Booksellers & Stationers in Munich
8 stores · curated ORBIS register
Buchhandlung Lentner combines Munich bookshops with an online catalogue, allowing readers to order books for collection at a branch. The bookseller also provides separate shop contacts for requests, giving readers a way to ask about a particular title. Glatteis specialises in crime fiction in the Gärtnerplatzviertel, with regional Alpine mysteries and author readings among its offers.
Clemens Bellut runs this independent bookshop on the Kornmarkt, stocking curated philosophy, poetry, art and science titles rather than mass-market fiction. The shop doubles as a space for readings and conversation and publishes a twice-yearly literary journal, Die Wiederholung.
Buchhandlung Lentner has sold books in Munich for over 328 years and runs its online catalogue of some four million titles alongside branches at Marienplatz, in Haidhausen and in Neubiberg. Customers can order online for next-day collection, and each shop lists its own phone line for special book requests.
Munich's dedicated crime-fiction bookshop, at Corneliusstrasse 31 in the Gartnerplatzviertel; operating since 2000, it stocks mystery and crime titles, plus regional Alpine crime fiction, and regularly hosts author readings.
This Marienplatz café sits inside a branch of Hugendubel, the German bookstore chain that has traded since 1893 and remains family-run five generations later. Alongside books, it offers coffee, reading areas, and tolino e-readers.
An independent children’s book, toy and craft-supply shop focused on durable and sustainable products. A Schwabing institution operating since 1956.
Trading since 1698, when Johann Hibler founded the shop later renamed for Joseph Lentner, who took it over in 1784, this Munich bookstore was named a royal Bavarian court supplier in 1897 and today occupies the ground floor of the Neues Rathaus at Marienplatz, specializing in Bavarica, art and philosophy.
Independent Munich bookshop at Rumfordstrasse 48, run by Regina Moths since 1994; curates fiction, art, design, and nonfiction with no bestseller racks, and hosts readings and exhibitions.
Munich independent English-language bookshop in the university quarter since 1985 — 10,000 titles and a reading cafe.