Plate M-4 · 909 stores · 601–750 of 909 · curated ORBIS register
Librería Picasso carries art and poetry among its books in Almería, where the independent shop has traded since 1976. Lido Village Books combines bookselling with storytimes and community events on Via Lido in Newport Beach, also taking orders online. Lighthouse Bookshop focuses on radical politics and LGBTQ+ writing in Edinburgh, with book fairs and other events extending its bookselling programme.
This plate lists 909 shops in 100 countries. Paris has the most with 27, followed by Tokyo with 15. Among these shops, 5 offer repairs, 63 sell online and 3 work by appointment, going by their own descriptions.
Search by ISBN before you travel: ask the shop to confirm that the exact edition and language you want are on the shelf.
Ask about signed or limited copies: ask how a signed or numbered copy is documented and how it will be packed.
Ask about collection or delivery: an online listing is not proof a title is in the shop, so ask before making the trip.
Check access before you go. The American Book Center says every floor of its Amsterdam shop on the Spui is reached by lift, while only the ground floor of its shop in The Hague is accessible.
Use the city plates when they appear below, or open any store for its official door and related ORBIS city and craft links.
Church Street, Bengaluru
Blossom Book House fills multiple floors on Church Street with new and second-hand titles across every genre. The independent bookstore has become a Bengaluru fixture for book lovers.
Best for New and used books across every genre
King Street
King Street bookshop dealing in used, rare, and new titles with strong Southern history, Lowcountry, and fiction sections. It co-hosts YALLFest, Charleston's annual young-adult literature festival that draws thousands to Marion Square.
Best for Used and rare Southern books
Columbus, Ohio
An independent Columbus bookshop selling curated new and used titles in a relaxed reading-room setting. It leans on personal recommendations and neighborhood events.
Best for Curated new and used books
Uptown
Blue Cypress Books is an independent bookstore in a converted shotgun house, specialising in used, rare, and local books. At Uptown, the range centers on used rare and local books in a converted shotgun house.
Best for Used rare and local books in a converted shotgun house
Maastricht / Netherlands
Set inside a 13th-century Gothic Dominican church, this independent Maastricht bookshop shelves its stock in a multi-storey steel bookcase beneath restored ceiling frescoes. It carries books, CDs and vinyl in store and ships orders across the Netherlands.
Best for Bookshop, books, vinyl, independent
Norrk Ping
Östergötland's largest antiquarian bookshop, Bok-Galleriet spreads some 125,000 titles across 600 square metres on Kristinagatan in Norrköping. Alongside books it deals in comics, vinyl, coins and stamps, and keeps a small café corner and exhibition hall.
Best for Antiquarian books, comics, vinyl records, coins, stamps
Ibadan
Bookcraft Africa is a publisher and bookshop chain headquartered in the Bodija district of Ibadan. It runs stores across several Nigerian cities and also accepts manuscript submissions from new authors.
Best for Books and manuscript submissions
South Street, Fowey
An independent bookshop on South Street shortlisted for the British Book Awards' Independent Bookshop of the Year in 2022, with strong Cornish, children's and general-fiction shelves. Booksellers' recommendations and special orders anchor its place in the town.
Best for New books and Cornish titles
Charlottetown
Independent bookseller trading on Queen Street since 1972, Bookmark hand-sells new fiction, Atlantic-Canadian titles and children's books and runs a steady calendar of author events. The family-run store keeps a sister shop in Halifax while anchoring downtown Charlottetown's literary life.
Best for Independent bookshop and Atlantic-Canadian titles
Liguanea, Kingston
Opened 2008 Book Store Website Notes Bookophilia, an Independent bookstore & cafe located in Kingston Jamaica, noted for book launches, signings, art exhibitions and a great selection of books.
Best for Books
Cobble Hill
Books Are Magic is the independent bookstore opened by novelist Emma Straub, stocking new fiction, children's titles and a busy calendar of author events. Its Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens shops are known for handwritten staff recommendations.
Best for Handwritten staff recommendations and author events at novelist Emma Straub's bookstore
265 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134
Books & Books is an independent, locally-owned bookstore owned by Mitchell Kaplan for over 40 years, with its original flagship store on Aragon Avenue in Coral Gables. The shop stocks new and signed titles, runs an on-site café, and hosts regular author events and readings.
Best for New and signed books, café stops and author readings
Otaki Village / New Zealand
Books & Co is an independent bookshop in the heart of Otaki on the Kapiti Coast, with a strong children's selection alongside fiction, non-fiction, puzzles and games. It runs an Odoo web shop for direct online orders and stocks gifts from blankets and mugs to soaps for shoppers in store.
Best for Bookshop, children's books, gifts, puzzles, games
The Pruneyard, 1875 S Bascom Ave
Founded in 1851 and billing itself as the West's oldest independent bookseller, this Bay Area company opened its Campbell store at The Pruneyard in 2017. The shop carries new fiction, children's books and gifts, and hosts author events across a family of about a dozen Northern California locations.
Best for New fiction, children's books and gifts
Books Inc. traces its story to 1851, when Anton Roman, an immigrant from Central Europe who had struck gold at Shasta City, opened a bookstore there. He moved it to Montgomery Street in San Francisco in 1855. Alex Robertson inherited the business in 1882, rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake and fire, and ran it until 1924. Leon Gelber and Ted Lilianthal followed on Sutter Street. In 1946 Lew Lengfeld bought the store and gave it the name Books Inc. Lengfeld died in 1996 as national chains arrived on the West Coast. The company closed ten of twelve stores and entered Chapter 11, emerging in August 1997 with four shops under Michael Grant and Michael Tucker. Tucker led the company until 2019, when Andrew Perham, with the firm since 2010, took over. The Campbell store trades at 1875 S. Bascom Avenue, Suite 600, in the Pruneyard. In January 2025 Books Inc. again filed for Chapter 11, citing rising costs and the shift to online buying. In September 2025 it asked the bankruptcy court to approve a sale to BI Acquisition Co., a Barnes & Noble affiliate, for 3.25 million dollars. KQED reported that the nine remaining stores would keep the Books Inc. name. The company's own website now carries the Barnes & Noble copyright and describes its beginnings in the Gold Rush days of 1851.
City Centre
Books Upstairs was opened in May 1978 by Maurice Earls and Enda O'Doherty above a furrier on South King Street. After years at 36 College Green it moved in 2015 to a Georgian building at 17 D'Olier Street. The rooms hold new and secondhand stock, and the shop runs a cafe and literary events. Louisa Earls joined the family business with the move.
Best for A literary café and event space at Dublin's long-running bookshop since 1978
Books Upstairs was established in 1978 and is regarded as Dublin's oldest independent general bookshop, occupying a series of interconnecting rooms spread across three floors in two adjoining buildings on D'Olier Street, just south of O'Connell Bridge. The layout reflects the building's age and piecemeal expansion over the decades rather than a single planned retail fit-out, giving the shop a warren-like character as customers move between rooms and levels of general fiction, Irish interest, poetry and children's titles. Upstairs, the shop runs a café with a large original window overlooking D'Olier Street, a space that doubles as an informal reading room and has made the store a fixture of Dublin's literary and event scene, hosting readings and launches over more than four decades of continuous trading. The bookshop has been recognized by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature as part of the city's literary landmarks, cited alongside the capital's better-known literary institutions despite its comparatively modest size. Now well into its fifth decade under continuous independent ownership, Books Upstairs has maintained its identity as a general bookshop through a period in which many comparable independents in central Dublin closed, making its survival as much a part of its story as its stock.
Port Harcourt
Bookville World is an online bookstore based on Ezimgbu Link Road in Port Harcourt. It sells titles across fiction and business categories, and features a monthly Book of the Month pick.
Best for Fiction and business books
Pacific Grove / United States
Family-run since Margot and her daughters took over about a decade ago, BookWorks pairs 6,000-plus titles with a Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Co. coffee bar near Lover's Point. It's been voted Pacific Grove's Best Bookstore nearly every year since 2015.
Best for Coffee bar near Lover's Point
Since 1980, BookWorks has anchored Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove, a few blocks from Lover's Point Beach. Roughly a dozen years ago, three women — Margot and her daughters — took over the shop, folding a coffee counter into the stacks and turning it into the combination bookstore and cafe it is today. The shelves hold more than 6,000 titles, weighted toward new releases, bestsellers, and children's literature, with a dedicated section on local history for browsers curious about the Monterey Peninsula. A case near the register stocks puzzles, puppets, games, and stationery alongside the books. The coffee bar pours Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Co.'s organic beans and steeps Rishi's organic loose-leaf teas, giving regulars a reason to linger past the new-arrivals table. BookWorks runs its own author series, "To the Lighthouse," bringing writers in for readings and discussion, and gives wall and counter space to work by local artists. The recognition has been consistent rather than occasional: readers have named it Best Bookstore in Pacific Grove in 2015 through 2018 and again every year from 2020 through 2025, plus a 2025 nod for best bookstore for new books. For a town of this size, that's a long, unbroken run of local loyalty — the kind that comes from a shop people actually return to, not just visit once.
Stow On The Wold / United Kingdom
The Borzoi Bookshop has traded from the center of Stow-on-the-Wold for more than 40 years, stocking a wide range of books alongside greeting cards, gifts and wrapping paper. Staff will source unusual or specialist titles on request, and the shop also runs an online store for home delivery.
Best for Independent bookshop
Milwaukee / United States
Boswell Book Company is a full-service independent bookstore on North Downer Avenue in Milwaukee, known for a busy calendar of in-store author events and shelves of staff recommendations. Beyond books it stocks gifts, puzzles, and its own branded merchandise, with online ordering through IndieCommerce.
Best for Bookstore, Books, Gifts
Shadwell, Basseterre
Bougainvillea Books and Gifts operates from a cottage on the grounds of the Shadwell Great House in Basseterre. It sells books across genres including fiction, poetry and children's books, along with pottery, aromatherapy and greeting cards.
Best for Caribbean books and gift shopping
Flagstaff, Arizona
This independent bookshop at 18 North San Francisco Street sells new and curated titles and hosts author events and staff-pick shelves in downtown Flagstaff. Orders can be placed for in-store pickup or home delivery.
Best for New and curated books with author events
Northampton Ma / United States
A fixture on Main Street in downtown Northampton, Broadside is packed with fiction, poetry, nonfiction and children's books along with cards and gifts. Titles can be ordered through its online store or browsed on the shop's crowded shelves.
Best for Bookshop, new books, gifts & cards
Bratislava
The Bratislava shop stocks 204 international magazine titles and 949 books spanning design, architecture, culture and business, plus stationery and accessories. Its inventory is described as combining design, culture and pop titles with business and critical-thought reading.
Best for Curated magazines and design books
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Browseabout Books has traded on Rehoboth Avenue since 1975. The independent bookstore pairs its shelves with a selection of local gifts.
Best for Independent books & local gifts
515 Main Street, Deer Lodge
Open since 2001 on Main Street, this Montana-focused new and used bookshop carries paperbacks, rare titles and audiobooks alongside toys, soaps and regional odds and ends. Rare books can be viewed by appointment in a back room, and staff will track down titles not on the shelves.
Best for Montana books, used and rare titles
Graz / Austria
Bookshop focused on fiction and children's and young-adult books, with a selection of newspapers and magazines.
Lister Meile
An independent bookshop on the Lister Meile for more than sixty years, Leuenhagen & Paris keeps a broad general list and runs its own small publishing programme. Regular author readings and events make it a neighbourhood gathering point.
Best for General books and author events
Salzstrasse, Freiburg
An independent bookseller on Salzstrasse near Augustinerplatz that combines new titles with an antiquarian section and rotating art exhibitions of framed prints. Monthly recommendations, readings and mail order round out the shop's literary programme.
Best for Curated books, antiquarian volumes and prints
215 N. Cayuga St, DeWitt Mall, Ithaca, NY
Buffalo Street Books is an independent Ithaca bookshop where browsing the shelves sits alongside a programme of literary events. Its activities connect readers with authors and local organisations, giving the shop a role beyond selling individual titles. Staff recommendations and community gatherings help readers explore unfamiliar books or return to subjects they already enjoy.
Best for Independent bookselling and literary events in Ithaca
Martha’s Vineyard / United States
Bunch of Grapes is an independent, locally owned bookstore at 23 Main Street in Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard, open daily. It sells books online and in-store and hosts a Martha's Vineyard author series and other events.
Best for It sells books online and in-store and hosts a Martha's Vineyard author
Seminole Drive Southwest, Huntsville, Alabama
Burnwater Books is a locally owned Huntsville bookshop at 2211 Seminole Drive Southwest curating fiction and nonfiction centered on the poetic and philosophical sides of the human experience. The store sells online and through mobile pop-up events and lists its stock through Bookshop.org to route sales to independent booksellers.
Best for Literary fiction with a philosophical bent
Greenport, NY
This independent bookshop at 43 Front Street has anchored Greenport's village center for roughly fifty years, run today by proprietor Scott Raulsome. Its shelves lean into local subjects such as nautical history, regional cookbooks, and poetry, alongside a dedicated children's and young-adult section.
Best for Browsing a true small-town independent bookstore
Buxton
This independent bookshop on Highway 12 keeps a dedicated Hatteras Bookshelf stocked with Outer Banks novels, island histories and guides to fishing local waters. Alongside the regional titles it carries maritime writing, children's books and seafood cookbooks from the Carolina coast.
Best for Regional Outer Banks books and local histories
Cairns
Cairns Books is a locally owned independent bookshop specialising in Far North Queensland titles alongside fiction, children's books, travel and foreign-language stock. It is the official local stockist for Paperblanks journals.
Best for Far North Queensland regional titles
High Street, Chipping Campden
A contemporary art gallery on the High Street showing painting and sculpture by artists including Jeremy Annear, David Atkins, and Deborah van der Beek. It runs a changing exhibition program and publishes catalogues alongside the work on view.
Best for Contemporary art gallery on the High Street showing painting and sculpture
Capitol Hill, Washington
Capitol Hill Books, at 657 C Street SE in Washington, DC, stocks three floors of used books, first editions and rare books. Its Rare Book Department in Hyattsville, Maryland, shared with sister company Bookstore Movers, catalogs over 6,000 items with an emphasis on Literature, Americana and Antiquarian material.
Best for Used and rare books
Snow Hill / United States
Caprichos Books is an independent bookstore in Snow Hill stocking new releases, local authors, and audiobooks alongside gift merchandise, with staff-curated lists like its mystery-themed Clues and Brews book club. The shop sells in person and ships online, holding items for pickup once an order is confirmed in stock.
Best for Bookstore, Independent Bookseller, Local Authors
Chișinău
One of Moldova's leading independent publishers, Cartier issues Romanian-language literature, poetry, and translated works and runs its own Chișinău bookshops. Its collection and poetry series are fixtures of the country's contemporary literary scene.
Best for Romanian-language books
Strada Lipscani (Old Town)
Cărturești Carusel is the bookshop that opened in February 2015 at 55 Lipscani Street in Bucharest's Old Town. Square One's interior introduced mezzanine balconies beneath a central skylight after the building's restoration. Its bookselling spaces occupy a building with earlier banking and retail uses, distinct from the history of the wider Cărturești chain.
Best for Books and the restored architecture of a Bucharest bookshop
Cărturești Carusel opened on 12 February 2015 at 55 Lipscani Street in Bucharest's Old Town. The building had belonged to the Chrissoveloni family and underwent restoration before its conversion into a bookshop. Its earlier banking and retail uses are part of the building's history, not the founding story of the Cărturești chain.
Square One designed the bookshop interior following the restoration work. Mezzanine balconies reduced the reach required for the tall shelving and created six levels, including the basement. White balustrades, older decorative columns and daylight from the central skylight give the reading and browsing areas their shared setting.
Interior Design's 2016 account described books, music and film sections, a top-floor café and space for cultural events. Those opening-era details explain how the store was conceived without fixing today's stock count or programme. The main reason to visit remains the combination of browsing books and moving through the adapted building. Allow time for the levels rather than treating the entrance as the whole shop.
Bengaluru
Independent bookstore at 7/1 Edward Road in Bengaluru's Vasanth Nagar, with a second branch in Indiranagar, selling books from India and around the world alongside a library for children up to age 12. The Vasanth Nagar store is accessible only by stairs, with no elevator.
Best for Books and a childrens library
Decatur (Agnes Scott College)
Founded in 1974, Charis is the oldest independent feminist bookstore in the South, now sited on the Agnes Scott campus in Decatur.
Best for Feminist, LGBTQ and independent literature plus community events
Middle Street, Latin Quarter
Charlie Byrne's fills the Cornstore on Middle Street with more than 100,000 new, secondhand, bargain and antiquarian titles, with deep sections in Irish literature and history. Founded in 1989, it has grown into a mainstay of Galway's reading life.
Best for Irish and secondhand books
Mountain Brook (Crestline Village)
Cal and Heather Morris have run Church Street Coffee & Books in Mountain Brook's Crestline Village since 2011, pairing espresso with personally recommended books. Its Breakup Cookie has become the shop's signature order.
Best for Breakup Cookies and owner-recommended books
Church Street Coffee & Books has served Birmingham's Crestline Village since 2011, run by Cal and Heather Morris alongside a team of baristas and bakers. The pairing of coffee and books isn't incidental branding — the shop leans into it directly, inviting customers in for "the perfect book recommended by Cal," a personal curation model rather than a stocked-shelf approach to bookselling.
That curated instinct extends to what people actually order at the counter. The shop's most talked-about item is the Church Street Breakup Cookie, described on its own site as "famous" — the kind of specific, named signature that a thin generic description would have missed entirely. Book orders that go beyond what's on the shelves route through the shop's Bookshop.org storefront, keeping the business connected to the wider independent-bookstore network even as its physical footprint stays small.
Open daily from 6am to 6pm at 81 Church Street in Mountain Brook, the shop functions as a genuine hybrid — not a coffee shop that happens to sell books, or a bookstore with an espresso machine bolted on, but a space built around both halves getting equal, deliberate attention from its owners.
Logan Square / Online
City Lit Books is an independent general-interest bookstore at 2523 N Kedzie in Logan Square, reopened under new ownership in 2021. The shop pairs staff-curated shelves with book clubs and author events for adults and younger readers.
Best for Independent bookselling, events and community programs
Étival-Clairefontaine / Online
Paper mill founded in 1858 by Jean-Baptiste Bichelberger in Etival-Clairefontaine on the Meurthe river in the Vosges, on a site with papermaking history dating to a 1512-authorized mill. Clairefontaine added envelopes in 1880 and notebooks soon after, and still manufactures there today.
Best for Smooth fountain-pen-friendly school paper from the 1858 mill
Clairefontaine's paper mill was established in 1858 by Jean-Baptiste Bichelberger in Etival-Clairefontaine, in the Vosges department of northeastern France. The site had a much older papermaking lineage: in 1512, a mill was authorized on the nearby Valdange stream, producing handmade paper into the mid-19th century. Bichelberger's operation drew on rags supplied by the region's textile industry and grew quickly into one of the area's most significant factories. The company began manufacturing envelopes in 1880 and expanded into notebooks not long after, building the schoolbook and stationery lines prized among fountain-pen users. More than 165 years later, paper production continues on the same site.
Hincks Street, Bridgetown
Cloister Bookstore has been operating for over 50 years. It has locations on Hincks Street in Bridgetown, at Sheraton Centre and at Dome Mall.
Best for Bookstore chain over 50 years
Punta Gorda / United States
An independent bookstore in downtown Punta Gorda since 2012, Copperfish Books sells new and used titles, runs active book clubs, and gift-wraps purchases for free. The shop at 212 W. Virginia Avenue also ships books nationwide and stocks audiobooks and e-books through its website.
Best for Books & Stationery
Glastonbury / Online
Courtyard Books is a Glastonbury bookseller specialising in rare occult and esoteric titles, from Crowley and alchemy to weird fiction and Norse runes. Its online shop is organised by press and subject, carrying small-press imprints such as Scarlet Imprint, Three Hands Press and Tartarus Press.
Best for Occult-books, esoteric, rare-books
14 Church Street
Crow Bookshop sells used books alongside new titles and publishers' remainders on Burlington's Church Street Marketplace. Keith Terwillegar started the shop in 1995, and its stock covers subjects from art history to zoology. Readers can look for staff selections as well as secondhand finds at the Church Street shop.
Best for Used books and publishers' remainders in Burlington
Corolla Village, Outer Banks, North Carolina
The nonprofit Outer Banks Conservationists steward the 1875 red-brick Currituck Beach Lighthouse, which visitors climb up 220 steps beside the Whalehead estate. A museum shop at the base sells lighthouse-themed books and gifts, with admissions funding the tower's ongoing restoration.
Best for Heritage lighthouse climb and museum shop
Ocracoke Island / United States
Set in an 1898 island home shaded by live oaks, Books to be Red is Ocracoke's independent bookstore paired with Deepwater Pottery, offering curated titles alongside locally made pottery and handmade gifts. Shoppers can visit the School Road store or order books through the shop's Bookshop.org page.
Best for Bookstore, pottery, handmade gifts, local craft, gift shop
Rue du Travail, Ouagadougou
The bookstore's website lists books, stationery, office equipment and magazines among roughly 50,000 products from about 200 suppliers, including brands such as Bic, Canon, HP, Brother and Epson. It operates from more than 1,500 square meters of retail space in Ouagadougou plus a location in Bobo Dioulasso, citing over 40 years in the business.
Best for Books stationery and office supplies
Green Street, Dingle
Dingle's independent bookshop on Green Street carries new titles with a strong shelf of Irish-interest, Kerry and Irish-language writing. It hosts readings and orders in requests for a peninsula readership.
Best for Irish-interest books
Mission District
Dog Eared Books focuses on Neighbourhood independent bookstore on Valencia Street with a curated selection and local focus.
Best for Dog eared books
Waterfront Shops, Duck, NC
Housed in a 1921 hunting cottage on Currituck Sound, Duck's Cottage has sold coffee and Outer Banks books since 2002. Jamie Anderson, who ran the bookstore from day one, bought the shop from co-founder Allen LeHew in 2023.
Best for Coffee and Outer Banks books inside a 1921 former hunting cottage
Duck's Cottage occupies a building that dates to 1921, when New York investors built it as the Powder Ridge Gun Club — a hunting cottage that remains, by the shop's own account, the only hunt club ever built in the town of Duck, and one of its oldest surviving structures. The original layout held three bedrooms, one bathroom, a kitchen with an attached porch, a shared living-dining room and a screened front porch, plus outbuildings for guides and a boathouse. Its last private resident, known locally as 'Duck' Braithwaite, became a local fixture for sunset gatherings on the property with his wife, Betty.
In 2002, childhood friends John Power and Allen LeHew converted the cottage into a coffee-and-bookshop, bringing in Jamie Anderson to run the book side from the start. LeHew ran the espresso machine for nearly two decades before retiring to the mountains and selling the business to Anderson in 2023 — a handoff that kept the shop within its founding circle rather than passing to an outside buyer.
Today the shop, at 1240 Duck Road in the Waterfront Shops on Currituck Sound, pairs a curated stock of bestsellers and Outer Banks-specific titles with coffee poured by a barista staff whose combined experience the shop puts at more than 114 years — depth unusual for a shop of its size.
Downtown Bend (NW Minnesota Ave)
Dudley's has sold books over coffee on NW Minnesota Avenue in downtown Bend for more than fifty years, since 1973. The two-floor shop pairs new and used titles with a cafe, keeping the feel of an independent neighbourhood bookstore.
Best for New and used books with coffee
Bull Street, Savannah (Historic District)
E. Shaver runs an independent bookstore from a historic Bull Street building in Savannah's Historic District. Signed editions and curated titles fill its rooms.
Best for Signed editions and curated titles in a historic Bull Street building
Main Street
This Main Street shop stocks new fiction, island histories and children's titles, and will order in whatever it doesn't have on the shelf for in-store pickup. Staff recommendations and a steady run of author events keep it tied to the year-round Vineyard reading community.
Best for Summer reads and island titles
Capri town
Founded in Capri in 1989 by Ausilia Veneruso and Riccardo Esposito, La Conchiglia publishes and sells books devoted to the island's history, writers and dolce-vita past. Its bookshops stock island memoirs, photographs and reprints found nowhere else.
Best for Books about Capri and island culture
Santa Fe, Recoleta / Online
Shelves now fill a former theatre whose boxes, ceiling frescoes and stage remain visible. The old stage functions as a café, so browsers can pause without leaving the auditorium-like interior.
Best for Books, music and café service inside the former theatre
La Paz
El Baúl del Libro promotes reading through a selection of books covering multiple fields of knowledge at an affordable price. The shop ships throughout Bolivia, offers delivery within the city of La Paz, and can special-order books it does not have in stock.
Best for Affordable books shipped across bolivia
Avenida Central, San Juan del Sur
El Gato Negro is a cafe that roasts coffee on the premises daily and serves smoothies, sandwiches and salads. It also includes a bookstore and is located in San Juan del Sur.
Best for Coffee cafe with bookstore
Asunción
Paraguayan family bookseller that began in 1971 when Pablo Burian started selling books from a kiosk by Plaza Uruguaya. It now operates 12 branches across Paraguay and Panama, organised Paraguay's first book fair in 1980 and established its own publishing house in 1982.
Best for Books
Kenyatta Lane, Nakuru
Ereto Bookshop ltd's Facebook page carries the quote: "Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all." No further detail about the shop appears in the visible text.
Best for Books and reading
Luxembourg / Luxembourg / Online
Ernster is a family bookshop founded in Luxembourg City in 1889, today running eleven shops and two cafes across the country. It sells books in four languages plus games, stationery and educational materials through its shops and an online store with a multi-million-title catalogue.
Best for Books, stationery, games
Palermo (Honduras 5582)
Eterna Cadencia pairs an independent bookstore of more than 40,000 fiction and essay titles with its own publishing house on Palermo's Honduras street. A café, Bar Eterno, and a literary blog extend the shop into a gathering place for Buenos Aires readers and writers.
Best for Literary fiction and essays, Argentine publishing
Piassa
Ethiopian calendar shop focuses on Ethiopian calendars, 13 months of sunshine.
Best for Ethiopian calendars marking the country's distinctive 13-month year.
Old Town Eureka
Eureka Books sells new books alongside used and rare editions in Old Town Eureka. Its shop on Second Street has traded since 1987, with a catalogue that also includes collectible books and prints or maps. Browse the online subjects before visiting if you are searching for a particular field or an older edition.
Best for New and collectible books in Old Town Eureka
Old Town, Bratislava
Ex Libris x GMB is an art bookshop on the ground floor of Mirbach Palace at Františkánske nám. 11 in Bratislava, part of the city's cultural scene for almost thirty years, selling publications on visual arts, architecture, design and culture. It also stocks GMB exhibition catalogues, children's literature, Slovak fiction and small gift items.
Best for Art and architecture books
Downtown Aspen (E Main St)
Set in a historic Victorian house with a bistro upstairs, Explore has sold curated books and hosted author events since 1975. It has long been part of Aspen's cultural life.
Best for Curated books and literary events
Videgatan 3A, Linköping
Exura buys and sells secondhand books spanning four centuries from its shop on Videgatan in Linköping, with stock running from Nobel laureates and classic fiction to children's books, crime and philosophy. New titles are added to the shelves every week, and the shop also lists inventory through the Swedish marketplace Bokbörsen.
Best for Four centuries of secondhand books — from Nobel laureates to crime
Osijek / Croatia
Ezop Antikvarijat has served Osijek since the early 2000s, buying and selling second-hand books, school textbooks, vinyl records, CDs, comics and old postcards. Its current Županijska 19 shop is complemented by an active online catalogue, preserving the feel of a neighborhood antiquarian bookseller while making its used-book and record stock searchable beyond Osijek.
Best for Used books, vinyl records, comics, postcards, antiquarian
Fabriano / Marche / Online
Paper since 1264 — the Marche mill that taught Europe watermarks, still making artist paper and notebooks. Official + inItaly: a 1264 notarial deed now at Matelica records purchase of notebooks of Fabriano paper. Official history dates Fabriano watermarks to 1293 (inspired by wool-makers' marks).
Best for Artist paper from the oldest mill in Europe.
Punta Arenas
Faunagona’s nature-focused paper goods include fauna origami, a bird book and wildlife postcards.
Best for Books
Boulevard de Waterloo
Described as Belgium's largest independent bookshop, Filigranes carries more than two million titles spanning literature, comics, humanities, travel and fine art on Boulevard de Waterloo. It opens seven days a week and keeps a cafe among the shelves.
Best for Broad general and literary stock
Nottingham
Five Leaves is an independent general bookshop in central Nottingham, strong on poetry, politics, fiction and international writing and known for a busy events programme. It can order any book in print, usually within a day or two, with payment on collection.
Best for Bookshop, independent books, poetry, politics, cards
Pondicherry / India
Open since 1995 on Mission Street next to the Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Focus is Pondicherry's largest bookstore, stocking fiction, Tamil literature, philosophy and reference titles alongside toys, stationery and souvenirs. Thirty years in business have made it the city's go-to stop for both residents and visiting readers.
Best for Books, Stationery, Toys, Gifts
Pleasant Hill / United States
Friends Book Store is a nonprofit used bookstore in the Casa Del Sol Shopping Center in Pleasant Hill, selling books, CDs, vinyl records, and board games with proceeds supporting the Pleasant Hill and Contra Costa County libraries. The store is open daily and also sells inventory through its online shop.
Best for Bookstore, Used Books, Nonprofit
St Edward's Passage
Founded by French emigre Gustave David in 1896, G. David trades in antiquarian and secondhand books, remainders and fine bindings from St Edward's Passage. The shop buys private libraries and single volumes and is still run by successors of the original market-stall bookseller.
Best for David trades in antiquarian and secondhand books
Gustave David, a thirty-six-year-old Parisian, began buying and selling books on the Cambridge Market in 1896. As trade grew he opened a bookshop with his son Hubert David in St Edward's Passage, where the business still stands. The market stall ceased trading in 1981, but the shop continued to flourish in its passage off the market square. Today the firm is run by Gustave's great grandson David Asplin and his business partner Neil Adams. David joined in 1968 and Neil in 1979, and between them they count over 100 years of bookselling in Cambridge. The stock ranges across antiquarian books, including first editions of works by Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, and natural history and travel books with engravings. Second hand books fill the general shelves, and new books are sold at reduced prices. Antiquarian prints and maps form a further department, with a large collection of original engravings of Cambridge and its colleges and thousands of prints and maps on other subjects. The shop remains a meeting place for bibliophiles from many countries, and it continues to buy single volumes and whole libraries from private sellers.
Residential Quarter / Online
Gazelli House is a retailer in Baku for gazelli skincare and cosmetics, books, candles, wellness objects and selected lifestyle goods.
Best for Gazelli skincare and cosmetics, books, candles, wellness objects and selected lifestyle goods
Stockbridge
Golden Hare Books is an award-winning independent bookshop on St Stephen Street in Stockbridge, with face-out displays, a wood-burning stove and a busy events programme. Booksellers curate literary fiction, poetry, art and children's titles.
Best for Curated literary fiction
Bexley, Columbus, Ohio
Gramercy Books is an independent bookshop in Bexley founded by author Linda Kass. The shop's programme includes conversations with writers and book discussions alongside its selection for readers. Checking its event listings can help you combine a book-buying visit with a talk that interests you.
Best for Independent bookselling and author events in Bexley
Centro / Juliana Insfrán 3562, Asunción
Guaraní Raity is an Asunción bookseller specializing in books, dictionaries and audiovisual materials about the Guaraní language and culture, with titles in Guaraní as well as English, German and Portuguese.
Best for Guaraní-language books, dictionaries and audiovisual culture.
Collingwood (294 Smith Street) / Online
Happy Valley’s shelves move between new books, independent magazines, vinyl, prints and compact design gifts. Online orders can be collected in store, and purchases are wrapped in unbleached brown paper.
Best for Books, independent magazines, art prints, records, design objects and gifts
Via Serlas, St. Moritz
The internationally gallery's St. Moritz outpost with art books, editions, and design objects. Exhibition catalogs from their global program. A cultural oasis amid the luxury boutiques.
Best for Art books, editions, and design objects
Evergreen Parkway, Evergreen
HearthFire is an independently owned bookstore on Evergreen Parkway that pairs a curated selection of titles with locally made, sustainably sourced art and other goods. It serves readers across the Evergreen mountain community west of Denver.
Best for Curated books and locally made gifts
Edgewater
This Edgewater shop deals in used, rare, and antique books, from signed first editions to leather-bound antiquarian volumes shelved floor to ceiling. Collectors come for its cases of literary and illustrated rarities alongside affordable secondhand reading copies.
Best for Signed first editions and leather-bound antiquarian books
Koyasan, Wakayama, Japan
This Koyasan shop specializes in scroll mounting and religious goods, stocking Buddha statues, prayer beads, sutra books, and the stamped temple books pilgrims collect at each stop on the mountain's circuit. It also sells hanging scrolls and sutra-copying supplies tied to the temple town's devotional routines.
Best for Mounted scrolls, goshuincho stamp books, and religious implements
Kent, Connecticut
This North Main Street bookshop stocks new fiction, regional history, and children's titles, anchoring a town that pulls weekenders from across Litchfield County. Author readings and signings keep the front tables turning over, and staff picks lean toward books with a strong sense of place.
Best for Independent new-book selection and author events
Kajulu, Kisumu
House of Tengo is a community library and bookshop in Obwolo, Kajulu, Kisumu East, holding over 15,000 books spanning fiction, non-fiction, academic texts and reference material. The library opened on July 15, 2025, and the bookshop launched separately, announced February 11, 2026.
Best for Books and audiobooks
St Ives / United Kingdom
Hudson on Fore Street offers hand-selected homeware and gifts, along with toys and stationery.
Best for Homeware, gifts and toys
New Haven / United States
Connecticut's full-line independent art-supply store since 1947, Hull's on Chapel Street in New Haven stocks fine-art, printmaking, drawing and model-building materials plus custom on-site framing. It offers in-store shopping, local delivery and a direct online store.
Best for Art supply store, framing, stationery
harbour, Ilulissat
The shop of the Cultural History Museum sells arts and crafts as well as books. The adjoining Art Museum says it is the only place to buy original, signed artworks by Greenlandic artists, along with art books and postcards.
Best for Signed art by greenlandic artists
Yorkville
Flagship Indigo location inside the Manulife Centre at 55 Bloor Street West, on the edge of Yorkville, whose layout and design were personally overseen by Indigo founder and CEO Heather Reisman. Includes a dedicated event space used for author talks, book launches and signings.
Best for Books, lifestyle gifts and frequent author events at the Toronto flagship
Indigo Bay and Bloor is the flagship store of Indigo Books & Music, Canada's largest book retailer, located inside the Manulife Centre at 55 Bloor Street West, on the western edge of the Yorkville shopping district in downtown Toronto. Unlike a standard mall-format branch, this location is described in retail and design coverage as the chain's showcase store, with its layout personally overseen by Indigo founder and CEO Heather Reisman. Alongside its book, stationery and gift sections, the store includes a dedicated events space that hosts author talks, panel discussions, book launches and signings, giving it a public-programming role beyond straightforward retail. The store sits steps from Bay subway station and a short walk from the Bloor-Yonge interchange, with underground parking available through the Manulife Centre, making it one of the more accessible and heavily trafficked Indigo locations in the city. As with other Indigo stores, the assortment spans English-language fiction and nonfiction, children's books, journals, home and lifestyle goods, and gift items, reflecting the chain's broader shift from a pure bookstore model toward a lifestyle-retail format.
Black Church Area / Online
INSPIRATIO is a design-and-gift studio beside Brașov’s Black Church, at Curtea Johannes Honterus 8. Its team curates art, limited-edition gifts, Romanian-made pieces and souvenirs tied specifically to the Black Church and Transylvanian history, geography and gastronomy.
Best for Romanian craft, gifts, books and regional design
Corolla Village, Outer Banks, North Carolina
Island Bookstore's Corolla branch occupies a two-storey building near Currituck Beach Lighthouse in Historic Corolla Village. The independent bookseller carries general reading and local-interest titles, alongside books about travel and other subjects. This branch offers two floors to browse, while the wider business also operates elsewhere on the Outer Banks.
Best for General reading and Outer Banks books in Corolla
Island Bookstore's Corolla branch occupies a two-storey building in Historic Corolla Village, close to Currituck Beach Lighthouse. The building was designed on the footprint of an earlier general store, recalling that structure without being the original shop itself. Its position beside Historic Corolla Chapel places it within the village rather than along a generic shopping strip.
Inside, the bookseller offers general reading as well as titles connected to the surrounding Outer Banks. Fiction and local-interest books sit within a broader range that extends to travel and practical subjects. Two floors give the Corolla branch space for browsing beyond a single display of holiday reading.
The company also operates at other Outer Banks locations, so the Corolla address matters when planning a visit. A report about a different branch should not be read as a description of this building. For someone staying nearby, the useful distinction is between choosing a book about the area and finding something unrelated to read during the trip. The general bookshop format allows either approach within the same visit.
160 E Broadway, Eugene, Oregon
Run by the same couple who opened it in 1975, this Broadway shop hand-selects books with real depth in art, architecture, photography, cookery, and antiquarian titles. The stock is curated rather than comprehensive, favoring quality over volume.
Best for Hand-picked art and antiquarian books
Chipping Norton
Jaffé & Neale launched in Chipping Norton in 2001 and moved in 2006 to 1 Middle Row on the Market Square. Booksellers Polly Jaffé and Patrick Neale pair new titles with a café serving coffee and cakes, and the shop won Independent Bookshop of the Year in 2007. Author events, a book club and gifts fill out the trade.
Best for Independent books, coffee, cake and author events
Polly Jaffé and Patrick Neale met in the travel section of Waterstones in Bristol in the early 1990s and count over 70 years of bookselling between them. They arrived in Chipping Norton in 2001 with three sons and took over The Bookshop Chipping Norton. Jaffé & Neale Bookshop launched in West Street that year. In 2006 they bought the present premises at 1 Middle Row. The building was large enough for the second part of their plan, a place where people could meet and talk surrounded by books. The shop won Independent Bookshop of the Year in 2007. Its focus from the start has been good books and good customer service. The team likes nothing better than talking to a customer about what to read next. A café serves coffee and cakes at tables placed to watch the comings and goings of the Market Square. Cards, stationery and gifts are chosen from a range of small brands. Patrick has been President of the Booksellers Association and helps people who want to open a bookshop. Polly sits on the Children's Bookselling Committee and looks after the children's section. Newsletters carry news of forthcoming titles, a book club and signing events at the store. The owners describe their aim as holding onto the traditional values of high street bookselling.
Śródmieście
An independent bookstore specializing in English-language books, albums and art books. Established 1992.
Best for English-language books, albums, and art books since 1992
Jak Wam się podoba is a compact, twenty-square-metre bookshop on the corner of Wilczej and Emilii Plater streets in central Warsaw, close to the Palace of Culture and Science. Since opening in 1992, in the first years after Poland's transition away from state socialism -- when independent bookselling and access to foreign-language titles were still new freedoms -- the shop has built a reputation as an intimate alternative to Warsaw's chain bookstores, deliberately avoiding the dense, standardized shelving typical of larger retailers. Its stock centers on illustrated and art-focused books: albums on art, photography, fashion, architecture, design, and cuisine sit alongside pop-culture titles, English-language fiction, and children's and young-adult literature spanning both contemporary and classic titles. The shop's small footprint and hand-picked selection have made it a recurring favorite in local 'best bookstore' readers' polls in Warsaw, valued less for breadth of stock than for the specificity of its curation.
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
This antiquarian bookshop keeps more than sixty thousand listed titles, with particular depth in nautical and marine literature and Atlantic Canadian history. It fills a large space on Main Street in Dartmouth, across the harbour from Halifax.
Best for 60,000-plus antiquarian titles strong in nautical literature and Atlantic Canadian history
Wilhelmstrasse, Freiburg
An independent bookshop, antiquarian dealer and small publisher on Wilhelmstrasse, run collectively for more than five decades and now owned by a nonprofit staff association. Its shelves lean toward literature, politics, feminism and international titles, with a busy programme of readings and events.
Best for Literature and political non-fiction
Fairhill
Housed inside Taller Puertorriqueño at 2600 N. 5th Street, this bilingual bookstore is, by its own account, the only one of its kind in Philadelphia specializing in Puerto Rican culture while carrying literature and art from across Latin America.
Best for Bilingual Puerto Rican books in Philadelphia
Julia de Burgos Bookstore operates inside Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia's Puerto Rican and Latino cultural arts organization, at its home on North 5th Street in the Fairhill/North Philadelphia area known locally as El Centro de Oro. Named for the Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos, the shop describes itself as the only bookstore of its kind in the city — bilingual, and built around Puerto Rican culture specifically while stocking literature and materials from across Latin America.
Shelves mix English- and Spanish-language books with merchandise made by local artists and artisans, giving the space a role beyond retail: a showcase for community makers alongside a source for books that are hard to find in mainstream Philadelphia stores. It functions as an extension of Taller Puertorriqueño's broader mission — proceeds from sales go directly back into the organization's after-school programs, youth artist initiatives and community events, so a purchase here supports the same cultural center that houses the shop.
For visitors, it's a chance to combine browsing with a look at Taller Puertorriqueño's gallery and programming, in a shop that treats bookselling as part of a wider community cultural mission rather than a stand-alone business.
Debrecen, Hungary
Karakter 1517 is an independent bookshop and café in a glass building behind Debrecen's Reformed Great Church, opened in 2015 above the surviving remains of the medieval András Church. It stocks Christian and independent titles, gifts and board games alongside coffee.
Best for Christian books, board games and coffee above medieval ruins
Liosbán, Tuam Road
Founded by Des and Maureen Kenny in 1940, this Galway bookseller handles new, secondhand and rare books alongside a gallery of contemporary Irish art and a bindery running since 1974. It moved from its long-time city-centre premises to a larger space on the Tuam Road.
Best for Rare and Irish-interest books
CBD
Sydney flagship of the Japanese Kinokuniya chain, opened 1996 in Neutral Bay and relocated to The Galeries on George Street, Sydney CBD, in 2002. Stocks over 300,000 English, Japanese and Chinese titles, plus manga and stationery.
Best for Japanese manga and stationery bookshop.
Books Kinokuniya opened its first Australian store in 1996 in the Sydney suburb of Neutral Bay, later relocating to its current flagship location at The Galeries shopping centre on George Street, in the Sydney CBD, around 2002. The store carries an inventory of more than 300,000 titles across English, Japanese and Chinese, alongside an extensive manga and graphic novel selection, art and design books, cookbooks, travel titles and children's literature. Chinese-language books and magazines are sourced from both Taiwan and mainland China. Beyond books, the Sydney store houses a dedicated stationery section, an in-store art gallery space, and a cafe.
Zona 10, Guatemala City
KitaPenas Books & Bistro is a Guatemalan bookshop and bistro with a broad catalogue spanning Guatemalan authors, art and film, biography and memoir, science fiction, classics, comics and graphic novels, personal development, management and business, poetry, translated and Hispanic-American fiction, children's and young-adult books, crime, horror, romance and historical novels.
Best for Books
Besides its shop at Rambla 10 in Zona 10, KitaPenas lists two more branches in Guatemala City. They are in the Cayalá and Oakland Place shopping centres. Search the online catalogue for a title first, then ask the nearest branch whether it has a copy.
Podgorica
Knjižara Pčelica sells children's books, adult books, school supplies, educational toys and gift items at Vranići bb in Podgorica, positioning itself as a place that nurtures love of reading, learning and play.
Best for Childrens books and school supplies
Multiple
Czech stationery brand since 1790 — coloured pencils, artist supplies, and writing instruments.
Best for Coloured pencils stationery 1790.
Pécs
Konyvfalo is a roomy secondhand bookshop and antiquarium in the centre of Pecs, by the Zsolnay statue, buying and selling used books across every subject. Customers browse the well-stocked shelves in person or order directly through the site.
Best for Secondhand books, antiquarian books
Dadaocheng / Datong
A family-run independent bookstore in a restored Japanese-era shophouse on Dihua Street. The family enterprise began here as Kuo Yi-mei general store in 1922 and was later converted into a bookstore by the founder’s grandson.
Best for Independent bookstore in a restored 1922 Japanese-era shophouse on Dihua Street
Old Town, Bratislava
Kut Museum Shop occupies the courtyard of the Stará radnica on Primaciálne námestie in Bratislava. It opened in April 2026 and sells ceramics, books, notebooks and other goods from about 25 local designers, brands and publishers, alongside museum exhibition publications.
Best for Ceramics and design goods from local Slovak makers
BF Homes, Parañaque
Kwago is an independent bookstore, publishing lab and cultural space.
Best for Independent books, a publishing lab, and cultural events
Obrajes, La Paz
Independent Obrajes bookshop in La Paz offering books, graphic art and fanzines.
Best for Books
Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France
La Galerne has traded as an independent general bookshop on Rue Victor Hugo since 1982, now holding around 70,000 titles across 1,300 square metres with a staff of specialist booksellers. It hosts roughly a hundred author signings and literary events a year and runs an on-site café.
Best for Independent bookshop with author events and a wide general catalogue
Sabana Grande, Caracas
La Gran Pulpería del Libro Venezolano is a bookstore in Caracas founded in 1981 by a historian from Trujillo state named Rafael.
Best for Venezuelan bookstore founded in 1981
Villa Morra / Andrade 689, Asunción
La Oficina del Libro is a bookshop at Andrade 689 in the Villa Morra area of Asunción. Its sections include self-help and personal development titles among the other books it sells.
Best for Books
Ferrara (Via de’ Romei)
An independent bookshop on Via de' Romei that combines books with an exhibition space and a workshop, stocking new, used and out-of-print art, design and illustrated titles. It also sells handmade paper, hand-carved stamps and ex libris, and runs watercolour courses and custom framing.
Best for Independent art bookshop and paper goods
Via Canonica
La Tarlatana is a printmaking studio and shop on Via Canonica where hand-pulled artistic prints and handmade stationery are produced. Cards, notebooks, and limited-edition prints are made and sold on site.
Best for Hand-pulled prints and stationery
Wazemmes
Le Bateau Livre has run an independent bookshop in the Wazemmes district since 1988, filling roughly 200 square meters that include a dedicated 100-square-meter children's section. The shop mixes literature, comics, and practical titles with in-store author events and staff reading recommendations.
Best for Independent bookshop with a strong children's and literature selection
Church Street, Inverness, Scotland
Leakey's Bookshop has been family-owned and run in Inverness since 1979, and is billed as Scotland's largest secondhand bookshop, dealing in used and antiquarian books, maps and prints. It occupies a former church on Church Street, with a wood-burning stove at the center of the reading floor.
Best for Secondhand and antiquarian books, maps, prints
St Louis / United States
Left Bank Books is a longtime independent bookstore on North Euclid Avenue, running a busy calendar of author events and book clubs alongside its curated new-release and staff-pick shelves. The store sells both in-person and through its own e-commerce site, with audiobooks, gift certificates, and signed editions available online.
Best for Bookstore, Gifts
Timișoara / Romania
Legătorie Artistică has bound, restored and printed books from its Timișoara workshop for more than 30 years, handling everything from thesis binding to the recovery of old church manuscripts. The shop on Strada Izlaz also runs a print house for stationery, promotional materials and custom publishing.
Best for Bookbinding & Paper Craft
Sheridan Avenue, Cody
Legends Bookstore is Cody's independent bookshop, stocking regional guides to Yellowstone and the Tetons, Western fiction including Craig Johnson's Longmire novels, plus puzzles and children's books. The Sheridan Avenue store curates a strong local-interest shelf and hosts author events.
Best for Regional books and Western fiction
Jackson, Mississippi
Lemuria Books has run as an independent bookshop in Jackson since founder John Evans opened it in 1975, building a reputation around Southern literature, signed first editions, and author events. The shop now occupies its longtime Banner Hall space and remains tied to Jackson's literary community, including ties to the Eudora Welty House.
Best for Signed first editions and Southern literature
Lemuria Books is an independent bookstore in Jackson, Mississippi, opened by John Evans in 1975 in a converted apartment in The Quarter on Lakeland Drive. Two years later it moved to Highland Village along the I-55 North frontage road, where it stayed for eleven years. In 1988 it crossed the interstate into Banner Hall, where it remains. The shop specialises in signed first editions, and its First Edition Club has run for more than 25 years. New hardbacks and paperbacks fill the main rooms and a children's section called OZ has its own space. Genres run from gardening to Zen and from history to music. The store's focus is literary fiction, with an emphasis on Southern writers. Half a century of signings has built relationships with authors, above all Jackson native Eudora Welty. Willie Morris, Barry Hannah, Ellen Gilchrist and Jim Harrison have read here. So have Richard Ford, Larry Brown, John Grisham, Greg Iles, Jesmyn Ward and Angie Thomas. Evans describes small business as a matter of adding value and taking part in the community. That means bringing in writers the staff love and supporting the writers Mississippi already has. Lemuria marked its 50th birthday on April 11, 2026, an anniversary reported by SuperTalk Mississippi, which called it one of the state's first independent bookstores.
West Main Street, downtown, Durham, NC
A cooperatively owned independent bookstore in downtown Durham carrying fiction, non-fiction, poetry, children's books, and graphic novels. Located at 116 W Main Street, it frames itself as a downtown gathering space run by neighbors and fellow readers.
Best for Community-owned browsing
Rémire-Montjoly
Lettres d'Amazonie is a bookshop at 510, rue Gaston Monnerville, Remire-Montjoly. Its stock runs from bande dessinee, mangas and children's books to literature, poetry and local Guyane titles, with young-adult and documentary sections.
Best for Books, bande dessinee and local Guyane titles
Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, France
The bookshop of the Arles publishing house Actes Sud occupies Le Mejan on the banks of the Rhone. It shares the setting with a cinema and cultural venue in one independent institution.
Best for Books and the Actes Sud cultural quarter
Algeria
This online bookstore sells novels, business and self-help titles, children's books and comics in French and English, delivering throughout Algeria. Customers pay cash on delivery.
Best for French and english books
Nantes / France
A Nantes antiquarian bookshop, Librairie Ancienne Richard buys, sells and appraises old and second-hand books, engravings and lithographs. Its stock is browsable at the Rue de l'Hotel de Ville shop and through its eBay store, and it belongs to the SLAM and ILAB rare-book leagues.
Best for Books, antiquarian, rare books, prints
Chauderon & Dorigny, Lausanne, Switzerland
Run as a self-managed cooperative rather than a franchise, Basta! stocks humanities and social-science titles across two Lausanne locations and regularly hosts author talks and book launches. Its alternative, collectively run structure has kept it outside the ownership of any larger book-retail group.
Best for Humanities and social-science books
Algeria
The shop sells and rents books alongside school and office supplies in Algeria. It operates from multiple locations.
Best for Books and school supplies
Caen (126 boulevard Maréchal Leclerc)
Eureka Street is an independent bookshop on boulevard Maréchal Leclerc with a wide stock spanning literature, crime, science fiction, comics, art books and children's titles. It runs its own online store and carries both French and original-language editions.
Best for Fiction, crime, sci-fi and comics
Avenue H. Bourguiba, Carthage Dermech
An independent general bookshop on Avenue H. Bourguiba in Carthage Dermech, Tunisia. It can be reached at [email protected].
Best for General interest books
Chambery, boulevard du Theatre
Librairie Garin is an independent Chambery bookshop stocking literature, children's books, comics, crime and fantasy, poetry, travel and art titles across its boulevard du Theatre premises. It hosts author events and signings from the heart of the city.
Best for General-interest and independent bookselling
Dijon (place Grangier)
An independent bookshop and stationer on place Grangier in central Dijon, Librairie Grangier carries a broad general catalogue and posts regular staff reading recommendations. It pairs books with a papeterie department in the heart of the pedestrian quarter.
Best for General books and stationery
Caen city centre (98 rue Saint-Pierre)
Librairie Guillaume has sold books from 98 rue Saint-Pierre in central Caen for generations, stocking literature, essays, foreign fiction and graphic novels with a strong staff-recommendation culture. It runs author events, reading workshops and a reserve-and-collect service.
Best for French and international literature
Orleans / France
Librairie Jaune Citron is an independent bookshop-gallery on rue des Carmes in Orleans specializing in illustrated books and comics for adults and children, chosen for their graphic qualities. The space doubles as a gallery, hosting illustration exhibitions and creative workshops around the book.
Best for Bookshop, gallery, illustrated books, comics, art prints
Passage Vivienne / 2nd
Antiquarian bookshop in the Galerie Vivienne, one of the passage's original tenants when it opened in 1826 as Librairie Petit-Siroux. Acquired in 1890 by the ancestor of current owner Francois Jousseaume; sells rare books, prints and engravings across two units facing each other.
Best for Rare books and old-world atmosphere in Passage Vivienne
Librairie Jousseaume occupies two shopfronts facing each other inside the Galerie Vivienne, the neoclassical covered passage in Paris's 2nd arrondissement that opened in 1826. The bookshop was one of the gallery's original tenants, first trading under the name Librairie Petit-Siroux. In 1890 the business passed to an ancestor of the current proprietor, Francois Jousseaume, whose family has run it since and whose name it has carried ever since. Now among the oldest continuously operating bookshops in Paris, it deals largely in secondhand and antiquarian material: books dating back to the 19th century, prints, engravings, postcards and paperbacks.
Nîmes / France / Online
Lacour-Olle is a historic Nimes bookshop, stationer and gift house selling fine pens, crystal, bronzes, chess sets, santons and art sculptures. Its online boutique carries the same eclectic range, from esoteric titles to Yves Lohe bronzes, backed by the family's own publishing house.
Best for Books, stationery, gifts, art objects
Route Sidi Mansour, Sfax
Located on Route Sidi Mansour Km 6 in Sfax, this shop sells educational materials from primary through BAC level, including summaries, problem sets, homework and revision sheets, plus school supplies. Orders can be placed in paper or digital format with home delivery in 48 to 72 hours.
Best for School textbooks and revision materials
Centre-ville, Cayenne
Librairie Siloé Sel et Lumière is a religious bookshop in Cayenne, located 100 meters from the Cathedral. Staff are available to listen to customers and offer advice.
Best for Religious books near the cathedral
Centro
Librería Agustín is a historic bookshop with Andalusian literature.
Best for Andalusian literature at a historic bookshop
Oviedo / Online
Libreria Cervantes runs an Ourense-region Spanish bookshop whose site carries new releases, bestsellers, and an extensive comics section alongside curated reading lists. Its catalogue ranges across literature, poetry, gothic fiction, and children's books.
Best for Books, comics, literature
Ponce
La Librería El Candil cuenta con más de 14,000 libros de Puerto Rico y el mundo, ofreciéndole a nuestros clientes la mejor selección. Estamos ubicados en la Calle Unión, Esquina Sol, a una cuadra de la Plaza Pública en Ponce.
Best for Books
Las Cuadras / M.I. Belzu, Cochabamba
Cochabamba shop for art materials and school and office supplies, including paints, brushes, drawing paper, pencils and markers.
Best for Books
Los Chorros, Caracas
Librería Kálathos is a bookshop and café located in the Centro de Arte Los Galpones in Caracas.
Best for Bookshop and cafe in art center
Murcia / Spain
Libreria La Candela is a Murcia bookshop specialising in second-hand and out-of-print titles across dozens of subjects, from regional Murcian history to art, science and religion. Buyers can browse by category and order directly through the site or visit the shop on Avenida de los Pinos.
Best for Books, second-hand books, antiquarian
Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo
Librería La Trinitaria is a bookstore specialized in selling books by Dominican authors. It was founded on November 22, 1968.
Best for Books by dominican authors
Zona 1, Quetzaltenango
Bookshop in Quetzaltenango identified by Libreria Loyola as Casa del Libro, with a catalogue covering Bibles, books and handicrafts.
Best for Books
Casa del Libro is the Quetzaltenango shop of Librería Loyola, at 7a calle 10-46 in Zona 1. Librería Loyola's own shop is a separate branch in Zona 1 of Guatemala City, with its own telephone number. Ask the Quetzaltenango shop directly about a title before making the trip.
Alameda Principal / Online
Luces maintains an active programme of readings, launches and literary conversations alongside its Málaga book floor. Online ordering complements the physical shop, but the event schedule gives visitors a reason to check dates before arriving.
Best for Independent Málaga general bookshop
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