4 Best Places to Shop in Napa and Sonoma, California

In addition to magazines and best-selling books, this store, part of a local indie chain, stocks a wide selection of cookbooks.

Check the Napa page on this indie chain's website for local authors' readings and signings while you're in town.

An indie new-and-used shop with a café, Napa Bookmine often hosts author events. Specialties include children's and teen titles, wine books, and works by local writers.

The “Locals Picks” shelf of this sliver of a store selling current-release fiction and nonfiction will clue you in to what its literate regulars find compelling.