Bookstores
Simply click on any of the listings below to find the best place for your budget in the right neighborhood!
Note: All establishments that have a pink fleur-de-lis are part of our Girls' Guide Travel Club collection. They are places where you can receive special discounts, VIP treatment or valuable offers exclusive to Girls' Guide Travel Club members. Find out more here.
Abbey Bookshop
Canadian-run shop with Anglo-American and Canadian books, and a large secondhand section.... » Read more
Type: Books
In the 5th Arrondissement
Artazart Design Bookstore
As the name suggests, Artazart is a design bookstore hawking hardbacks (and paperbacks) in subjects ranging from photography to fine art to architectu... » Read more
Type: Books
In the 10th Arrondissement
Arty Dandy
This trendy left bank concept store has a creative mix of contemporary design books, furniture and jewelry.... » Read more
Type: Books, Jewelry
In the 6th Arrondissement
Colette
This is the destination store for art, fashion, shoes, accessories and books. Colette remains the place where fashionistas come to see what&... » Read more
Type: Art, Books, Clothing, Shoes
In the 1st Arrondissement
Galignani
This is a grand institution, claiming to be the first store in Europe to offer English-language books. Today more than half of its 50,000 books are in... » Read more
Type: Books
In the 1st Arrondissement
I Love My Blender
Small, idiosyncratic shop whose owner, Christophe Persouyre, used to work in advertising. Not only books—all originally written in English, with... » Read more
Type: Books
In the 3rd Arrondissement
Les Bouquinistes
Booksellers have been selling their wares along the Seine for nearly 500 years. You can peruse the used or antique books and posters from the quai du ... » Read more
Type: Antiques, Books
In the 1st Arrondissement
Librairie des Femmes
At Librairie des Femmes, visitors will find books written by women, about women and for women. The bookstore is part of a larger women’s collect... » Read more
Type: Books
In the 6th Arrondissement
Merci
The most fashionable charity store in Paris is a three-story loft stocked with ready-to-wear clothing, beauty products and home decor oftentimes creat... » Read more
Type: Books, Clothing, Handbags, Perfume
In the 3rd Arrondissement
San Francisco Book Company
This bookstore has entirely secondhand stock of English-language reads in hardcover and paperback. It’s dusty and a bit haphazard, so if you&rsq... » Read more
Type: Books
In the 6th Arrondissement
Shakespeare & Company
If you only go to one bookstore in Paris, this should be the one. A very personal English bookshop opened some 60 years ago by George Whitman, an... » Read more
Type: Books
In the 5th Arrondissement
The Red Wheelbarrow
In the Marais, this bookstore is small and crowded but the staff is very friendly. It also has a children’s section.... » Read more
Type: Books
In the 4th Arrondissement
W. H. Smith
The Paris branch of the ubiquitous UK chain offers a huge selection of current Anglophone magazines and British best sellers. The children’s dep... » Read more
Type: Books
In the 1st Arrondissement