Booksellers & Stationers in Delhi
8 stores · curated ORBIS register
Bahrisons Booksellers carries literature and current releases in Khan Market, with art books and magazines among its other reading material. CMYK Bookstore sells illustrated books on architecture and art, with publications on photography and design also available. Eureka Bookstore focuses on children's books through an independent shop founded in Greater Kailash II, with selection and reading promotion central to its work.
Bahrisons Booksellers is a family-run bookshop in New Delhi's Khan Market, with a history beginning in 1953. Balraj Bahri started the business in post-partition India, and its catalogue now ranges from fiction to specialist non-fiction. Readers can browse children's books as well as titles on subjects such as politics and history through its online shop.
CMYK Bookstore was opened by Kapil and Priya Kapoor of the publisher Roli Books as a shop given over to illustrated titles. The shelves cover art and design, with architecture, photography, fashion titles alongside them. Architectural Digest India called it India's largest retailer of art and design books in 2023. Addresses are listed at Greater Kailash 2 Market and Meharchand Market in New Delhi.
India’s first specialist independent children’s bookstore, set up in April 2003 in Greater Kailash II to select and promote children’s books and bring children and books together.
Faqir Chand opened this Khan Market bookshop in 1951; it is now run by his great-grandson Abhinav Bamhi, the fourth generation behind the counter.
A Delhi independent bookseller and publisher long associated with its Cafe Turtle, Full Circle stocks literature, philosophy and spirituality across its shop and online store. Its landmark Khan Market branch closed in 2020, with the Greater Kailash-1 outlet carrying on.
Left-wing bookstore and cafe in Shadipur, west Delhi, opened in 2012 by LeftWord Books (founded 1999); shares its space with Studio Safdar, the Jana Natya Manch performance venue named for playwright Safdar Hashmi, killed in 1989. Sells progressive titles near cost.
Midland Book Shop in Delhi's Aurobindo Market carries general reading alongside academic and reference books. Its range spans fiction and children's titles as well as subjects such as art and the city's history. The family bookselling history is part of its character, but visitors can use it simply as a place to search across genres or ask about a particular title.
Time Out Delhi (8 Oct 2025): reincarnation of K.D. Singh's 1971 Jor Bagh shop, moved to Lodhi Colony after the 2023 close; curated independent-press and South Asian stock. Vogue India: Sonal Narain and Mahika Chaturvedi still running the Lodhi Colony Market crimson-door walk-in.