Eso Won Books, an independent bookstore located at 4327 Degnan Boulevard in the Historic Leimert Park Village neighborhood of South Los Angeles, was one of the largest Black-owned bookstores in the United States.

[1] Eso Won Books was an 1,800-sq-ft bookstore with an inventory mix of African-American classic and contemporary titles, including a children's section.

Eso Won Books started in the summer of 1988 in Los Angeles.

[2][4] James Fugate and Tom Hamilton, founders and co-owners, said their goal was to sell books at community events, such as the Los Angeles Times Book Fair, and be "seen as not just a Black bookstore for Black people, but a Los Angeles bookstore in which everyone is welcome.

"[2] Eso Won Books hosted author signings with Muhammad Ali and his biographer Howard Bingham, historian Yosef Ben-Jochannan, Octavia Butler, John Henrik Clarke, Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., poet Nikki Giovanni, Berry Gordy, Jr., Patti LaBelle, Wynton Marsalis, Gloria Naylor, Sonia Sanchez, Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichal), and Alice Walker.