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Bookworm
One of the epicentres of Běijīng expat life. Apart from its lending library of 14,000 books, the 'worm has a small but interesting selection of new English-language fiction and nonfiction tomes available for sale. You can find Lonely Planet guides here, as well as UK and US magazines. Also hosts lectures, a classical music club and a poetry reading night. Any author of note passing through town gives a talk here.
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Cathay Bookshop
There are several branches of the Cathay Bookshop on Liulichang. This branch (Gǔjí Shūdiàn), on the south side of Liulichang Xijie opposite Róngbǎozhāi, is worth checking out for its wide variety of colour art books on Chinese painting, ceramics and furniture, and its range of books on religion (most books are in Chinese). Upstairs has more art books, stone rubbings and antiquarian books. The store takes MasterCard and Visa.
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Foreign Languages Bookstore
Shelves here groan with English fiction; Chinese literature in translation, Lonely Planets, and the best range of 'Learn Chinese' materials in the city.
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Xidan Bookshop
The titles at this absolutely vast bookshop (Běijīng's largest) are largely Chinese, but the basement is home to what might be the city's best selection of English-language titles. There are all the classics, Austen, Dickens, Hemingway, Twain et al, but there are also books on China that have slipped past the beady eye of the censor, as well as an expanding range of new fiction. You can pick up Lonely Planet guides and maps of Běijīng here too.
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