What is the best american bookstore in Paris France? Where is it located?

Question

What is the best american bookstore in Paris France? Where is it located?

Answer 1

Abbey Bookshop - La Librairie Canadienne

Address: 29, rue de la Parcheminerie, 75005 PARIS

Phone: [phone] ; Fax: [phone]

Métro: St-Michel (line 4, RER B), Cluny La Sorbonne (line 10).

E-mail: [e-mail]

Proprietor: Brian H. Spence

A Canadian bookshop around the corner from Shakespeare & Co., with lots of secondhand British and North American fiction, good social science sections, plus knowledgeable and helpful staff — and free coffee.

American University of Paris Bookstore

Address: American Church — 65, quai d'Orsay, 75007 PARIS

Phone: [phone] ; Fax: [phone]

Métro: Invalides (lines 8, 13, RER C), Pont de l'Alma (RER C).

E-mail: [e-mail]

Manager: Lisa de Valence

Store only carries textbooks requested by professors for AUP class curricula.

Attica

Address: 64, rue de la Folie Méricourt, 75011 PARIS

Mailing address: B.P. 239, 75524 Paris Cedex 11

Phone: [phone]

Métro: St-Ambroise (line 9), Oberkampf (lines 5, 9), Parmentier (line 3), Filles du Calvaire (line 8), République (lines 3, 5, 8, 9, 11). Bus: lines 46, 56, 96.

E-mail: [e-mail]

Proprietor/Manager: unknown

English books - Phone: [phone], e-mail: [e-mail]

The Book Cellar (no web site)

Address: 23, rue Jean de Beauvais, 75005 PARIS

Phone: [phone] ; Fax: [phone]

Métro: Maubert-Mutualité (line 10).

E-mail: unknown

Proprietor/Manager: unknown

Brentano's

Address: 37, avenue de l'Opéra, 75002 PARIS

Phone: [phone] ; Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Métro: Opéra (lines 3, 7, 8), Pyramides (lines 7, 14).

Proprietor: Chantal Bodez

Hours: Monday - Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Anglo-American literature, art books, magazines and newspapers. Book signings and events.

Galignani (no web site)

Address: 224, rue de Rivoli, 75001 PARIS

Phone: [phone] ; Fax: [phone]

Métro: Tuileries (line 1), Concorde (lines 1, 8, 12).

E-mail: [e-mail]

Director: Mme Marie Paccard

Hours: Monday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Fine arts, Anglo-American literature, guidebooks, newspapers and magazines. The oldest English bookstore on the continent.

Gibert Jeune

Address: 10, place St-Michel, 75006 PARIS

Phone: [phone]

Métro: St-Michel (line 4, RER B), St-Michel Notre-Dame (RER C). Bus: lines 21, 24, 27, 38, 85, 96.

Secondary location: 15bis, boulevard St-Denis, 75002 PARIS

Phone: [phone]

Métro: Strasbourg St-Denis (lines 4, 8, 9). Bus: lines 20, 38, 39, 47.

E-mail:

President: Bruno Gibert

Hours: Monday - Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Three million books sold every year (one in three is second-hand). Started as a bouquiniste in 1886 on the quai St-Michel; retail store was founded in 1888.

Nouveau Quartier Latin (no web site)

Address: 78, boulevard Saint-Michel, 75006 PARIS

Phone: [phone] ; Fax: [phone]

Métro: Cluny La Sorbonne (line 10).

E-mail:

Proprietor: Penelope Le Masson

The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore

Address: 22, rue Saint-Paul, 75004 PARIS

Phone & fax: [phone]

Métro: Sully-Morland (line 7), St-Paul (line 1).

E-mail: [e-mail] (or) [e-mail]

Proprietor: Penelope Le Masson; Assistant: Abigail Altman.

Hours: Monday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Recently under new management, this general literary English bookstore includes a large children's section. It also hosts some wonderful readings from international writers and poets.

San Francisco Book Co.

Address: 17, rue Monsieur-le-Prince, 75006 PARIS

Phone: [phone] ; Fax: [phone]

Métro: Odéon (lines 4, 10), Luxembourg (RER B).

E-mail: [e-mail]

Proprietor/Manager: Jim Carroll

Buy, sell and trade your English-language hardcover and paperback books at this Left Bank establishment, opened in 2005. Offers a variety of categories; some first editions and rare collectibles.

Shakespeare & Co.

Address: 37, rue de la Bûcherie, 75005 PARIS

Phone: [phone]

Métro: Maubert-Mutualité (line 10), St-Michel Notre-Dame (RER B).

E-mail: [e-mail]

Proprietor: M. George Whitman; Manager: Sylvia Beach Whitman (daughter)

Hours: 12 noon - 12 midnight every day.

This legendary Parisian book store sells used, antique as well as some new books. Though not at the original location of Sylvia Beach's famous store, it still attracts a crowd of would-be Hemingways.

Tea and Tattered Pages (no web site)

Address: 24, rue Mayet, 75006 PARIS

Phone: [phone]

Métro: Duroc (lines 10, 13).

E-mail:

Proprietor/Manager: unknown

Hours: 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. every day.

Fun little book shop run by a former Californian, selling used English-language books of every kind. There is also a cosy little café at the back of the shop offering simple refreshments.

Village Voice Bookshop

Address: 6, rue Princesse, 75006 PARIS

Phone: [phone] ; Fax: [phone] ; Minitel: 3615 VILLAGE VOICE

Métro: Mabillon (line 10).

E-mail: [e-mail]

Proprietor: Mme Odile Hellier

Hours: Monday, 2:00 to 8:00 p.m.; Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

High-quality bookstore, sponsors periodic literary events. Vast collection in modern and contemporary fiction, poetry and translations as well as works in the social and political sciences, philosophy, literary criticism, etc.

W.H. Smith

Address: 248, rue de Rivoli, 75001 PARIS

Phone: [phone] ; Fax: [phone] ; Minitel: 3615 SMITH

Métro: Concorde (lines 1, 8, 12).

E-mail: [e-mail] (or) [e-mail]

Manager: Stuart Walker

Hours: Monday - Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Sunday 1:00 to 7:30 p.m.

The only British-owned bookstore in Paris. Literature, guides, magazines and a good teaching resources section upstairs.

Answer 2

Although all of the bookstores mentioned are worth a look, one of my favorites is the Berkeley Bookstore, around the corner from the San Francisco bookstore. The owner was unbelieveably helpful and because the shop is not as overstuffed, it's more enticing to browse the shelves.

Answer 3

American - are there any? Probably the best-known *English language* bookstore is Shakespeare & Co. bookstore, located at 37, rue de la bucherie, off of rue St. Jacques in the Latin quarter (http://www.shakespeareco.org/). My guidebook says that it is inspired by another (now-gone) bookstore of Sylvia Beach... They have regular poetry readings (I attended a couple), both used & new English language books, a funky atmosphere, and will let you stay there in exchange for working there! On the 2nd floor, sometimes you'll see people napping, lol.... The staff are helpful and (in my experience) not pretentious.

There is WH Smith, an English bookstore, at 248 rue de Rivoli off of Place de la Concorde. It's a chain store and has that kind of selection... They have a decent selection of nonfiction reference-type books.

Answer 4

I'd recommend Shakespear and Co also for books written in english.