Chaucer's Books

A Santa Barbara treasure

Independent bookstores are a dwindling breed. It was so exciting to see Chaucer’s still going strong for so many years, as we moved from the area over 20 years ago. There are many local books availabl...

Sunday NYT weekend WSJ Puzzles

Only place in Santa Barbara county to get Sunday New York Times and Wall Street Journal weekend edition. Great book and puzzle selection

Awesome Local Bookstore

My children and I love hanging out at Chaucer's. It has such a nice warm atmosphere and besides the awesome books, it has cool little gifts, journals, stationery, etc. It is fun to just browse around....

Clean, quiet, and a lot of books to browse

I could easily spend a whole day in this bookstore and still not want to leave. It is not very large and I only saw new books (no used books for sale) - but the selection and organization was nice and...

Amazing bookstore

Great bookstore. Not massive, but I was able to find topics that I haven’t seen in bookstores for ages. Our kids loved it too.