Books of Sweden

Malmo

This family-run English-language bookshop on Davidshallsgatan is kept by Tiffany and Marcus, who stock handpicked titles and host book clubs, readings and live music in its intimate space. Copies sit on the shelves in-store and can be reserved or ordered as curated bundles online.

Best for Bookshop, English-language books, book clubs, live events

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Malmö

Inside a historic building on Malmo's Lilla Torg, Form/Design Center keeps a shop of locally produced design and craft alongside a specialised art and architecture bookstore run with Konst-ig. Glass, jewellery, posters, toys and interior pieces fill the shelves, and the same selection can be ordered through its web shop.

Best for Design shop, craft objects, art & design books, glass, jewellery

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Stockholm / Sweden

Billed as Sweden's largest children's bookshop, Junibacken's store on Djurgården stocks picture books and classics mostly in Swedish, alongside titles in other languages, posters, dolls, and soft toys. Its in-store Archive lets visitors borrow books to read on the spot or join weekday read-aloud sessions.

Best for Books, childrens-books, toys

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Stockholm / Sweden

The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities imports much of its shop's stock directly from Egypt, including hand-blown recycled glass, brass lanterns, and cotton shawls woven in villages in the south of the country. Alongside gilded ibis figurines made in a small Cairo family workshop and ceramics from Fayyoum, the shop also carries soaps from Aleppo and a browsable selection of books.

Best for Museum-shop, home-decor, textiles, glass, ceramics

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Stockholm / Sweden

Inside the Nobel Prize Museum on Stortorget in Stockholm's Gamla Stan, the shop sells books, jewelry, and souvenirs tied to the Nobel Prize and Alfred Nobel, including a Fairtrade dark-chocolate medal made exclusively for the museum. It is in-store only, with no online sales, though members receive a 20% discount at the till.

Best for Museum shop, books, jewelry, souvenirs

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Stockholm / Sweden

At Rosendals Trädgård's newly renovated farm shop on Djurgården, shelves are stocked with sourdough bread and pastries baked daily in the on-site wood-fired bakery alongside biodynamic vegetables and fruit grown in the surrounding garden. The shop also carries its own line of preserves, oils, and jams, plus books and ceramics from local craftspeople.

Best for Bakery, farm produce, preserves, ceramics

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Södermannagatan 22, Stockholm

The English Bookshop's Stockholm branch offers English-language book shopping in the Sofo district of Södermalm, on Södermannagatan 22. It first opened in Gamla stan in 2008 before moving to the location listed by the shop today. The branch also offers newsletter sign-ups for reading-group invitations, providing a way to follow its local literary activities.

Best for English-language books and Stockholm reading-group events

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Stockholm / Sweden

Waldemarsudde's Museum Shop and webshop, run from the former royal residence at Prins Eugensväg 6 on Djurgården in Stockholm, is known for the WALDEMARSUDDEKRUKAN flowerpot that Prince Eugen designed in 1915 and that has been sold as a souvenir since the 1950s. Alongside the pot, still produced at Porslinsfabriken in Lidköping, the shop carries exhibition catalogues, postcards, and a curated selection of books and handicrafts largely made in Sweden and Europe.

Best for Museum shop, handicrafts, home goods

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Haga (Husargatan)

Antikvariat Rode Orm has traded second-hand and antiquarian books from Haga's historic quarter on Husargatan since 1986. Its shelves run from 16th- to 18th-century volumes and fine bindings to maritime history, chess literature and vintage children's books.

Best for 16th- to 18th-century books, bindings and maritime literature

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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

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Umeå / Sweden

Tráhppie is a Sami cultural house in Umeå run by the Såhkie association, combining a café serving reindeer meat and local specialties with a small shop selling Sami handicraft, silver, and books. The space also hosts exhibitions and events celebrating Sami culture, with the shop reachable through staff on-site or by contacting Helene Rönnholm directly.

Best for Sami Handicraft, Café, Cultural Center

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