Book Soup
Finding it
Book Soup is in Departures in Terminal 7 near Gates 70-88 at Los Angeles International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.
- Nearest gates
- Gates 70-88
Terminal 7 has 10 places to eat and 6 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 4am.
Hours against the security queue
Across the week, LAX security runs longest around 12pm at a median of 20 minutes, and lightest around 1am at 2 minutes.
Queue figures are medians from FlyIndex's LAX wait-time record, not a live reading.
About this location
In Terminal 7's departures area, this Book Soup shares its row with Bartel's Harley-Davidson, a DFS Duty Free counter and a Hudson News, putting books next to motorcycle gear rather than a second newsstand. It opens at 5am, ahead of the terminal's first departures, and closes at 11pm. LAX's other Book Soup is the Great Hall shop in Terminal B; that one keeps later hours and sits among luxury boutiques instead of a duty-free-and-apparel mix, so the two serve different concourses entirely.
Other options in Terminal 7
All past the same checkpoint, so you can reach them without clearing security again.
Sources
- LAX Terminal 7 Information | LAX — Los Angeles International Airport, checked 2026-09-07
Official Travel Resources
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