Guatemala City bookshop founded in October 1998 as a meeting place for readers and writers. Alongside a general selection strong in humanities and contemporary fiction, it runs a cafe and a cultural programme of reading clubs, workshops, book launches, screenings, talks and children's activities.
Antigua Books is located at 7 Av Sur #8-A in Antigua and is open 10am-6pm every day. It stocks new and used books in Spanish and English and ships throughout Guatemala.
Best for New and used books in spanish and english
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.
Bookshop in Quetzaltenango identified by Libreria Loyola as Casa del Libro, with a catalogue covering Bibles, books and handicrafts.
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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.