What other neighborhood, besides Hyde Park, can sustain three serious bookstores? Powell’s Books Chicago embodies Hyde Park, and is one of the very best used bookstores in the country. You can find books covering every subset of every imaginable subject, along with beautiful and rare first editions kept in glass cabinets. If you can’t find a good book at Powell’s, you may not find a good book anywhere. Breathe deep; it even smells the way a bookstore should smell.