, used, and bargain books in Lake Forest Park and over 40,000 books in Ravenna. It is a fun, comfortable, and safe place to browse, linger, lounge, relax, read, eat, laugh, play, talk, listen, and just watch the world go by.

Why Third Place?

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. 

A Public Commons at Lake Forest Park

With a large public commons, three restaurants, free wireless internet, a community room, a stage, and over one thousand free public events every year, Third Place Books has something for everyone. Whether you need to study, host a community meeting, or get out of the house for the evening, we hope you will make this your third place.

Events and the public area within Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park are managed by a community organization, Friends of Third Place Commons, and supported by Third Place Books, the City of Lake Forest Park, and the merchants and management of the Town Center at Lake Forest Park. For more information about this group or to schedule a community event, please visit the Friends of Third Place Commons web site.